tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6103435633500701144.post4495926012398688738..comments2023-07-10T08:39:48.578-07:00Comments on Together for Taleah: Day +12-+13Stevenson Storieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04098692116702868065noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6103435633500701144.post-72662628356430525122014-06-30T02:34:21.554-07:002014-06-30T02:34:21.554-07:00I am Tara Esplin Alofipo's older sister and ha...I am Tara Esplin Alofipo's older sister and have been reading along as you go through this. I am amazed at all your sweet girl has to go through, and I so appreciate the insight of what it means for you as her mother and your entire family. I appreciate your honesty about the good and the bad. You are wise to just take it a day at a time. Maybe just am hour at a time. Many people are praying for all of you, and I hope you can feel those prayers when you need them most. I read something tonight that made me think of Taleah and I hope it helps somehow. It's from a talk Elder Holland gave in 1995. He said, "On some days we will have cause to remember the unkind treatment he received, the rejection he experienced, and the injustice—oh, the injustice—he endured. When we, too, then face some of that in life, we can remember that Christ was also troubled on every side, but not distressed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed (see 2 Cor. 4:8–9).<br /><br />When those difficult times come to us, we can remember that Jesus had to descend below all things before he could ascend above them, and that he suffered pains and afflictions and temptations of every kind that he might be filled with mercy and know how to succor his people in their infirmities (see D&C 88:6; Alma 7:11–12).<br /><br />To those who stagger or stumble, he is there to steady and strengthen us. In the end he is there to save us, and for all this he gave his life. However dim our days may seem they have been darker for the Savior of the world.<br /><br />In fact, in a resurrected, otherwise perfected body, our Lord of this sacrament table has chosen to retain for the benefit of his disciples the wounds in his hands and his feet and his side—signs, if you will, that painful things happen even to the pure and perfect. Signs, if you will, that pain in this world is not evidence that God doesn’t love you. It is the wounded Christ who is the captain of our soul—he who yet bears the scars of sacrifice, the lesions of love and humility and forgiveness." Heather Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10268990596908272532noreply@blogger.com