When life gives you lemons...

Sometimes it feels as though everything is on top of you, and that there is nowhere to go, sometimes it feels like things just keep getting thrown at you, and there is nothing you can do to stop them.

All throughout January, that's how I felt, like there was nowhere to go, and like the only thing for me to do was to jump on a plane, and escape my life... But, I realised, that is just obviously not possible, I have responsibilities, things that I need to, places I need to be, and people that I could be helping...

I remembered a saying: "When life gives you lemons, make grape juice..." This got me thinking, right at that moment things seemed too bad, like I couldn't cope, but, I had the choice to do something about it, I had the choice to turn my sour lemons into sweet grapes... 

Something that I do, is I try and do too much, for some reason, my life got to the stage where I was trying to do fifty things during the day, when I only had time for five really. But, I was lucky enough to go on a Missionary Seminar, when I found something in the scriptures, in Doctrine and Covenants 10:4. It says "Do not run faster or labor more than you have strength and means provided to enable you to translate; but be diligent unto the end." - This is talking about scriptures being translated, now, obviously I don't translate scriptures, but I do sometimes think that I can do more than I am able, which in the long run, turns out to be bad for me, and those I am trying to help...

In order to turn my sour lemons into sweet grapes, I listened to the council I read in the scriptures, and decided that I would do the things I was capable of, and be strong and diligent, and then try again the next day.

I also realised that sometimes we have to leave our problems on the floor at the front door, even if it's just for a day, this can help us remember how great life actually is. Picking them back up the next day is pretty lame, but, it's life, and I guess sometimes we have just got to deal with it. 

Life is beautiful, it's exciting, it's hard, but no one ever said it would be easy. There are things that will make it sour, and there are things that will make it sweet...

"When life gives you lemons, make grape juice" Then, when everyone asks how you did it, surprise them with how sweet things can actually be...