Burdens

At church on Sunday, there was a wonderful lesson about burdens. It has really helped me understand things better.

There are 3 types of burdens.

1. Mortality-burdens that affect us just from living on this earth: aging, physical, hunger, sickness, etc.

2. Misconduct of others-other's agency: crimes that are committed against us.

3. Our own mistakes, shortcomings: sins that we're responsible for.

We can really only be held accountable for #3. We are bound to have unfortunate things happen to us because we're human. But the more we can lesson our own shortcomings, the better off we'll be.

So many of my friends are going through a rough time right now. We will only be judged on our own mistakes and can only take others bad behavior and #2 pain from being a living person on this life (death) #3.

But with all the negatives in this world, the positives far outweigh our trials. We learn from our trials and become better. Smarter. I'm thankful for this wonderful life, my husband, kids, family and friends.

It's a wonderful world.