I truly believe, at least for me, there is nothing better in this world that brings me more happiness than being with family. We know, and we learn from the scriptures that, “It must needs be, that there is an opposition in all things. If not so, righteousness could not be brought to pass, neither wickedness, neither holiness nor misery, neither good nor bad.” That has also been one of my favorite scriptures because if there wasn’t opposition we wouldn’t feel anything and wouldn’t know good from evil or happiness from being sad. Going back to the family, it brings me the most happiness but at the same time, when my family is stressed or we are in the middle of a family crisis, it brings me some of the most sorrow I’ve felt in my entire life.
Growing up, I remember that I was always happy when things in the family were going well. But the saddest I ever was, was when some people in my family weren’t getting along or something bad happened to someone in the family and it was making them sad. I hated contention within the family and I also did not like when something happened to one of my parents or siblings that made them sad. I think family crisis weighs on every individual of the family, but some more than others.
I have always heard the saying, “A mom is only as happy as her unhappiest child.” I truly believe this. Parents go through so much dealing with their children. I can only imagine. I feel like as a son and brother, I go through so many different emotions with what the rest of the people in my family go through. It’s definitely very interesting to take a step back and look at the whole family and how each family interacts and how distress and family crisis affects them.
I love the quote by Elder Joseph B. Wirthlin that was in the reading that said, “Each of us will have our own Fridays – those days when the universe itself seems shattered and the shards of our world lie littered about us in pieces. We all will experience those broken times when it seems we can never be put together again. We will all have our Fridays. But I testify to you in the name of the One who conquered death – Sunday will come. In the darkness of our sorrow, Sunday will come. No matter our desperation, no matter our grief, Sunday will come. In this life or the next, Sunday will come.” Going off of this, one of my favorite songs by Jake Scott is, Tuesdays. In this song, a young man falls in love with a girl and asks her dad for his blessing to marry his daughter. The lyrics of the chorus are, “He said 27 years and here’s my take away. It’s not just picture perfect, dancing in a white dress. It’s not just rainy days where nothing stops the fighting. It’s not just highs and lows and champagne toasts. I’ve come to know that love’s not only the best days or the worst days. Love is the Tuesdays.” I love this because to me it’s such a deep meaning. Yes, love will have it’s weekends and it’s Mondays but most of the days are going to be pretty average when things aren’t going 100% right but they also aren’t going too bad.
I think when we are under distress or in the middle of a family crisis, it’s important to remember that you have a family to help you get through it. Your family also loves you more than anyone. It may not seem like it from an external perspective I feel like but, internally and deep down, there are no bigger fans we have in our lives than the members of our family.
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