For 18 months, I've struggled with a very personal Trial.

I knew it was an opportunity to learn important lessons that would help me to grow...

but still...it was oh so difficult, painful and discouraging!

I tried to remember God's words and the teachings of His Son, Jesus Christ,

yet, at times, I felt weak...

I was reading in the Bible this afternoon and was reminded of God's perfect Love for me.

I had to share some of those tender reminders...

"Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart:

wait, I say, on the Lord."

-Psalms 27:14

"Hast thou not known? has thou not heard, that the everlasting God,

the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth,

fainteth not, neither is weary?

there is no searching of his understanding.

He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.

Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:

But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint."

-Isaiah 40:28-31

"Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me..."

-2 Timothy 4:17

"Have not I commanded thee?

Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed;

for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest."

-Joshua 1:9