In His Constant Care

Stella and I were shopping the other day when we came across this picture. We stopped and looked at it, And for the first time in the HISTORY of Stella. She was still, calm, and reaching for this picture among all other pictures. It is entitled "In His Constant Care." I couldn't help but smile after a few minutes of Stella's uncommon reverence.

This picture stuck with me the rest of the day, and I remembered a Devotional President Monson gave while I was at BYU. He stated that we are spiritual beings having a physical experience... and proceeded to quote the Lion King smile emoticon

"Look deep inside yourselves. Remember who you are. Remember."

Looking deep inside yourself to find your spiritual "DNA" can be a painful process. Searching the depths of the human soul for our identity also requires discovering some other unpleasant flaws and traits about ourselves along the way. When we search for truth about ourselves, God does not give us a partial answer. He will let us know who we are, Good and Bad. Many halt at this painful point of self discovery, declaring their ugly inner selves not worthy of anyone's care- let alone a perfect, holy, all powerful being! But they are stopping just short of the FULLNESS of truth, where we learn and understand why all of those imperfections ARE OK. Once we push past the doubt and despair of our personal weaknesses,and realize we have LIGHT within us that overcomes the darkness...then we feel the love and promise of Christ: which is that we are in His constant care! And when we understand that, all those painful character traits don't seem to hurt as much.

The principle of forgive and ye will be forgiven applies to forgiving ourselves too. the FULLNESS of Christ's atonement -love- cannot work on or in us... if we haven't forgiven ourselves. It is hard to feel the warmth of love from anyone if we are surrounded in a blizzard of self loathing and pity.

The reason I know this is because I have stopped short many times, and it is a CONSTANT rediscovery too! It is not just a one time process and you KNOW. In time, if you don't return to him, you may forget, and think that you just imagined the whole thing. But as we allow ourselves to come to him and fix our impaired DNA, we become stronger, and more like him.

Who are we? I believe we are precious children of a All Powerful Being who wants us to call him Father. And our Savoir Jesus Christ loves us as his precious children. We truly are in His constant care, and I think Stella knew that as she peacefully looked at this picture the other day.