On The Tandem Bike

Now that I am a little more comfortable with my mother's happenings, I am back to working on trying to find Justin a job and us a new life. Yesterday I spent close to three hours going through every state's job banks as well as searching national job banks. The results...three jobs. Justin came home yesterday and said that there are a few guys who had job interviews but were called the night before and told that because of the economy they were putting a freeze on all hirers. How discouraging. So after a very "blah" day I decided to go to stake volleyball and take out a little frustration, it felt really, really good! Once I got home I just couldn't sleep. My thoughts kept turning back to Dad's now famous advice.

"Life is like a tandem bike. Sometimes you are on the front seat pedaling and steering. Sometimes you have to just hop on he back seat, pedal your little heart out and let the Lord do the steering."

As I laid in bed last night I just kept thinking, "I am pedaling, why aren't things happening like I want them to?" So, I then thought, maybe I will just step off the tandem bike and walk my own way. Stay with me on this, because it might be a stretch. And then it came to me. I am on the back seat, unaware of the exact direction the Lord is steering me and the destination he has planned for me. If I get off now, I will be lost. My only option is to stay on the tandem and continue the ride. What is a little frustrating is that the Lord is taking me on quite a few speed bumps, but ...

“No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to our education, to the development of such qualities as patience, faith, fortitude and humility. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we endure it patiently, builds up our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender and charitable, more worthy to be called the children of God … and it is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which will make us more like our Father and Mother in heaven. …” (Orson F. Whitney)

So, we will continue pedaling until the Lord sees fit to let us steer.