Do not expect to find the perfect partner or the perfect marriage. As an agent, blessed with moral agency, you create the marriage, the family, and the happiness you hope to have line upon line, precept upon precept, pressing forward along the covenant pathway.
Young people, we know you have trials and struggles, but we also know that our faith in Christ provides perspective and allows us to feel joy even in the midst of sorrows.
God is always encouraging and applauding your pursuit. He wants you to be happy, to have true joy.
There is great power in taking small steps every day. We need to have faith and take one step a time, day after day, trusting the Lord that all will be well. Be lovingly persistent and stand with humble courage for the Lord’s cause. In His time, great things will come to pass.
Following the Savior will not remove all of your trials. However, it will remove the barriers between you and the help your Heavenly Father wants to give you.
God will be with you. He will walk beside you and even carry you when your need is greatest.
You cannot allow circumstances to make you sad. You cannot allow them to make you mad.
You can rejoice that you are a child of God. You can find joy and happiness in the grace of God and in the love of Jesus Christ.
You can be glad.