Fall by Faith

I was in the temple this week and had some new thoughts. I had been going through a tough time. It seemed like everything was going wrong at the same time. I was having doubts about what would happen to me, what I was going to end up majoring in, how was I going to feed myself, and to top it off I was sick as a dog. I had been shaky for the past couple of days, dry heaved that morning, my head felt like it would split in half, and I knew I had a ridiculously long day ahead of me. ( I didn't get home until 10:15 that night.) I was trying really hard to have a good attitude about my situation and keep moving forward when I had a thought:
Have you ever played trust? Where you fall backwards into someone's outstretched arms? Your play mate knows the outcome because they know they are capable of catching you and their own intent. You just have the struggle of believing that they will honor their word of catching you because you are going against your natural instincts. In a sense you are falling by faith. And once you fall, together you and your play mate lift you back up.
It is the same way with us trusting in God except we know he is much more capable of catching us because he is all knowing and powerful. Sometimes he lets us fall to grow. We have to trust that he will help lift us back up and grow from the experience. It seems so simple, yet we have the hardest time trusting him. We feel the natural force of gravity pulling us down, and we get too close to the floor for our comfort. But we must know that He is there to catch us when we fall. We are very much Never Alone.