It's only 10:30am right now, but I have already gotten a little frustrated. I started my day by looking up the news and saw the different problems of the world. The poor are getting poorer every day and the rich are getting richer. I read a case about a boy who was able to escape justice because his insane wealth supposedly makes him unable to make good decisions. There is war, death, and hatred in the world and it will never stop. There's a part in the scriptures that talks about evil being called good and good being called evil that certainly applies to these days. Anything goes as long as that anything excludes religion or a set of morals that is unfashionable.
All of these things were weighing on my mind today. I talked to Jason about it and he gave me some very good advice. He told me that we cannot change the world and that we can only do good in our small corner of it but that the good that we do is important. I knew he was right but the weight of the world was still heavy in my heart. I felt the need to find further solace and oddly enough I found it on pinterest. On my quote board is a particularly beautiful quote from Sam in the second Lord of the Rings movie it goes like this,
"It's like in the great stories Mr. Frodo, the ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end it is only a passing thing, this shadow, even darkness must pass. A new day will come, and when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you even if you were too small to understand why. But I think I do understand, I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances to turn back, only they didn't. They kept going because they were holding onto something."
"What are we holding onto Sam?"
"That there is some good in this world Mr. Frodo, and it's worth fighting for!"
It can become so difficult to see the good when there is so much darkness in the world but the good is there. Though some may think of me as silly and antiquated I am so grateful to have a belief in God that keeps me going. Not only is He the light when the darkness passes but He is the light in the darkness. He is what keeps me going and I am so grateful for Him and I plan to keep fighting for the good in my small corner of the world.
