Trust.....

There are times in life when everything just seems so perfect.  Everything is going right.  Life is perfect and then suddenly for some reason its just not as great anymore. Does anyone else have those moments.  Well recently I did.  And really I was just really pitting myself(Not a good idea) Then I remembered a story told originally by Hugh B Brown but retold by Elder Christoffersen in a recent general conference....well more recent than Hugh B Browns'....it goes like this....

"He(Elder Brown) told of purchasing a rundown farm in Canada many years ago. As he went about cleaning up and repairing his property, he came across a currant bush that had grown over six feet (1.8 m) high and was yielding no berries, so he pruned it back drastically, leaving only small stumps. Then he saw a drop like a tear on the top of each of these little stumps, as if the currant bush were crying, and thought he heard it say:

"How could you do this to me? I was making such wonderful growth. ... And now you have cut me down. Every plant in the garden will look down on me. ... How could you do this to me? I thought you were the gardener
here."

President Brown replied, "Look, little currant bush, I am the gardener here, and I know what I want you to be. I didn't intend you to be a fruit tree or a shade tree. I want you to be a currant bush, and someday, little currant bush, when you are laden with fruit, you are going to say, 'Thank you, Mr. Gardener, for loving me enough to cut me down.'"

Years later, President Brown was a field officer in the Canadian Army serving in England. When a superior officer became a battle casualty, President Brown was in line to be promoted to general, and he was summoned to London. But even though he was fully qualified for the promotion, it was denied him because he was a Mormon. The commanding general said in essence, "You deserve the appointment, but I cannot
give it to you." What President Brown had spent 10 years hoping, praying, and preparing for slipped through his fingers in that moment because of blatant discrimination. Continuing his story, President Brown remembered:

"I got on the train and started back ... with a broken heart, with bitterness in my soul. ... When I got to my tent, ... I threw my cap on the cot. I clenched my fists, and I shook them at heaven. I said, 'How could you do this to me, God? I have done everything I could do to measure up. There is nothing that I could have done--that I should
have done--that I haven't done. How could you do this to me?' I was as bitter as gall.

"And then I heard a voice, and I recognized the tone of this voice. It was my own voice, and the voice said, 'I am the gardener here. I know what I want you to do.' The bitterness went out of my soul, and I fellon my knees by the cot to ask forgiveness for my ungratefulness"
"... And now, almost 50 years later, I look up to [God] and say, 'Thank you, Mr. Gardener, for cutting me down, for loving me enough to hurt me.'"
 ("As Many as I Love, I Rebuke and Chasten")

Life can be hard. Especially when we are not in charge.  But I know that God knows what he wants us to become.  He will help us there because he knows what is ahead for us and he will help us to get there.  Not always in the ways we imagine though.  Actually usually not at all in the way we imagined.  His way is the better way.  I know that great things happen when we have patience and trust.
 Elder Holland says
“Don’t you quit. You keep walking. You keep trying. There is help and happiness ahead.” Some blessings come soon, some come late, and some don’t come until heaven. But for those who embrace the gospel of Jesus Christ,they come. It will be all right in the end. Trust God and believe in good things to come."