Why to How

Today was the first Sunday that I didn't have to work in about 3 weeks.
I must have needed to go to today's lessons because they really touched my heart.
In Sunday School we have an AWESOME teacher, Shannon. She shared a story about a daughter and a father. The dad was down in a well and asked his daughter to throw down his lunch. After she did, he suggested that she jump down into the well and eat lunch with him. She said, "I can't jump. I can't see where to land." The father responded by saying, "I can see you and I will catch you."
So she jumped.
The girl had so much faith in her father that she jumped and knew that he would catch her. As we get older I feel like that childlike faith wavers.
We are scared that we will be dropped. There is a fear that has developed through experiences.  Maybe we have jumped before and were dropped, or maybe we think a little too much about jumping.
The one thing that I thought of when she was saying this is that we shouldn't be scared, because we are jumping down to our Father. We should have complete faith in our Heavenly Father that he will be there to catch us anytime that we need him.

She also brought up that little kids ask the question WHY?
If you have ever been around a 3-4 year old you know it's the number one question being asked. We need to change that question from Why to HOW.
Instead of saying, "Why is this happening to me?" We should say, "I know what's happened, HOW can I overcome it?"
I know my Father in Heaven lives, HOW can I get back to him?

Yesterday, I was really struggling with the "Why has this happened?" question. Now that I have heard this lesson, I know that I can turn that Why to a How. It's not going to be easy, and it will take a lot of correcting myself. I figure, after I correct myself so many times eventually it will become easy, and I won't have to correct myself.

Everyone has sinned and nobody is perfect. At least not that I know of. We know what we have done, so How can we fix it. God has provided us with the Atonement that makes it so we can be forgiven of our sins. It's completely normal to sin. So stop procrastinating repentance. That's what I got from the lesson today anyways.
Our sins are like a huge mountain that we have to overcome. Staying at the bottom of the mountain is so easy, but eventually you have to climb the hill. Better sooner than later.

This song comes to my mind whenever I am having a hard day.

Remember that you aren't alone. It's all about perspective and changing your Why's to How's.