Tonight I’m sharing some last thoughts related to the video podcast I posted yesterday on suicide, personal missions and faith. You can watch it here. I know, I know. When it comes to the Come Follow Me study guide we’re meant to be moving on to Romans. But the end of Acts has so much good stuff! And this is one of my favorite topics: Faith in hard times.

Basically, I have a few one-liners that bring me some comfort, hope and faith when I face hard times. Thinking these with hope can help my faith stay strong anyway.

We all have times that we aren’t super happy or grateful about our situation, our trials, our body, our family, our home, our callings, our progress or lack thereof…I could go on, but I think we all get it. While God wants to bless us, He also wants to see us become our best selves which means giving us space to fall, fail and with faith, rise up stronger.

Or to have a more humble or compassionate attitude.

It doesn’t mean we’ll have all the answers, but we’ll have enough for that next breath and baby step. That’s why it still takes faith to get through hard things.

I hope these thoughts can help you hold on when times are hard,and become even more beautiful and rich with experience for making it through the hard times!

Try on a few of these thoughts and see how you feel. I hope and pray you can feel Christ close!

I’d love to hear your hopeful thoughts too! What helps you?

Most of all, remember God loves you!