Courage

I had to speak at New Beginnings for the young women of my family's ward tonight (my mom happens to be the young women's president - that's why I was chosen). The mutual theme for this year is from Joshua 1:9 I believe. "Be strong and of a good courage, be not afriad, neither be thou dismayed - For the Lord thy God is with thee, withersoever thou goest." I absolutely love this scripture. It also happens to be the seminary theme from last year that we picked from seminary counsel - ironic? I don't think so.

For my talk at this fireside, I was suppose to talk about having courage while going off to college and getting married; because I'm such an expert on these two areas. But I believe it was a very successful talk - I made my mom and one of my former young women's leaders shed, or get close to shedding, a couple of tears. Very successful. I wanted to share one of the quotes I found while preparing for this talk... this morning :) Of all the quotes I found, this was my favorite -

"You don't develop courage by being happy everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity".