Pick Up Your Pity Party Favors

Sometimes we get so caught up in the consequences of our mistakes that we get stuck in our own little pity party. A pity party that only leads us down a path of self destruction. There is a process that we all go through when we have made a mistake. It is as natural as mistakes come to most of us. It is the grief process. You will go through denial, guilt, anger, depression, and reflection before you finally start to turn things around. Once you allow yourself to pass through these stages then you can start to heal and your mind will begin to help you pick up the pieces and accept your new reality. Don't allow yourself to get stuck in guilt, anger or depression.

Learn to forgive quickly or you may find yourself becoming a bitter, angry person, which is much different that being a person who is temporarily angry. A bitter angry person is one who has gotten stuck in the grief process and refuses to forgive. Forgiveness is work. It requires you submit to the realization that you have no power to save yourself from your mistakes, and there is only one who can bring you relief from your pain.

There is nothing so peaceful as to know that you are forgiven and that you have the power to forgive. There is nothing so beautiful as one who has been made clean through the power of the atonement. Life was never meant to be perfect. Sometimes our imperfections are our own, and sometimes our imperfect life comes because of others, but in the end much of the pain we feel today will mean nothing to us when we pass from this life to the next. Much of the sorrow and hurt that we found inflicted upon us will have no significant lasting effects upon us in the eternities.

A tree falls, a flower blooms, and tomorrow the sun will rise again.

So, stop getting depressed over your mistakes in life. You've had plenty of time to have your pity party. Now pick up your party favors, sober up and make a game plan on how you can show your gratitude for the atonement.