"Trust God No Matter What"

Darla Isackson is an author of books and articles that I have read often. She has written a book titled "Trust God No Matter What". I have not read it yet but did come across a quote from a Thanksgiving article she wrote that I wanted to share. Sometimes I have a difficult time listening to others speak about the challenges of life when it appears that they have no trials. I try to remind myself that everyone has their own crosses to bear, even if we cannot see them. But, I find it easier to believe in the words of others when I know that they have experienced challenges similar to myself. Darla Isackson is someone I can listen to and believe. She has been through the fire and survived. She has gone through a difficult divorce, struggled with depression, and had a son who was clinically depressed commit suicide. For this reason I find her words comforting and believable.

I’m Learning to Trust God No Matter What!

"I now see that the only thing that makes it possible to thank God in all things is to Trust God No Matter What! That’s the title of my book that documents many spiritual lessons I’ve learned. I now stand as a witness that the only course in life that makes sense is trusting God no matter what and thanking him in all things. There is no light on any other path. And once we’ve tasted the light, darkness is unbearable.

"I know now that I can trust God no matter what because God cannot lie. His scriptural promises are sure. When He tells us that “all things work together for our good” (repeated three times in scripture) and that “all these things shall give [us] experience, and shall be for [our] good.”(D&C 122: 7)—even though we can’t imagine how it could be true, it IS true because God cannot lie.

I see now that gratitude is the very heart of faith, the very soul of trust in the Lord. I am lost without it, because without it I lose the Spirit. The Holy Ghost never participates in my whining, self-pity, negativity, or blindness to the Lord’s purposes. The Lord never motivates or inspires me to complain about my circumstances or the faults of others or to grovel in self-denigration. But whenever I am attending to the commandment to give thanks in all things the Spirit attends me and I feel joy—no matter how bad the circumstances might be. No wonder this commandment has been so often repeated.

This Thanksgiving season my prayer for all of us is that we turn our thoughts and minds and hearts to thanking God for life, for His plan, for the blessing of learning through experience, and for the knowledge that all things can work together for our good. In short, that we thank God in all things. Gratitude is the grand solution."

Darla Isackson