Why not me?

Ever since I heard this song (it is below on the youtube video) on Music and the Spoken Word it has remained one of my favorites. I love the message that this song has to share about being able to "go on through the storm, through the rain; how facing one more day and lifting up our head and seeing a ray of light. How going on against the tide, against the odds, we can win."
What a positive message this has for those trials that we face in life; knowing that once we get out of the storm there is going to be light.

In the November 2006 Ensign, David Baxter says, ""Discipleship does not guarantee freedom from the storms of life. Even as we are wending our way carefully and faithfully along the strait and narrow path, we encounter obstacle and challenge. There are days, perhaps even months and years, when life is just hard. We experience our fair share of adversity, heartache, loneliness, pain, grief--sometimes; it seems more than our fair share.

"What to do when adversity strikes? There is only one thing to do. Stand steady and see it through. Stay steadfast, constant, and true. The real tragedy in the whirlwinds of life comes only when we allow them to blow us off our true course."

How many times do we feel pity for ourselves because we are facing adversity? Last week I had to give a speech, among others, for my Public Speaking class. This was our first speech, among many that we are going to give this semester, but this speech was our Self-Introduction. We had to choose a moment in our life and talk about it - describe how it made us who we are. One girl talked about how she was became paralyzed from the waist down. She was told it could be one of two things, one being MS. But the tests came back negative for MS. Well, flash forward a year or so and she is having more tests for various symptoms and this time the MS test comes back positive. Prior to her test results she was helping a lady in her ward, and this woman she was helping had MS. This woman with MS did not have the attitude of "why me," but rather the attitude of "why not me?"
When this gal received confirmation that she did indeed have MS, she decided then and there that day that she was going to have that same sort of attitude of "why not me?"
I think when we are thrown a curve ball this is the attitude that we need to have, "why not me?" I think this attitude would help us gain some insight on the trial that we are facing; it might even help ease the trial if we took a different approach on it.

President Monson said, ""Whenever we are inclined to feel burdened down with the blows of life, let us remember that others have passed the same way, have endured, and then have overcome. When we have done all that we are able, we can rely on God's promised help.

"You have access to the lighthouse of the Lord. There is no fog so dense, no night so dark, no mariner so lost, no gale so strong as to render useless the lighthouse of the Lord. It beckons through the storms of life. It seems to call, 'This way to safety; this way to home."

We need to remember that others have passed the same roads that we are going down and that they have endured and have overcome. But the Lord is always there for us, he will guide us through those tough times. He wants to see us succeed.

(turn off my music before listening to this song, hopefully you enjoy it as much as I do)