Jesus, the Constant Friend that Meets You Where You Are

Even in unexpected changes and consistent challenges, you are never alone.

Mar 27, 2025

Hi reader!! I talk about Latter-Day Saint Temples (literally aka The House of the Lord✨) in this post - if you’d like to learn/understand my context about it more, this page helps to explain and clarify what temples are and how they bless the lives of many Latter-Day Saint members.

So yeah, a part of my post talks about me volunteering to work at a local temple to help attendants have a beautiful, spiritually sanctifying experience. :)

Feel free to reach out or comment if you have any more questions 🫶🏼

practicing our Ghibli-like transit for work lol, we got so hungry after :’)

Has anyone here seen Inside Out 2?!

If you haven’t, there’s a character added there - Anxiety. Man, whenever I watch scenes with Anxiety, I get SO anxious and stressed LOL!

The reason why I mention this character is that - whenever there seems to be a wonderful opportunity to make things right in the simplest/calm way possible - the character (Anxiety) takes over and makes the situation more complicated than it originally (possibly never) was 🫠

Like a tornado on a beautiful spring day. That’s what anxiety feels like to me. Complete fear even when miracles are all around you.

I received a job offer Monday morning and I was SO excited.

But I was also (increasingly) feeling nervous. Very anxious. Since we don’t have a car, the transportation to that job is a little far by public transit - a little over an hour or more at times. I thought of all of the things that could go wrong.

The greatest challenge for me is letting go of my volunteer work shift in the temple every Friday. My work in the temple has been so spiritually refreshing and I have loved every single time I’ve nurtured there - especially the friendships I’ve made, and how much I’ve grown with the Lord since working my first day. Accepting this job offer meant that I would need to rearrange my schedule and let go of my temple work shift for now.

So, my process of slowly acknowledging and accepting what my new normal potentially would look like . . . has given me anxiety, lol. This job requires me to work most Fridays and Saturdays, and right now I can’t think of how God would give me and my husband the time to go to the temple with our changing/busy schedules.

As I prayed and expressed my heightening concerns with the Lord,

I was led to hear these words from President Russell M. Nelson’s talk that was shared during the pandemic—

Brothers and sisters, during times of our distress when temples are closed, you can still draw upon the power of your temple covenants and endowment as you honor your covenants. Please use this time when temples are closed to continue to live a temple-worthy life or to become temple worthy.
Talk about the temple with your family and friends. Because Jesus Christ is at the center of everything we do in the temple, as you think more about the temple you will be thinking more about Him. Study and pray to learn more about the power and knowledge with which you have been endowed—or with which you will yet be endowed.

(Temple covenants are promises we make inside the temple. An endowment is a gift from God received through temple covenants. Temple worthiness is a Latter-Day Saint’s sacred preparation to enter the temple by making and keeping the promises he/she makes with God)

I felt an overwhelming feeling that no matter what I decide - the Lord will help me. So, I accepted the job offer LOL! Bit by bit, my anxiety started to decrease. My hope in Christ is gradually increasing and I am so grateful for it. I felt the Lord promising me so many blessings—and Him telling me to hold on tight to His Word always.

**On my main picture, my husband is helping me practice take the transit, haha (I haven’t taken public transit by myself in a long time so he wants to help me build my confidence even when his spring allergies are attacking him relentlessly🥲) - the ride was very scenic and relaxing (we both felt like a main character in a Ghibli movie!! 🥹😭)

I hope that whatever circumstances you are in, know that the Lord is merciful and graceful enough to come and meet you where you are.

There is a God that loves you, and wants a relationship with you—and when we nurture this relationship with Him through our practice of daily devotion, He promises to flourish our soul in the holiness of our efforts . . . wherever we are, in whatever we seek.

Let Jesus be your Prince of Peace, your Constant Friend.