“I’m not sure why you are friends with me since I just complain all the time.”

My heart broke as I heard a dear friend say this to me recently.

She was going through some rough stuff.

And she expressed how she felt like all she did was complain.

My response?

That’s not how I saw things at all.

This is the beautiful thing about life.

We ebb and flow in our give and take.

Sometimes we are the sun.

Sometimes we are shining bright and lifting people up.

This friend in particular is always taking other people dinners who are in need, offering to help with anything, and has been there in very serious moments when I’ve needed immediate help.

She shines bright a whole lot.

But then, the sun goes down.

And we are the moon.

We don’t have much of our own light to give, and so we rely on the light we get from other people.

And she totally gets to be a moon right now.

There’s a time to serve and a time to be served.

There’s a time to love and a time to feel love.

There’s a time to shine the light of Christ and there’s a time to rely on the light that other people have.

“They give light to each other in their times and in their seasons…

“The sun giveth his light by day, and the moon giveth her light by night”. D&C 88:44-45

There are times and seasons for all things. Times for the sun, and seasons for the moon.

We have the light of Christ within us not to just shine and bring glory to ourselves.

But we have the light to give to each other in the times and seasons that we need.

Happy Studying!

-Cali Black

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  1. Cali, I love this! thank you so much. Perfect reminder of why we need one another and why we need our Savior.
    love,
    Kathleen

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