Constant

Life never goes as planned. I don’t know of many people who’s life has gone as they planned and expected.

For me, my life has been very different than I thought it would. Children, occupation, location, all of it I imagined being so different than the way it’s turned out.

Today, though, instead of just thinking about how I should be grateful for my life (which I am), I thought about what has been constant in my life.

Starting of course, with the love of my Savior. He’s been there in every moment of my life- good and bad, high and low, and even the “regular” stuff. His constancy is something that I depend on in all parts of my life and that I am so incredibly grateful for.

Also including the love of my family in what is constant. My parents, my siblings, my grandparents, my husband and daughter.

The feeling of peace in the temple has always been a constant, even when I didn’t understand it all the way as a teenager.

The power of music.

The light of laughter.

And as we are contemplating more unexpected changes and pivots in life, these constants are what I’m depending on to keep us grounded, hopeful, and close to what matters most.