Jennifer Lunt Brooks

It’s not really my thing to get personal on social media, but dang it, lm feeling uncomfortably nudged to share this today.

MARRIAGE:
When my marriage was ending and my world was falling apart, my sweet kids especially the older ones questioned how this could possibly be happening. They saw their parents study the scriptures, go to the temple, serve in our callings, work along side each other, have fun together and joyfully and fearlessly love each other. All the things. They saw happy. They asked why they would ever want to get married and how their marriages would ever have a chance at surviving if ours couldn’t. Although I didn’t have all the answers, I did not have to hesitate with my answer to that question- I knew it then and I know it now. They should get married because MARRIAGE IS WORTH IT!!!
It is the most incredible, worthwhile, important, rewarding and fulfilling relationship we can have and brings so much joy even amidst the hard.

We all painfully learned first hand that Father in heaven never tampers with our agency-our ability to choose, which meant for us someone choosing something other than his marriage covenant. We didn’t know why. We didn’t know how. We didn’t understand. BUT that doesn’t mean all is lost. There’s still hope for beautiful lasting marriages for them, for me, and for each of one Gods children.

Hope for it, work for it, pray for it, live in such a way that you can have it! It is worth it!! Then let Heavenly Father and the Savior do the rest.

At times I still am fearful of my future and I falter in my faith that Heavenly Father has something beautiful in store for me. I want an eternal marriage. So I work and wait and feel grateful for what I’ve experienced and learned along the way.

God always has a contingency plan. He knew it would get messy. He loves us and is always working for our good. 💜