"Rock Bottom"

Today has been a day full of insights and inspiration...I just had to write some things down.

It started with my Relief Society President winging a lesson because the teacher didn't show up. She decided to talk about the Atonement, and how it really is for everyone. It was great. But then my friend Shelli raised her hand and made this awesome comment that has been what has opened up so many doors today...

She talked about how people use the expression, "Rock Bottom." How it means that when you hit rock bottom, you can't go any deeper and that you are stuck there. But then she said, she thought about how in the scriptures it talks about Christ being our "rock" and salvation. So when we hit rock bottom, we have really just run into the Savior. That we can't go below him because he ascended below all things. And when we hit rock bottom, we have a chance to start anew and to then build our foundations on the Savior. How awesome is that thought? I love it. I can't say I have ever hit rock bottom in my life, but there are times when it sure has felt like it. And I know that the one person who was there for me deep in my sorrow was the Savior. "His hand is out stretched still...." He will never give up on us. And when we believe we have gone so far and that there is no hope, we can see that the "rock" we have fallen on is actually Christ.

Then later I was able to go with my Grandparents to a missionary homecoming of one of the missionaries they served with. He shared the scripture Alma 26:17-20. Basically its when Ammon is asking why did the Lord decide to save him. Why is it that through his "polluted state" the Savior saved him and his brothers? And then it reads:
"...Behold, he did not exercise his justice upon us, but in his great mercy hath brought us over that everlasting gulf of death and misery, even to the salvation of our souls."

I think we often will ask why the Savior has extended his hand toward us and will continue to have his hand outstretched to us. And it is because of love. The Savior has mercy for us, and continues to plead for us to come unto him.

I love Sundays. I love the Atonement. I know that when I hit "rock bottom" that it is only a chance for me to pick myself up and to start again and to rely on the Savior to build my foundation. He is continually there for me, and He will always be there waiting for me to return.