Starting over

I thought with all the changes I am going through I needed a new blog.  It just didn't seem quite right to be blogging on my site that indicated a life that is no longer in existence. So I am starting over, but not just blogging! That would be cake if that is all I was changing! Change is good, though, right?.  It helps us grow, we stretch and learn and hopefully become better than we were.  I don't think I was prepared in any way to be a single mom however, as my focus was on always being a forever family.  Although I feel a deep sense of loss I know I am going to make it.  I don't know how, boy I don't know how.  But I believe that God blesses those who are obedient and I plan on being perfectly obedient if possible.  I feel as though I am in the refiner's fire.  I know that through all these challenges I have faced and am currently facing I am being prepared for something.  I believe in God's promises and know that I have a stewardship over my children to raise them in righteousness and as Nephi has said, "the Lord giveth no commandment unto the children of men save he shall prepare a way for them to accomplish the thing which he hath commandeth them."  That applies to us all.  God will provide a way for us to do that which is right.  So I can press forward with a perfect brightness of hope.  May I always have hope even when all seems dark.  Discouragement and fear have a way of beating me down but I pray that I might resist the temptation to doubt and be still and know that God is over all. SO here's to a new start!