Loyalty

   There is something I seem to do very often: dedicate myself to something that I imagine will happen. I align my hopes and actions with things that I believe so much will happen that I act as if it already has. Many of my close friends and especially my family have seen this in me and have expressed their concern about its possible injurious outcomes. In effect: Sometimes I'm too loyal.
   Can anyone ever be too loyal? Can that ever be bad? Usually, to tell you the truth no. At least not with me. Usually my wish never comes to fruition and I can almost always see the writing on the wall, so no one's feelings get hurt...except mine usually.
   Early in my mission I was always looking for the miracles to just...come. But I learned that they only come once we work hard and have faith in Jesus Christ. They do come, but they don't just appear out of thin air. Grace is a free gift if we ask for and use it. It seems that with miracles, and our wishes (which in a sense could also be termed miracles) we have to almost have the attitude that we work with the mindset that our won't happen, but we do the work anyways. It has been on my mind for a long time, even since I was 15 and 16 that if we trust in God and ourselves so much that we care not what happens, miracles happen. Sometimes the most indirect path leads straighter.