Stay Bright welcomes our first guest to the podcast! Musician Stacie Morris joins Kristy and Angie to share an unexpected lesson she learned about herself when a painful door closed in her life. Angie and Kristy discuss four tools that take us from wandering in our own emotional and spiritual wildernesses, to pointing our faith to the future. Lessons on the relationship between progress and obedience from the experiences of a developing Joseph Smith and encouraging words from Jeffrey R. Holland, John Bytheway, and Gordon B. Hinkley. 

RESOURCES AND REFERENCES:

1. Five Scriptures that Will Help You Through Almost Anything by John Bytheway

2. Saints

3. But if Not by Lance B. Wickman

4. Remember Lot's Wife - Faith is for the Future by Jeffrey R. Holland

5. 1 Corinthians 2:9

6. Believing Christ by Stephen Robinson

7. Isaiah 55:9

8. (Mosiah 15:7)


CHAPTER MARKERS:

1:30- Intro- Curveballs and unmet expectation

2:12- Lance B. Wickman- dwelling on questions

3:10- Kristy's story- "My ways are higher than your ways"

6:06- 1 Corinthians 2:9 

6:47- Tool #1- Trust the Author

7:02- We believe in Christ but do we believe Him??? 

8:35- Angie discusses humility and submissiveness 

10:27- Kristy's story about the blessing of not moving to Bend, Oregon

15:31- Questions to ask ourselves if we cannot find the open door

16:09- Tool #2- What are we being invited to learn about ourselves from this experience or this suffering?

16:23- John Bytheway- Story of Abraham

19:12- Stacie Morris' story of a closed door at Carnegie Hall

33:04- Tool #3- Don't underestimate obedience

33:35- Lesson on obedience: What we can learn from Joseph Smith

36:40- Exact obedience reference

37:26- Obedience is a form of humility and submissiveness

37:59- Tool #4- Look forward and not back

38:50- Ways that we look back

39:12- Holland quote- look forward

40:42- Rumination- unproductive thought

41:10- Can we see all things as the Lord being merciful? 

42:55- Our trust in God can be unbreakable

43:22- Greatest lesson learned from a missionary

43:47- Quote by Jenkin Lloyd Jones- "Life is like an old time rail journey..."