He's been there

I heard this quote the other day and I really enjoyed it.  On night last semester I was having a really hard day, so I called my mom up to talk.  I was telling my mom how hard i felt my situation was and she just didn't understanding.  I finally just got off the phone with her because it just made me so mad, and as I was crying in my bed I heard a voice say " Jesus understands".  Its so true, he understands exactly how i felt, he has walked my path.  It was a reminder that we can always turn to our older brother Jesus Christ!

This is sister Cheiko Okazawki - former RS General President- from her book "Lighten Up"

"We know that on some level Jesus experienced the totality of mortal existence in Gethsemane. It's our faith that he experienced everything- absolutely everything. Sometimes we don't think through the implications of that belief. We talk in great generalities about the sins of all humankind, about the suffering of the entire human family. But we do not experience pain in generalities. We experience it individually. That mean Jesus know what it felt like when your mother died of cancer- how it was for your mother, how it still is for you. He knows what it felt like to lose the student body election. He knows that moment when the brakes locked, and the car started to skid. He experienced the slave ship sailing from Ghana toward Virgina and the gas chambers of Dachau. He experienced napalm in Vietnam. He knows about drug addiction and alcoholism.  

There is nothing you have experienced as a woman that he dose not also know and recognize. On a profound level, he understands about pregnancy and giving birth. He knows about PMS and cramps and menopause. He understands about rape and infertility and abortion.
His last recorded word to his disciples were, "And, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world." (Matthew 28:20) What dose that mean? It means he understands your mother-pain when your five-year-old leaves for kindergarten, when a bully picks on your fifth-grader, when your daughter calls to say that the new baby has Downs syndrome. He knows your mother-rage when a trusted babysitter sexually abuses your two-year-old, when someone give  your thirteen-year-old drugs, when someone seduce your seventeen-year-old. He knows the pain you live with when you come home to a quite apartment where the only children who ever come re visitors, when you learn your former husband and his new wife were sealed in the temple last week, when your fiftieth wedding anniversary rolls around and your husband has been dead for two years. He knows all of that. He's been there. He's been lower than that."