Are You Secure?




I recently responded to a post on Facebook asking what a secure person would be. I like to relate these kinds of things to my own experiences, so that being said I have found that the things I found security in over the years changed dramatically by experiences over the years. The word "secure" has changed for me several times in my life and really depends on where you are in your own life. When I was young fresh out of high school what was secure then, is not what is secure now. Life changes the security you think you have and our sense of security sometimes tends to be shattered by others choices making us have different and a sometimes more broad view of things. I have experienced many things and I'm not sure I find security in anything except the gospel of Jesus Christ, everything else are experiences that we are to learn from. I don't find someone who dresses bodacious secure, to me that is part of their personality. I relate the word secure to something that is fixed so that it can not be lost.
I once thought that I had a secure marriage, not so. One can not control the choices of another person, even though in my mind I never intended to ever get divorced it was something that happened. I have learned a great deal from it and through everything have found that forgiveness is also a very powerful thing. Forgiving others and yourself.
Living in Utah I had a great job, I felt secure and even moved up the ranks quickly into management. I enjoyed my job, however a larger company bought the company I worked for and fazed out the store I was at. They offered me a position anywhere I wanted to go, however I was not secure with this huge change and found myself insecure....Of coarse I have analyzed these things a million times, wondering if I would have been more brave if my life would have been different and more secure then I found it turned out to be.
After that I experienced many years not feeling anything remotely secure, except for the love I felt for my children and the knowledge I have found in gospel of Jesus Christ. I threw myself entirely into raising my children to find my own security. Now life is changing again as my children all become adults and start their own lives.  Being a single parent I'm not secure about my future, I never wanted to spend it without a husband, however through the experiences I have already had I now know what I want, I am secure in that.
So you see security depends on where you are in life and what you are experiencing.

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