Life is hard, and sometimes we just feel done. We feel like we’re done. We feel like we have nothing more within us. Nothing left to give. Nothing left to offer…and we’re done. We quit.

Well, after not freaking out when I saw that text (which is the first step), I had to come up with an idea, a plan, a solution, something to say, something to do. What do you do when you feel like you’re going to quit, or someone you love wants to give up? 

Quit the Right Way

Interestingly enough, I wrote about this topic in my journal a few days before this happened. I wrote “I have come up with the dignified, respectable, and very wise way to quit.” Do you want to know what it was? Here it is: I quit doing things…On My Own. We don’t have to do anything alone! We don’t. We have a Savior, who is Jesus Christ. And he has said “Cast your burdens upon me, for my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.” 

Turn to the Savior

That’s a good way to quit! Quit doing it on your own. You don’t have to. You have a Savior who loves you and wants to help. And he can make your life easier if you turn to him. I have done this many times in my life and I have found great success. And my quitting, or my giving up, or being done, doesn’t last. I process the emotion. I reach out for help from my Savior and from my loved ones. I get validation. They agree it’s hard. I tell them what’s going on and they agree it’s hard. 

But I don’t have to do it alone, and you don’t either. So the next time you feel like quitting, or like you’re just done, I encourage you to quit…in the respectable, dignified and wise way. Quit doing it on your own. You don’t have to, and neither do I, and neither does my child.