This file photograph reveals former Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te’o throughout a sport towards BYU on Saturday, Oct. 20, 2012 in South Bend. Notre Dame received 17-14. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has shared a non secular thought from Te’o in a social media put up. Scott G Winterton, Deseret Information
Messages of inspiration from former Notre Dame and NFL linebacker Manti Te’o had been featured Sunday on social media by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
His three messages and images, posted on the church’s Fb and Instagram accounts, centered on overcoming adversity, forgiveness and the way Te’o realized to search out interior peace.
Te’o, a member of the Latter-day Saint religion, was a Heisman Trophy candidate and star linebacker for Notre Dame earlier than he grew to become the middle of a media firestorm in 2013 when it was revealed that his deceased girlfriend didn't exist however was truly a social media creation.
Te’o just lately advised his model of occasions in a Netflix documentary, “Untold: The Girlfriend Who Didn’t Exist.”
‘Refiner’s fireplace’
Te’o’s first non secular message centered on coping with life’s trials and studying to belief in God.
“There’s this time period known as the ‘refiner’s fireplace,’ and life appears to repeatedly be that for everybody,” he wrote. “After I undergo tough instances and trials, I smile as a result of I perceive what that fireside is and that Heavenly Father is molding me proper now. He permits the warmth to extend in order that I could be formed into whom I must develop into. I realized that I wanted to belief God, proceed doing the perfect I may and permit him to hold me. I began to see how I might be an instrument in his fingers to do the issues he wanted me to do. I don’t know why issues occur. However I will need to have religion. It doesn’t should be good, however I should be affected person. I can’t all the time management what occurs, however I can management how I react and all the time attempt to be a constructive mild and good affect on others.”
‘Forgiveness has been a course of’
In his second message, Te’o write that “Forgiveness has been a course of for me.” He discovered solutions in studying and following the Savior’s instance.
“I’ve realized that to regain a stage of peace, I've to let issues go,” he wrote. “Lots of us are carrying round burdens within the type of anger and revenge which at instances can lead us to a darkish place. I used to be feeling this and was determined to search out peace. I used to be all the time taught to forgive, however I knew this could be tough. ... As soon as I realized to forgive, all the sentiments of anger and revenge had been lifted, and I discovered true peace.”
Discovering peace in Christ
Now married and the mum or dad of a younger daughter, Te’o has discovered new perspective on how God watches over his kids of their struggles and the way he helps them develop.
Te’o has realized that the one option to discover peace on this life is by protecting the commandments and following Jesus Christ.
“The gospel in its purest type gave me peace to navigate via the challenges I went via and proceed to undergo immediately. That peace that comes from the Atonement of Jesus Christ is the one factor that helped me at my lowest and at my highest,” Te’o wrote.
“It's my testimony that this peace is one thing that this world and all it has to supply may by no means give me. The peace that solely comes from the atoning sacrifice of the Savior is what saved me.”