Tragedy, loss, and hurt often arrive unanticipated. How we react when we are surprised will tell our families whether what we have taught and testified lies deep in our hearts.
Interpretation
Our reactions to unexpected hardships reveal our true values and teachings.
This quote emphasizes that during times of tragedy and loss, our immediate reactions are crucial indicators of the principles and values we genuinely hold. It suggests that the way we respond to unexpected challenges showcases the depth of the wisdom and teachings we've internalized, influencing not only ourselves but also setting an example for our families.
In practice
In a memorial speech, discussing how we cope with loss can draw on this quote.
My point is to urge you to find ways to recognize and remember Godβs kindness. It will build our testimonies. You may not keep a journal. You may not share whatever record you keep with those you love and serve. But you and they will be blessed as you remember what the Lord has done.
Increased spiritual strength is a gift from God which He can give when we push in His service to our limits. Through the power of the Atonement of Jesus Christ, our natures can be changed. Then our power to carry burdens can be increased more than enough to compensate for the increased service we will be asked to give.
Whether or not you choose to keep your covenant to always remember Him, He always remembers you.
What all of us long for in our hearts, at Christmastime and always, is to feel bound together in love with the sweet assurance that it can last forever.
We cannot control what others choose to do, and so we cannot force our children to heaven, but we can determine what we will do. And we can decide that we will do all we can to bring down the powers of heaven into that family we want so much to have forever.
It is serving God and others persistently with full heart and soul that turns testimony of truth into unbreakable spiritual strength.
I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.
It is always far easier to have faith in your own goodness than to confront others ad fight for your rights.
All you need is already within you, only you must approach your self with reverence and love. Self-condemnation and self-distrust are grievous errors. Your constant flight from pain and search for pleasure is a sign of love you bear for your self, all I plead with you is this: make love of your self perfect. Deny yourself nothing -- glue your self infinity and eternity and discover that you do not need them; you are beyond.
Since you are not a prophet, follow the way taught by prophets. _x000D_ _x000D_ Since you are not a king, be a loyal subject to The King. _x000D_ _x000D_ Since you are not a captain, do not take the helm of the ship. _x000D_ _x000D_ Since you do not possess every skill, have partners in your business. _x000D_ _x000D_ Be as pliant as dough in the hands of others, that you may rise well.
If the mind is willing, the flesh could go on and on without many things.
What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.
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