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.
No man can avail himself of the forces of his creative imagination, while dissipating them.
If men wound you with injuries, meet them with patience; hasty words rankle the wound, soft language dresses it, forgiveness cures it, and oblivion takes away the scar. It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.
No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.
The difference between mercy and grace? Mercy gave the prodigal son a second chance. Grace gave him a feast.
Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.
The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even of hope.
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