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 talked with great men, and I do not see how they differ from others.
We have discharged one generation of debtors after another, but we do not find that their numbers lessen. We find only that we forget, when times are good, that times were ever bad.
I read about writers who have routines. They write at certain times of the day. I can't do that. I am always writing-but in my head.
I think that one can have luck if one tries to create an atmosphere of spontaneity.
You can get so confused that you'll start in to race down long wiggled roads at a break-necking pace and grind on for miles across weirdish wild space, headed, I fear, toward a most useless place. The Waiting Place.
Pitching always beats batting β and vice-versa.
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