“Therefore, how can you and I really expect to glide naively through life, as if to say, ‘Lord, give me experience, but not grief, not sorrow, not pain, not opposition, not betrayal, and certainly not to be forsaken. Keep from me, Lord, all those experiences which made Thee what Thou art! Then let me come and dwell with Thee and fully share Thy joy!’ …
“Real faith … is required to endure this necessary but painful developmental process.”
Elder Neal A. Maxwell (1926–2004) of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, “Lest Ye Be Wearied and Faint in Your Minds,” Ensign, May 1991, 88, 90.
This quote is definitely a wake up call for me. It's like, "Buck up!" This - is - life. We all have to experience tough times to enjoy the good. So just deal with the tough times, keep pushing foward, have faith and hope, and endure to the end.
Find the joy in your life right now. Because it's there even though it's hard to see sometimes. We make the mistake that our happiness lies in the future...once we get through these hard times. Life is what we make it. So make yours a joyful one!
