“Keep telling that lost one about the love and forgiveness found in the gospel. Keep serving your community even when they don’t serve you. It’s those things that matter most in life that challenge us in the deepest ways and tempt us to quit. The every day stuff of life that brings us to tears does so because we understand what’s at stake if we were to stop.”

“He who goes out weeping”

Beloved brother or sister in Christ, to live in light of eternity means to live every day with an awareness that you will one day reap unspeakable joy. One day you shall see the face of Christ and the joy in that moment will outweigh every sorrow of today.

This constant, because-you-know-you-must, because-if-you-quit-today-things-will-fall-apart, kind of tearful sowing, and the sadness that comes with it, will seem as nothing in comparison.

We must continue teaching, explaining, working, waiting, listening, learning, repenting, forgiving, growing, and perhaps even stumble a little in the process.

Keep loving when no love returns.

Keep instilling those values into your children that don’t seem to stick the first, second or third time. Eventually they will.

Keep getting up in the morning and going to a job you wish was more enjoyable and for which you wish you received more pay, because your family really does depend on you.

Keep telling that lost one about the love and forgiveness found in the gospel. Keep serving your community even when they don’t serve you.

It’s those things that matter most in life that challenge us in the deepest ways and tempt us to quit. The every day stuff of life that brings us to tears does so because we understand what’s at stake if we were to stop.

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