(From Kent… What follows is an indication of how many of the subjects for this site are chosen. If I feel a sense of ‘self-conviction’, I am automatically drawn to the message, knowing that if I have a problem with living it, there are likely many that have the same challenge.)
“Life’s recurring challenges include the minor vexations, too. One is developing genuine compassion for those who are awash in self-pity. Better for these to receive our rescuing empathy than to be left to swim in their own self-pity.
Another is displaying greater patience with the chronically impatient, especially when our own impatience is clearly not conquered in a day.
Learning to love those we don’t like is an even more demanding peak to be climbed.
Those difficult to love—and we may ourselves be such at times—can make giving up seem attractive, or at least bring a slackening and a relapse in our relationships. No wonder resilience matters so much. Trying again may bring the long-sought breakthrough, which is what long-suffering is all about.
There is no foot note to the second commandment indicating exemptions are available in meeting such vexations.” ~ Neal A. Maxwell
(Posts with a preamble asterisk * are for a more general audience, and not specific to teachings of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.)
