Patricia T. Holland wrote:
Christ’s promise to us forever is that we don’t have to do it alone. So let’s keep our focus on the right motives, let’s just try to look to him for life, let us try to lay up for ourselves treasures in heaven rather than on earth. . . .
The secret, of course, is to pray earnestly that we will have enough energy just to do the truly essential things—-the spiritual things, the eternal things. Then we can pray equally, fervently that we will have peace regarding the non-essential things—-even if some of those non-essentials seem to be Church-related too. There are many, many nonessential things to let go of if we are going to allow ourselves adequate time and freedom to embrace God. But it is worth it. For when we embrace him, he will embrace us! And to do it we must, at least in some areas of our lives, stop being too temporally focused and so telestially preoccupied. ~Patricia T. Holland, A Year of Powerful Prayer (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2013), p.44
