We will be tested, often to our limit. And the greatest
blessings will be based on how well we endure our tests. They [tests/challenges] are provided for a
reason—so that we can become and accomplish what we were sent to the earth to
be and to do.
[What we are to be} won’t come without challenges, and it
won’t come about all at once. We are
prepared line upon line, precept upon precept, here a little and there a
little. And that always
Elder Hales told a story I have never told before to explain
how we can move forward. “As a boy, I
had the job of shellacking a wooden floor. As I neared the end of the task, my
father found me in a terrible predicament. He literally stood at the door and
laughed. I had worked from the only door to the far end of the room. I had
painted myself into a corner, without a window. There was no escape! At that
point I had two choices: sit down and accept being stuck for many hours until
the varnish dried or walk back across the floor, undoing all I had done. I knew
what it would take to refinish it properly. The sanding and refinishing—I knew
what was ahead of me, and so did my father.”
Through our choices “we are either choosing to move toward a
new door with many possibilities or into a closed corner with very few options.
“
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