Dare
“No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to our education, to the development of such qualities as patience, faith, fortitude and humility. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we endure it patiently, builds up our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender and charitable, more worthy to be called the children of God … and it is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which will make us more like our Father and Mother in heaven.”
—Orson F. Whitney
God lets us go through difficult things not only because He loves us and wants us to learn things we could not learn in any other way, but also to prove our own strength to ourselves. In learning how to cope, to be positive in spite of our circumstances, to roll up our sleeves, forget ourselves and go to work, to keep telling ourselves we are not and will not be beat, we become every bit as great as God designed us to be, and as strong as we always hoped.
As they state in the song, "I'll fight 'til I win, proud of the cost of my battle scars."
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