Why Me?

Frequently, our first reaction to hard things is “Why me?” Asking why, however, never takes away the hard thing. The Lord requires that we overcome challenges, and He has indicated “that all these things shall give [us] experience, and shall be for [our] good.”

Lift Up Your Head and Rejoice, October 2018 General Conference, M. Joseph Brough

I Have Given You [These Challenges] That You Might Teach My People with Authenticity

 “I was doing some pensive pondering and these 13 instructive and reassuring words came into my mind: ‘I have given you leukemia that you might teach my people with authenticity.’” He then went on to express how this experience had blessed him with “perspective about the great realities of eternity. … Such glimpses of eternity can help us to travel the next 100 yards, which may be very difficult.”

Lift Up Your Head and Rejoice, October 2018 General Conference, M. Joseph Brough