You rock a sobbing child without wondering if today's world is passing you by, because you know you hold tomorrow tightly in your arms.

To think of enduring to the end as ‘hanging in there,’ doing one’s duty relentlessly, is not inaccurate. Yet enduring to the end is more than outlasting and surviving, though it includes those qualities. We are called upon, as was the Prophet Joseph, to ‘endure it well,’ gracefully, not grudgingly. (D&C 121:8.) We are also told that we must ‘endure in faith.’ (D&C 101:35.) These dimensions of enduring are important to note. Likewise, we are asked to endure ‘valiantly.’ (D&C 121:29.)

I know the celestial criteria measure service, not status; the use of our talents, not the relative size of our talent inventories. I know that Church membership is not passive security but continuing opportunity.

I am as I am, And so is a stone; Them that don't like me, Must leave me alone.

Those who do too much for their children will soon find they can do nothing with their children. So many children have been so much done for they are almost done in.

The flame of family can warm us and at the same time be a perpetual pilot light to rekindle us.

We can't dwell upon another's ingratitude without using up our time and talents unprofitably.