The enlarging of the soul requires not only some remodeling, but some excavating.

Unproductive worry - like Parkinson's proverbial law - tends to expand to fill the time available.

Regarding trials, including of our faith and patience, there are no exemptions-only variations.

Meanwhile, spiritual submissiveness brings about the wiser use of our time, talents, and gifts as compared with our laboring diligently but conditionally to establish our own righteousness instead of the Lord's (D&C 1:16). After all, Lucifer was willing to work very hard, but conditionally in his own way and for his own purposes.

Ultimate hope constitutes the anchor of the soul.

If, in the end, you have not chosen Jesus Christ it will not matter what you have chosen.

These really are our days, and we can prevail and overcome, even in the midst of trends that are very disturbing. If we are faithful the day will come when those deserving pioneers and ancestors, whom we rightly praise for having overcome the adversities in the wilderness trek, will praise today’s faithful for having made their way successfully through a desert of despair and for having passed through a cultural wilderness, while still keeping the faith.