Those few members who desert the cause are abandoning an oasis to search for water in the desert.

Thus it is that our faith and trust in our Heavenly Father, so far as this mortal experience is concerned, consists not simply of faith and gladness that He exists, but is also a faith and trust that, if we are humble, He will tutor us, aiding our acquisition of needed attributes and experiences while we are in mortality. We trust not only the Designer but also His design of life itself, including our portion thereof!

Patient endurance permits us to cling to our faith in the Lord and our faith in His timing when we are being tossed about by the surf of circumstance. Even when a seeming undertow grasps us, somehow, in the tumbling, we are being carried forward, though battered and bruised.

We can be walking witnesses and standing sermons to which objective onlookers can say a quiet amen.

We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count.

How myopic it is to view His ministry as all crucifixion and no resurrection!

We are so busy constantly checking our own temperatures, we fail to notice the burning fevers of others.