As we act in faith, we often find that the blessings from the Lord are different than we expected but much better than we imagined.

We see God's miracles in His wondrous work and in our own personal lives.

Like the intense fire that transforms iron into steel, as we remain faithful during the fiery trial of our faith, we are spiritually refined and strengthened.

The invitation to repent is rarely a voice of chastisement but rather a loving appeal to turn around and to “re-turn” toward God.

But our trials need not be spiritually fatal. They need not take us from our covenants or from the household of God.

In his own time and in his own way, the Lord will bring about his miracles.

The Prophet Joseph Smith warned us to ‘beware of self-righteousness’ and to enlarge our hearts toward all men and women until we feel ‘to take them upon our shoulders.