“Life is a school, a place for us to learn and grow. We, like Adam and Eve, experience 'growing pains' through the sorrow and contamination of a lone and dreary world. These experiences may include sin, but they also include mistakes, disappointments, and the undeserved pain of adversity. The blessed news of the gospel is that the Atonement of Jesus Christ can purify all the uncleanness and sweeten all the bitterness we taste.” WorldMaySchoolPainLife IsJesusGrowsChristSinMistakeGrowingSorrowTasteNewsJesus ChristAdversityBlessedDisappointmentBitternessAdamAtonementLoneDrearyAdam And EveGrowing PainsContamination Author:Bruce C. Hafen
“The Savior’s gift of grace to us is not necessarily limited in time to ‘after’ all we can do. We may receive his grace before, during and after the time when we expend our own efforts” MayCan DoEffortGraceSavior Author:Bruce C. Hafen
“The Savior desires to save us from our inadequacies as well as our sins. Inadequacy is not the same as being sinful - we have far more control over the choice to sin than we may have over our innate capacity. . . . A sense of falling short or falling down is not only natural but essential to the mortal experience. Still, after all we can do, the Atonement can fill that which is empty, straighten our bent parts, and make strong that which is weak.” WellsMayStillsDesireChoicesFallStrongCan DoNaturalSinEssentialsCapacityEmptyWeakMortalsEmptinessSaviorBentInnateFalling DownAtonementInadequacy Author:Bruce C. Hafen
“Marriage is by nature a covenant, Not just a private contract one may cancel at will.” MayContractsCovenant Author:Bruce C. Hafen
