It is impossible for me to express gratitude for my Savior, Jesus Christ, without also expressing gratitude for my trials, for it is through these trials that I have come to more fully love and appreciate my Savior.
Several weeks ago I pruned my roses back so far I feared I had killed them. Within days, however, the bushes were flourishing and filled with large, beautiful roses and countless miniature rosebuds.
Such is the miracle of affliction, for only after the pruning—the trials, the burdens, the sharpening, the refining—can we truly begin to flourish.
“And if thou shouldst be cast into the pit, or into the hands of murderers, and the sentence of death passed upon thee; if thou be cast into the deep; if the billowing surge conspire against thee; if fierce winds become thine enemy; if the heavens gather blackness, and all the elements combine to hedge up the way; and above all, if the very jaws of hell shall gape open the mouth wide after thee, know thou, my son, that all these things shall give thee experience, and shall be for thy good.” Doctrine and Covenants 122:7
“These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.” John 16:33
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