Living a Life of Peace, Joy, and Purpose

Elder Scott's April 2011 BYU commencement remarks are summarized in an article in this months Enisgn magazine. One thing that struck me from his remarks is one of the principles upon which he states that faith is based:

Patience and understanding when God lets you struggle to grow and when answers come a piece at a time over an extended period.

To me this means that I must have patience when, for example, we are struggling to find a place to live and God doesn't immediately drop a pin on Google Maps for us to say, "THIS IS WHERE YOU MUST LIVE!", or when the normal trials of life happen and God allows them to happen and not immediately intervene to rescue us and make it all better immediately.

In my experience, even when God lets us struggle to grow through our trials, I can still see His hand in quiet and sometimes subtle ways, making things easier to manage. For example, although our family car broke down yesterday, and is most likely not reparable so that we'll have to find and purchase a new vehicle, we count our blessings that at least it didn't break down last week at 10pm when we were halfway home from Orlando!