Our Divinity

Dear Family

 This week’s message is an excerpt from a talk given in the April General Conference.  The talk focuses on our divinity and how remembering our divinity when we are in the midst of a struggle, can change how we choose to deal with it.  I know that you are a blessed daughter or son of Heavenly Parents.  They are cheering you on, I am cheering you on.

Love you all

DaD

“When difficult things occur in our lives, what is our immediate response? Is it confusion or doubt or spiritual withdrawal? Is it a blow to our faith? Do we blame God or others for our circumstances? Or is our first response to remember who we are—that we are children of a loving God? Is that coupled with an absolute trust that He allows some earthly suffering because He knows it will bless us, like a refiner’s fire, to become like Him and to gain our eternal inheritance?

Recently, I was in a meeting with Elder Jeffrey R. Holland. In teaching the principle that mortal life can be agonizing but our hardships have eternal purpose—even if we do not understand it at the time—Elder Holland said, ‘You can have what you want, or you can have something better.’”

Elder Donald L. Hallstrom, of the Seventy

https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2016/04/i-am-a-child-of-god?lang=eng