Patience........

Continue in Patience-President Dieter F. Uchtdorf



This morning I read this talk in the Ensign, it was given at Preisthood session so I did not hear it orginally. I am so glad I didn't skip over this section, or I would have skipped over this talk and it was one I personally really needed. I just want to write the four or five sections/quotes that really talked to my spirit and testimony.

1. " Patience-the ability to put OUR DESIRES ON HOLD FOR A TIME- IS A PRECIOUS AND RARE VIRTUE. " ....... " Without, patience, we cannont please God;we cannnot become perfect. Indeed, patience is a purifying process that refines understanding, deepens happiness, focuses action, and offers hope for peace." .... " If children are ever going to mature and reach their potential, they must learn to wait!"

2. "..... From that experience, I learned that patience was far more that simply waiting for something to happen-patience required actively working toward worthwhile goals and not getting discouranged when results didn't appear instantly or without effort." ...."Patience is not passive resignation, nor is it failing to act because of our fears. Patience means active waiting and enduring. It means staying with something and doing all that we can-working, hoping, exercising faith, bearing hardship with fortitude, even when the desires of our hearts are delayed. Patience is not simply enduring;it is enduring well."

3. " As the Lord is patinet with us, let us be patient with those we serve. understand that they, luke us, are imperfect. They, like us, make mistakes. They, like us, want others to give them the benefit of the doubt. Never give up on anyone. This includes yourselves!"...." I belive that every one of us, at one time or another, can idnetify with the servant in Christ's parable who owed money to the king and who pled with the king saying, " Lord, have patience with me."

4. " The children of Israel waited for 40 years in the wilderness before they could enter the promised land. Jacob waited 7 years for Rachel, The jews waited 70 years in Babylon before they could return to rebuild the temple. The Nephities waited for a sign of Christ's birth, Joseph Smith 's trials in Liberty Jail caused even the prophet of God to wonder " How Long?'"....." In each case, Heavenly Father had a purpose in requiring that His children wait. "

5. ....." I know for sure that the promises of the Lord, if perhaps not always swift, are always certain."

6. " Often the deep valleys of our present will be understood only by looking back on them from the mountains of our future experience. Often we can not see the Lord's hand in our lives until long after trails have passes. Often the most difficult imes of our lives are essential builiding blocks taht form the foundation of our character and pave the way to future opportunity, understanding, and happiness."

7. " Patience means staying with something until the end. It means delaying immediate gratification for future blessings. It means reining in anger and hloding back the unkind word. It means resisting evil, even when it appears to be making others rich. Patience means accepting that wich cannot be changed and facing it with courage, grace, and faith. It means being " willing to submit to all thing which the Lord seeth fit to inflict upon us, even as a child doth submit to his father."

8. " ....If we wait patiently for the Lord, he will incline unto us. He will hear our cries. He will bring us out of a horrible pit and set our feet upon a solid rock. he will put a new song inour mouths, and we will praise our God. Many around us will see it, and they will trust in the Lord."


This was such a wonderful talk, words can not express all that it meant to me and my life. It will always apply no matter the stitution i find myself in.