Awhile back at my Brighton job my roommates and I would share a thought and pray together at night. One night one of my roommates, Waffle, told us this quote and I really love it.
"There is no human condition- be it suffering incapacity, inadequacy, mental deficiency, or sin- which He cannot comprehend or for which His love will not reach out to the individual' This is a staggering thought when we contemplate the Mt. Everest of pain required to make it so. What weight is thrown on the scales of pain when calculating the hurt of innumerable patients in countless hospitals? Now add to that the loneliness of the elderly who are forgotten in the rest homes of society, desperately yearning for a card, a visit, a call- just some recognition from the outside world. Keep on adding the hurt of hungry children, the suffering caused by famine drought and pestilence. Pile on the heartache of parents who tearfully plead on a daily basis for a wayward son or daughter to come back home. Factor in the trauma of every divorce and tragedy of every abortion. Add the remorse that comes with each child lost in the dawn of life, each spouse taken in the prime of marraige. Compound that with the misery of overflowing prisons, bulging halfway houses and institutions for the mentally disadvantaged. Multiply all this by century after century, and creation after creation without end. Such is but an awful glimpse of the Saviors load. Who can bear such a burden or scale such a mountain as this? No one, absolutely no one, save Jesus Christ, the Redeemer of us all." - President Ezra Taft Benson
"There is no physical pain, no spiritual wound, no anguish of soul or heartache, no infirmity or weakness you or I ever confront in mortality that the Savior did not experience first. In a moment of weakness we may cry out, “No one knows what it is like. No one understands.” But the Son of God perfectly knows and understands, for He has felt and borne our individual burdens. And because of His infinite and eternal sacrifice (see Alma 34:14), He has perfect empathy and can extend to us His arm of mercy. He can reach out, touch, succor, heal, and strengthen us to be more than we could ever be and help us to do that which we could never do relying only upon our own power. Indeed, His yoke is easy and His burden is light." -David A. Bednar
The Lord is truly mindful of us.
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