This post is part of the General Conference Odyssey. This week covers the Saturday Afternoon Session of the April 2012 Conference.
I love, have always loved, Elder Holland's talk about the laborers in the Lord's Vineyard, but I'd forgotten the specifics. This is what I wish more than anything I could get my children to believe (especially with Christmas coming up):
May I plead with us not to be hurt—and certainly not to feel envious—when good fortune comes to another person? We are not diminished when someone else is added upon. We are not in a race against each other to see who is the wealthiest or the most talented or the most beautiful or even the most blessed. …So be kind, and be grateful that God is kind. It is a happy way to live.
God is so good, so generous, so kind! I see His blessings in my life every day. I love this reminder:
My beloved brothers and sisters, what happened in this story at 9:00 or noon or 3:00 is swept up in the grandeur of the universally generous payment at the end of the day. The formula of faith is to hold on, work on, see it through, and let the distress of earlier hours—real or imagined—fall away in the abundance of the final reward.
My life is crowded with that abundance even now, if I have the patience to look for it.
Merry Christmas!
Other posts in this series:
Faith and fortitude—by Rozy
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