Every once and a while we should be glad our will didn’t come to pass

Repentance , p.31
How often have you and I in our provincialism prayed to see ahead and, mercifully, have been refused, lest our view of the present be blurred? How many times have we been blessed by not having our prayers answered, at least according to the specifications set forth in our petitions? How many times have frustrating, even gruelling, experiences from which we have sought relief turned out, later on, to have been part of a necessary preparation that led to much more happiness? “And now when Alma heard this, . . . he beheld that their afflictions had truly humbled them, and that they were in a preparation to hear the word.” (Alma 32:6; italics added.)

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