“Sandwiched between…“once upon a time”, Dieter F. Uchtdorf tells us, “and “happily ever after,”…all [have] to experience great adversity.”
OK…so we’ve experienced it…and we’re walking through it. We’ve established heartwood...captured our vision...moved forward with faith, walked step by step and now we are coming through adversity.
So… “Give us the wages of going on,” we echo Tennyson’s plea.
Our hero of the swamp—Wilford Woodruff—could have echoed it as well as he walked those last three days through knee-high muddy water making for Memphis.
Where’s our ‘happily ever after’?
Life has been compared to a three-act play. We are hurled into life in the middle of the second act when the conflict takes place. The play’s author has given us a script of sorts…and surrounded us with other actors from whom we can get clues to our part in the play.
“Remember this!” Boyd K. Packer admonitions us, “The line “And they all lived happily ever after” is never written into the second act. That Line belongs in the third act when the mysteries are solved and everything is put right…”
So for now…as in the middle of every good fairy tale…we face the conflict with the same skill-set that Wilford Woodruff took to his challenges—heartwood, vision, faith, prayer, and step-by-step diligence.
For now we rejoice in the journey.
And, eventually, when the third act dawns, so will our ‘happily ever after.’
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