“One of today’s great challenges is learning to conquer fear
and despair in order to overcome trials and temptations. It takes only a few
moments for us to open a newspaper, scroll the web, or hear a news broadcast
on radio or television to be confronted with distressing accounts of crime and
natural calamities that happen every day.
“Understanding the promises in scripture concerning how the
Lord will conquer evil and how truth will conquer error can help us face the
future with hope and optimism. In today’s world we see war, natural calamities,
and economic crises. At times these events are not just things we observe from
a distance but are things that affect us personally.
“There is no need for us to mourn lost worldly possessions
or to fixate on the temporal, for those things can rob us of the joy of the
simple, sublime things of life.”
Elder Jose A. Teixeira, “Facing the Future With Hope,”
Ensign, July 2012, 16-17.
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