"[My father] was suffering through the end of a long struggle with bone cancer. He still weighed enough and was in such pain that it was hard work to move him from a chair to his bed. Others far more heroic than spent the months and the days caring for him. But I took some turns on the midnight-to-dawn shift....
"One night when I was not with him and the pain seemed more than he could bear, he somehow got out of bed and on his knees beside it -I know not how. He pled with God to know why he was suffering so. And the next morning he said, with quiet firmness, "I know why now. God needs brave sons." "
Henry B. Eyring, BYU Devotional, 18 November 1986
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