What thoughts and feelings come to you as you read this quote?<\/p>\n
Do you have days of feeling \u201cclouded\u201d or \u201ceclipsed?\u201d Perhaps tempted to believe life is just too hard?<\/p>\n
I was deeply touched by an article I read recently. Jeffrey R. Holland, a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints said,<\/p>\n
\u201cYou undoubtedly will have days, to quote Mr. Donne (John Donne, the English poet and cleric and dean of St. Paul\u2019s Cathedral in the 1500\u2019s), when you may feel dark, cold, \u2018clouded,\u2019 or \u2018eclipsed.\u2019 But if you desire God\u2019s mercy, I promise that help will come to you, \u2018not as in the dawning of the day, not as in the bud of the spring, but as the sun at (full) noon,\u2019 banishing every shadow. All occasions invite divine mercy, and in heaven it is always harvest time. Be secure and safe, today and always, in the victory of the kingdom of God over the troubles and ills of mortality. I am more certain of that victory than I am of any other thing I have ever learned\u2026.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n What thoughts and feelings come to you as you read this quote?<\/p>\n Do you have days of feeling \u201cclouded\u201d or \u201ceclipsed?\u201d Perhaps tempted to believe life is just too hard?<\/p>\n
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