994. Why Suffering Is Good for Us and How It Can Make Us Happy byDr. Taylor Halverson | Jan. 17, 2018, in LDS Living
None of us want to suffer, but if we look back on times in our lives in which we endured some type of suffering, we realize how much we learned from them. It helps us be able to understand others who are also going through pain now, and to have charity and compassion for them. Why Suffering Is Good for Us and How It Can Make Us Happy by Dr. Taylor Halverson | Jan. 17, 2018 Makes You Think Comments We all have difficult, challenging, painful experiences in life. Though never pleasant, these experiences can teach us perspective, love, humility, endurance, patience, and ultimately, how to be more like God. Consider the story of Abraham and Sarah. These two faithful individuals endured what seemed like never-ending setbacks and suffering. God sent Abraham away from his homeland to a new promised land. What was the result? Abraham and Sarah discovered a land languishing in famine. Abraham and Sarah moved on to Egypt, only to hav