Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Although conflict is hard and struggles may not be fun, conflict can and should help your family to grow together if handled the correct way. We are provided with conflict and struggles to help us to grow and improve, this is part of our Heavenly Father's plan to help us become more like him. Just as individual trials refine us personally, family conflict and trials can also help us to grow and refine us. Doctrine and Covenants 121:7-8 says "My son, peace be unto thy soul; thine adversity and thine afflictions shall be but a small moment; and then if thou endure it well, God shall exalt thee on high; thou shalt triumph over all thy foes." Both of these scriptural accounts tell us that we can overcome and be strengthened by adversity or conflict. Also in Doctrine and Covenants 122 it says:  If thou art called to pass through atribulation; if thou art in perils among false brethren; if thou art in bperils among robbers; if thou art in perils by land or by sea;
 If thou art aaccused with all manner of false accusations; if thine enemies fall upon thee; if they tear thee from the society of thy father and mother and brethren and sisters; and if with a drawn sword thine enemies tear thee from the bosom of thy wife, and of thine offspring, and thine elder son, although but six years of age, shall cling to thy garments, and shall say, My father, my father, why can’t you stay with us? O, my father, what are the men going to do with you? and if then he shall be thrust from thee by the sword, and thou be dragged to bprison, and thine enemies prowl around thee like cwolves for the blood of the lamb;
 And if thou shouldst be cast into the apit, or into the hands of murderers, and the sentence of death passed upon thee; if thou be cast into the bdeep; if the billowing surge conspire against thee; if fierce winds become thine enemy; if the heavens gather blackness, and all the elements combine to chedge up the way; and above all, if the very jaws of dhell shall gape open the mouth wide after thee, know thou, my son, that all these things shall give theeeexperience, and shall be for thy good."
Both of these scriptural accounts tell us that we can overcome and be strengthened by adversity or conflict.

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