Personal Strength and Healing

Maybe you feel the desire to be a better spouse, parent, or child.  Maybe you are trying very hard to make yourself more ready and worthy to enter into marriage to your best friend.  Maybe you are just hurting and do not know what to do.  

Here are a couple very good resources that are focused on healing and using the atonement to have strength to make it through this life.

David A. Bednar - In the Strength of the Lord

A talk on learning to use the atonement of the Lord in all stages of life.  Going from bad to good and then from good to better.
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As you and I come to understand and employ the enabling power of the atonement in our personal lives, we will pray and seek for strength to change our circumstances rather than praying for our circumstances to be changed. We will become agents who act rather than objects that are acted upon 

Most of us clearly understand that the atonement is for sinners. I am not so sure, however, that we know and understand that the atonement is also for saints--for good men and women who are obedient and worthy and conscientious and who are striving to become better and serve more faithfully. I frankly do not think many of us "get it" concerning this enabling and strengthening aspect of the atonement, and I wonder if we mistakenly believe we must make the journey from good to better and become a saint all by ourselves, through sheer grit, willpower, and discipline, and with our obviously limited capacities.

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James E. Faust - He Healeth The Broken In Heart
A vary good talk on turning yourself over to the Healing of the Lord
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Our hurry to meet the relentless demands of the clock tears away at our inner peace. The pressures to compete and survive are great. Our appetite for personal possessions seems enormous. The increasing forces that destroy the individual and family bring great sadness and heartbreak.

...faith and hope will replace heartache, disappointment, torment, anguish, and despair, and the Lord will give us strength...

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