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I've been thinking a lot about enduring things well  and how bad I am at doing that. It's so hard to look past the hard things and just enjoy life as it is in the moment. Most of the things that I'm, not necessarily worried about, but that I wish would just hurry and happen are somewhat small except for a few. And every single one of them is going to be a learning experience.

I was just thinking the other day about how much more I would enjoy life if I took it seriously, but not so serious that all I thought about was the serious...does that make any sense? I would enjoy my husband and my baby more. I'm always feeling like I need to be in a hurry. What is the point in being in a hurry in life? There isn't one! I'm just now learning this! AHH! It's so easy to dwell on the trials we face than it is to just be grateful for the opportunity to have personal and spiritual growth. Don't get me wrong I don't kneel in prayer everyday asking for trials, but they will come so we might as well have the attitude of this quote- "Come What May and Love It." 

"Problems or trials in our lives need to be viewed in the perspective of scriptural doctrine. Otherwise they can easily overtake our vision, absorb our energy, and deprive us of the joy and beauty the Lord intends us to receive here on earth.  ...When submerged in a problem, fight to be free to bob up to serve again with happiness.

The Lord is intent on your personal growth and development. That progress is accelerated when you willingly allow Him to lead you through every growth experience you encounter, whether initially it be your individual liking or not. When you trust in the Lord, when you are willing to let your heart and your mind be centered on His will, when you ask to be led by the Spirit to do His will, you are assured of the greatest happiness along the way and the most fulfilling attainment from this mortal experience. If you question everything you are asked to do, or dig in your heels at every unpleasant challenge, you make it harder for the Lord to bless you."

Elder Richard G. Scott of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.