and I told myself -- as I've told myself before -- that the body shuts down then the pain gets too bad, that consciousness is temporary, that this will pass. But just like always, I didn't slip away. I was left on the shore with the waves washing over me, unable to drown.
Elder Maxwell on Wintry DoctrinesElder Maxwell said that __f we are serious about our discipleship Jesus will eventually request each of us to do those very things which are most difficult for us to do.__his was what he came to call the wintry doctrine at the funeral of a young father in 1996 he put it this way __here are in the gospel warm and cuddly doctrines and then there are some that are just outright wintry doctrines_ one of them frankly is that we cannot approach real consecration without passing through appropriate clinical experiences because we don__ achieve consecration in the abstract. _ sometimes therefore the best people have the worst experiences_ because they are the most ready to learn._ (Bruce C. Hafen, The Story of A Disciple__ Life: Preparing the Biography of Neal A. Maxwell, p. 14)
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Elder Maxwell on Wintry DoctrinesElder Maxwell said that __f we are serious about our discipleship Jesus will eventually request each of us to do those very things which are most difficult for us to do.__his was what he came to call the wintry doctrine at the funeral of a young father in 1996 he put it this way __here are in the gospel warm and cuddly doctrines and then there are some that are just outright wintry doctrines_ one of them frankly is that we cannot approach real consecration without passing through appropriate clinical experiences because we don__ achieve consecration in the abstract. _ sometimes therefore the best people have the worst experiences_ because they are the most ready to learn._ (Bruce C. Hafen, The Story of A Disciple__ Life: Preparing the Biography of Neal A. Maxwell, p. 14)
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