I loved this talk, The Atonement Covers All Pain by Kent Richards of the Seventy, during General Conference last week. It felt like he was speaking directly to me the whole time and his talk mirrors the lessons I have been learning over the past few months. Wonderful to have it confirmed! I was particularly touched by the following passages:
Pain is a gauge of the healing process, it often teaches us patience.
Elder Orson F Whitney wrote “No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to our education; to the development of such qualities as patience, faith, fortitude and humility. It is thought sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation that we gain the education that we come here to acquire.”
Elder Robert D. Hales “Pain brings you to a humility that allows you to ponder. It is an experience I am grateful to have endured. I learned that the physical pain and the healing of the body after major surgery are remarkably similar to the spiritual pain and the healing of the soul in the process of repentance. “
Opposition is part of Heavenly Fathers plan of happiness. We all encounter enough to bring us to awareness of our Father’s love and of our need for the Savior’s help. The Savior is not a silent observer. He himself knows personally and infinitely, he suffereth the pains of all men. Yea the pains of every living creature both men, women and children. Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
Sometimes in the depth of pain, we are tempted to ask, is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? The answer is yes, there is a physician. The atonement of Jesus Christ covers all these conditions and purposes of mortality.
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