Elder Joseph B. WirthlinI have been wanting to post something about Elder Wirthlin's passing. His talks are some of my favorites and I always looked forward to hearing him speak. Although I never met him, he seemed to me to be a truly humble, genuine man, which is certainly a rare thing in our world today. I will miss him.
Here are some of my recent favorites of his talks:
"Come What May, and Love It"
"The Great Commandment"
"Sunday Will Come"
Here's a quote from "The Great Commandment":
True love lasts forever. It is eternally patient and forgiving. It believes, hopes, and endures all things. That is the love our Heavenly Father bears for us.
We all yearn to experience love like this. Even when we make mistakes, we hope others will love us in spite of our shortcomings—even if we don’t deserve it.
Oh, it is wonderful to know that our Heavenly Father loves us—even with all our flaws! His love is such that even should we give up on ourselves, He never will.
We see ourselves in terms of yesterday and today. Our Heavenly Father sees us in terms of forever. Although we might settle for less, Heavenly Father won’t, for He sees us as the glorious beings we are capable of becoming.
The gospel of Jesus Christ is a gospel of transformation. It takes us as men and women of the earth and refines us into men and women for the eternities.
The means of this refinement is our Christlike love. There is no pain it cannot soften, no bitterness it cannot remove, no hatred it cannot alter. The Greek playwright Sophocles wrote: “One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.”
The most cherished and sacred moments of our lives are those filled with the spirit of love. The greater the measure of our love, the greater is our joy. In the end, the development of such love is the true measure of success in life.
I hope I can follow Elder Wirthlin's example and achieve this kind of success in my life.
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