The Atonement Covers All Pain - Kent F. Richards
How personal is this topic for every person? To help us understand the broad scope of the gift the Savior offers, Elder Richards mentions many types of pain and explains that pain is a gauge of the healing process:
- Pain from an illness or surgery
- Spiritual Pain from sin or transgression
- Unexpected events
- Contradicting or disappointing circumstances
- Interrupting illness
- Death
- Actions of others
- Worry
- Fear
- Distress
What is to be learned from Pain? Certainly these lessons are there for us to learn about our purpose in mortality:
- Patience
- Gratitude
- Compassion
- Love
- Humility
- Long-suffering
- Empathy
Most of all we learn that the Savior is the physician for all this pain. He understands because He sought the experience of the pains of all mankind that He may draw us to Him. As President Henry B. Eyring taught: “It will comfort us when we must wait in distress for the Savior’s promised relief that He knows, from experience, how to heal and help us. … And faith in that power will give us patience as we pray and work and wait for help. He could have known how to succor us simply by revelation, but He chose to learn by His own personal experience.”
I can only recommend you read the experience regarding 13 year-old Sherrie contained in his talk. Stunning, but just one of the gifts that was given to this young girl and her family. How close He is when we need Him.
I am grateful for the insight this great talk gave me in relation to this very personal topic.
Gems I gained from Elder Richards remarks were that the Savior is not a silent observer - He suffered all. To be cured from our sinful actions we must repent and return. We need to wait patiently after being refined, we must endure to the end when asking for cures of any kind that we ask for for ourselves or for others. Asking and then saying, "if it be thy will."
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