Strength: a team effort

"Be strong!", they say. "Stay strong", we tell ourselves.

But for each of us there are or will be times when we find that, in spite of it all, we are not as strong as we desire to be, or that our efforts to stay strong are, in reality, actually wearing our souls thin. 

Not being as strong as we desire to be is not failure. It is to be expected. It is to be human. That is life.  For we are created to find and develop strength not just in our own souls, by ourselves as we seek to do good, but also to find strength in the good lives that others share with us, and, most reliably, to find strength in our God,

"...the source of all true strength--the Savior.  Come unto him. He loves you...Make him your strength, your daily companion, your rod and your staff... There is no burden we need bear alone." **

Being strong enough to deal with all that our life entails is not a solo performance.  It is divinely created to be a team effort.  Welcome to the team.

**quote: Cheiko Okazaki, Ensign, Nov. 1993, p. 96