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Often I feel like enduring is my nemesis. I fear endurance is something that will cause me defeat in whatever I pursue. My Patriarchal Blessing counsels me to endure to the end. Jesus Christ counsels us to endure to the end, promising eternal life and happiness. Sometimes I don't feel hopeful I can make it. I am a good person. I try to be kind, thoughtful, clean, hard-working, and loving. I don't always reach those goals. I yell. I stomp. I throw things. I let the weeds grow wild (literally and metaphorically). I forget. I fall.

But,

I get back up again. 

I suppose that is true endurance--trying and trying again if and/or when failure occurs. The title of my blog comes from a talk given by a leader of my church, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, President Dieter F. Uchtdorf. I have read his words over and over, trying to glean hope and strategies of ways to endure. 

I love Jesus. As a result of this deep and abiding love, I keep going. There are dark moments, hours, days, weeks, and years. I have them. You have them. He is there for us through all of them. Sometimes we can't tell He is there. Sometimes we doubt and question. Sometimes we don't. Prayer, scripture study, church, temples, leaders, friends, family, the Holy Ghost, journal entries, and family history are all resources that can help us remain hopeful.

So, let's keep going. You and me and everyone else. We are all children of God. It is His job to take care of us. 

This is a record of my failures and my successes; basically, my enduring until the end.