"Life is like an old-time rail journey - delays, sidetracks, smoke, dust, cinders, and jolts, interspersed only occasionally by beautiful vistas and thrilling bursts of speed. The trick is to thank the Lord for letting you have the ride." - Jenkin Lloyd Jones
In our world of instant gratification, people are always looking for that next thrill. There seems to be an endless search for happiness, looking for those things that please the natural man. Movies and television programs promise us that if we choose to partake of the things of the world that our lives will be better. Of course these rarely portray the seedier side of the world. Alcoholism, drug addiction, or the pain caused by extra-marital affairs is rarely exposed, yet with glib indifference the characters of these shows demonstrate how these things supposedly contribute to a better life.
Our lives are meant to be challenging. Our purpose here is to learn how to become like our Father in Heaven, and this can only be achieved through obedience to His commandments. None of us here can expect to have a life devoid of problems, and those who adopt the ways of the world to avoid their problems will often find that their issues are larger than the ones they started out trying to avoid. I hope that we can take the advice in this quote and, when things are not as smooth as we might like them, we will remember that it is all just part of our experience here.
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