A thought from the scriptures
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"We will never make a journey of a thousand miles by fretting about how long it will take or how hard it will be," said Elder Joseph B. Wirthlin of the Quorum of the Twelve during the October 2001 general conference. "We make the journey by taking each day step by step and then repeating it again and again until we reach our destination. …
"Our Heavenly Father loves each one of us and understands that this process of climbing higher takes preparation, time, and commitment. He understands that we will make mistakes at times, that we will stumble, that we will become discouraged and perhaps even wish to give up and say to ourselves it is not worth the struggle.
"We know it is worth the effort, for the prize, which is eternal life, is 'the greatest of all the gifts of God' (Doctrine and Covenants 14:7). And to qualify, we must take one step after another and keep going to gain the spiritual heights we aspire to reach.
"An eternal principle is revealed in holy writ: 'It is not requisite that a man should run faster than he has strength. And again, it is expedient that he should be diligent, that thereby he might win the prize' (Mosiah 4:27).
"We don't have to be fast; we simply have to be steady and move in the right direction. We have to do the best we can, one step after another."
