Adversity ~ President Henry B. Eyring

As though President Eyring were speaking to me, he said,

“Even though extended and loving service to people is richly rewarded, you have learned that there are physical, emotional and financial limits to what is possible.  The person giving care long enough can become the one who needs care.”  He then referred to the inspired counsel given by the “Master Nuturer” to weary caregivers delivered by King Benjamin emphasizing the warning for those of us “who might fail to respond to the evidence that [we] are pushing on too far and too long in [our] loving service”:  “And see that all these things are done in wisdom and order; for it is not requisite that a man [or any caregiver] should run faster than he has strength.  And again, it is expedient that he should be diligent, that thereby he might win the prize; therefore, all things must be done in order.”

 ~ President Henry B. Eyring, "The Caregiver," General Conference, October 2012.