Adversity / Trials: 

• Additional Resources  -- Articles on Adversity

• A tragedy or a blessing?
• Adversity--Elder Hillam (excerpts from conf. talk)
• Adversity  -  quotes            (link to Daily WOOL)
• Alexander Solzhenitsyn

• "Cure for Sorrow"      (Short Chinese Tale)        *(link to Aspiring Community)

• Do Not Despair (link to Daily Wool Quotes)
• Don't Quit     (poem)

• Elder Holland tells of 3 bedridden sisters            (CR, Oct. 1994)
• "Equipment"    (poem)

• "Family Crucibles of Chronic Illness and Death",  BYU - Families Under Fire,  Dr. Susanne Frost Olsen
• From Candles to Soap

• God gives strength to overcome instead of eliminating adversity  (bike-wind story)
• God will have a tried people (poem:  Pain stayed so long, I said.....)  *(link to Aspiring Community)
• "Grandma's Cake"
  
• Grind or Shine

• He Will Ease Our Burdens
• Help for Families and Individual Dealing with Sexual Assault and Rape - Barbara Morrell, BYU Families Under Fire Conference, Oct. 2002

• "I Have a Problem"                       *(link to Aspiring Community)
• "If I Can Endure..."                      *(link to Sunlight of the Spirit)

• Jack Goaslind -      excerpt from CR April 1986,    "Happiness"  (bitter or stronger)

• Kassidy

• Leaving the City of Regret
• Lesson in Perspective     (excerpt from a BYU Dev. by Elaine Walton)
• Life's Struggles      (cocoon story--having to struggle to become strong)   (link to mormmom)
• Light in Darkness:  For persons struggling with psychological disorders, anchoring their lives in the gospel can provide longed-for peace.  Ensign, June 1998, p. 16

• "Make it a Good Day!"    -    New Era article by Elaine Cannon  -  October 1989
•  Mental Illness/Depression:  "In the Due Time of the Lord"  -  Meridian Magazine article
  
• "Monster in the Closet" (Depression) - Shondell S. Knowlton - BYU Families Under Fire Conference (need Adobe Acrobat to view talk)  - October 2002

• Mormon Ad:   "We All Have Our Ups and Downs...." (Sometimes we would like to skip over problems, but we have to solve them one step at a time)  -   New Era   -   June 1990
• Mormon Ad:  "You Can Conquer Giant Problems" (With God all things are possible) New Era, March 1990

• "Never Borrow Sorrow From Tomorrow"      (poem)     *(link to Aspiring Community)

• "Pathway of Pain"      (poem)       *(link to Aspiring Community)
• Perspective        (excerpt from CR, Oct. 1995, Janette Hales Beckham - clean oven story)

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• Quotes     (link to the Daily WOOL)

• Shake it Off and Step Up     (Parable of the Old Mule in the Well)
• Silver Linings  -  from the Spoken Word

• Teachings of our Church Leaders:
• The Cross Room
• The Dead Duck
• The Old Fisherman          *(link to Aspiring Community)
• The Road is Rough --  poem
• The Shut-In             (poem)
• "The Smell of Manure"  (short excerpt from BYU-Idaho Dev. 6/1/04
  
• The Trouble Pile                --             poem
• "Trials"  (blacksmith analogy--horse shoes, scrap heap)
• Trust In The Lord:  Elder Richard G. Scott      (Gen. Conf. Address, Oct. 1995)

• We can trust Him     (story of Heather shared by President Merrill Bateman, 1-7-97)
• What Can I Do to be Happy?
• Win Marsh      --     Talk given at 1997 Women's Conference at BYU