Ministering . . . how we learn faith, hope and charity
Last week in our weekly Pathway Gathering, we spent the first few minutes sharing some of what we had learned from our Christlike Attributes project. One in the group mentioned that she had chosen to focus on the attribute of hope. As she had studied and pondered on it, she realized that you could not have hope without faith and that you could not have either of those without charity. This had me pondering a bit the following day. The day after that was the beginning of General Conference and so my thoughts became focused there. As I watch, I always try to look for patterns or themes I am noticing so that I can pay particular attention as I study over the next six months. The pattern I saw emerging was ministering. I wondered if it was because so much of my focus in my callings the last few years has been on learning and teaching about ministering. When I was put in the Relief Society presidency a few ye...