I often struggle with selfishness. I get irritated when I have to stop what I'm doing and help one of my children do things I would rather not be doing. However, I know that as we begin to selflessly serve those in our family, we grow to love them more. Elder Eyring said this:
“Just as Jesus used a child in His mortal ministry as an example for the people of the pure love they must and could have to be like Him, He has offered us the family as an example of an ideal setting in which we can learn how to love as He loves.“That is because the greatest joys and the greatest sorrows we experience are in family relationships. The joys come from putting the welfare of others above our own. That is what love is.”
Henry B. Eyring, “Our Perfect Example,” Ensign, Nov. 2009, 70-71
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