A young man emerged from a college final exam, a bit dazed from the three-hour ordeal. Waiting for him were his wife and young daughter. “In a voice edged with ecstasy,” the little girl called out, “There’s my Daddy!” The young man held his daughter tightly and “glanced over her head to the loving, encouraging look in the face of his wife … He would recover from what had happened to him in that examination—and quickly—for his present was rich with past commitment and future promise.”
Past commitment and future promise, especially when we take an eternal perspective, are what get us through the rough spots of our daily lives. These commitments and promises can indeed make our present rich no matter the challenges.
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“Strangers and Pilgrims”: The Challenge of the Real, p 41, Robert K. Thomas; in BYU Studies, Vol. 49 • No. 4 • 2010
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