“Each of us carries a
load. Our individual load is comprised of demands and opportunities,
obligations and privileges, afflictions and blessings, and options and
constraints. Sometimes we mistakenly may believe that happiness is the absence
of a load. But bearing a load is a necessary and essential part of the plan of
happiness. Because our individual load needs to generate spiritual traction, we
should be careful to not haul around in our lives so many nice but unnecessary
things that we are distracted and diverted from the things that truly matter
most.” David A. Bednar
