Throughout my life I have always been grateful for the charity extended to me on this journey. I have felt love and acceptance. Others have been patient with me in spite of myself and my failings and it taught me a valuable lesson.
The words of this hymn are appropriate:
"Should you feel inclined to censure faults you may in others view, ask your own heart, ere you venture, if you have not failings, too.
Let no friendly vows be broken; rather strive a friend to gain. Many words in anger spoken find their passage home again.
Do not, then, in idle pleasure trifle with a brother's fame; guard it as a valued treasure, sacred as your own good name.
Do not form opinions blindly; hastiness to trouble tends; those of whom we thought unkindly oft become our warmest friends."
In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus taught:
"Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them; for this is the law and the prophets."(Matthew 7:12)
And in a revelation given through Joseph Smith, the Lord said "See that ye love one another."
(D&C 88:123)
