Onward

There isn't a lot of slowing down in life.  It just seems to keep going.  So what do we do?  We press forward, we continue onward. There was the talk a few conferences ago, I don't remember who it was that spoke, I suppose I could look it up.  Anyway, the message was that hanging in there is not a principal of the gospel.  It was part of the message anyway.  I have managed to almost eliminate hanging in there from my vocabulary and focus more on pressing forward.  Pressing forward with faith in Christ. That doesn't mean that life is roses and there are never any problems. On the contrary, pressing forward involves pushing through and carrying on during the hard times as well as easier times. We don't give up, we don't quit, we carry on.  This math class has required that I press forward when I have not wanted to.  I have had moments when I wanted to quit, when it took everything I had to keep going. The assignments keep coming.  I can't just hang in there and hope to progress.  I have to work, I have to study, I have to try and I have to do.  Sometimes that work turns out great and sometimes that work requires that I work even harder to progress.  Whatever the situation, we must have the faith to keep going.