We feel more charitable and compassionate with each other. We are more calm in our relationships. We have a greater capacity to love each other. We are more godly in our character. I would like to discuss four attitudes and actions to help us.
Prayer is foremost.
When we kneel down and we thank the Lord for blessings, being truly grateful in specific ways, we grow humble in our awe of all he has done for us. As we pray we come to know our dependence on the Lord. Meekness prepares us to accept his will. I remember Janet Lee speaking of the trials she and her husband, Rex Lee, had at the time of his cancer. In her prayers she at first tried to reason and bargain with the Lord, telling Him how useful her husband still was.