Eyes glisten with glad humor. Being willing to laugh at oneself, especially at what is fake and foolish, is often the beginning of growth in spiritual sensitivity. Sometimes things only stop hurting when you laugh whole-souled laughter. In practical drudgery . Wilford Woodruff, hoe in hand, felt just as much consecrated as with the Book of Mormon.
Sweat is as real a token of love as is the sound of a choir.
Draw Him in to the heat of the day. I am in the work of the kingdom, the lighter the load. Exhaustion does not come from involvement, but from the ceaseless throb of nervous shirking, the emotional strains of the slacker. And work with Him is energizing instead of enervating. In dark problems of misunderstanding and friction.