The spiritual life consists of many virtues and activities- earnest prayer, scripture study, love of fellowman, caring service, to name a few. Undergirding all, it seems, is attitude toward God. Here Elder Neal A. Maxwell shows how crucial is that element. For the disciple, he points out, the teaching and example of Jesus Christ shows an inescapable pattern- submission always to the Father's will. The Savior's greatest test and greatest triumph- the love-inspired Atonement- capsulizes and personifies this spirit: "Not my will, but thine." As he bore and "learned . . . obedience by the things which he suffered," so we should bear our infinitely lighter burdens or problems, whether they result from life's vicissitudes or from our Father's deliberate tutoring process.
