I buried my head in my hands, suddenly realizing the source of all my anguish. My therapist had finally succeeded in pulling from me the cause of all my mounting frustration and feelings of failure: I just want to get it right. And having finally admitted that longing, I sensed how deeply I felt I had been "getting it all wrong."
It was one I had learned in Primary--the story about Heavenly Father presenting a plan to His children that would "enable us to become like him and receive a fullness of joy" ("Plan of Salvation," lds.org). One of God's children, Satan, rebelled against this plan and "sought to destroy of the agency of man" (Moses 4:3). Doing away with agency, or choice, essentially meant that options and decisions wouldn't matter, that everything we did would be "right" because there ...
Why Trying So Hard to "Get It Right" Isn't Christ's Plan for Us
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