Robert D. Hales gave a great talk on spiritual self-reliance during the saturday morning session of General Conference. Here is the link: talk. The quote that struck me was as follows:
"In addition to the spiritual self-reliance we have ben discussing, there is temporal self-reliance, which includes getting a postsecondary education or vocational training, learning to work, and living within our means. By avoiding debt and saving money now, we are prepared for full-time Church service in the years to come. The purpose of both temporal and spiritual self-reliance is to get ourselves on higher ground so that we can lift others in need." Robert D. Hales.
I had never looked at self-reliance in this view before. I knew that we needed to be self-reliant in order to help our families, but I hadn't seen it in the view of being able to lift others up.
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