"We may tend to perceive work as unpleasant or compulsory drudgery, toil and labor. However, our understanding of the Father's plan of happiness helps us to recognize that work is a necessity of spiritual progress. As sons and daughters of God each of of us has a divine nature and destiny and has inherited spiritual capacities from Him. Our Heavenly Father and His Beloved Son are creators and they have entrusted to us in mortality portions of their creative powers. Our particular ability to work and create is significant spiritually precisely because it is central to the Father's plan and constitutes one of the ultimate expressions of our divine potential."
Elder Bednar then shared this marvelous quote from President Thomas Monson:
"God left the world unfinished for men and women to work their skill upon.
He left the electricity in the cloud, the oil in the earth.
He left the rivers unbridged and the forests unfelled and the cities unbuilt.
God gives to us the challenge of raw materials, not the ease of finished tings.
He leaves the pictures unpainted the music unsung and the problems unsolved, that we might know the joys and glories of creation."
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