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My yoke is easy, and my burden is light

My yoke is easy, and my burden is light

(based on the talk " His Yoke Is Easy and His Burden Is Light " by Sister J. Anette Dennis - First Counselor in the Relief Society General Presidency, Oct 2022) What comes to your mind when you hear this quote?   Matthew 11:28–30 - It is the best advertisement. The world's ads usually promise you a product which will fix all of your problems. The world and our natural man try to tells us that having difficulties is not normal and we should try to make our life better for ourselves. That there is a pill for any type of pain and our goal is to eliminate all difficulties. Jesus's ads are different - they are real. He doesn't tell you that He will eliminate all your pain and you will be 100% happy, all the time. But rather He tells us that: it is part of God's plan for us to go thru difficulties and the best way to go thru them is to do it in His way. To come unto Him and learn of Him and then we will receive peace, not a temporal, but lasting peace, not like the ...