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The visiting teaching message for June was on exercising charity and serving those in need<\/a>. I appreciate topics like this but it always brings to mind the irony of it. We are told to be charitable. To give and humbly receive. We are also counselled to be self-sufficient. So on one had we have folks telling us to accept help, and reach out to others and on the other, we’re told to suck it up and do it all on our own. It seems as though these two principles oppose one another. What are your thoughts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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