Welcome to Part 2 with Dr. Lily Anderson in First Kings.

You know, I'd like to think that she would have continued faithful.

That even in that moment of crisis, she would have gone on because she had already faced one crisis where she was going to make her last meal for herself and her son, and she gave it to the prophet.

That's a pretty good response to a breaking

point. So I'd like to think she would have gotten past this one, too, but it made me think of other

breaking points, like Job, who is described as a perfect man, but loses so much that he does

go into a pretty serious depression. And then his friends turn against him. And then even his wife gets on his case.

Abraham was past that because he gets this command to take his son of promise. He had to send the

other son away. And this is in his old years. He has this son of promise who believes and will carry on

the priesthood. And God says,

take him up on the mountain. And do to him what your father did to you. Your pagan father,

who took you to be a human sacrifice to idols. But don't worry because I'm the living God,

so it'll be okay. He gets up early the next morning.

That's what he does with his breaking point.

I'm stunned and so grateful for these examples.

Joseph Smith.

I'm sure there was more than one moment in the prophet's life that felt like a breaking point,

but one of them is very visible in Liberty Tale,

where he feels abandoned and expresses

that in heartrending language. But what does he do? He takes it to God. He doesn't turn away.

He takes his heartbreak to God. I don't know why we would think that that beautiful response in Section 121 came the first day he was in Liberty Jail.

I mean, he was there four and a half months. He persisted and he kept reaching for Christ. He didn't get the answer immediately, but he was ready for it when it came

...