{"id":4737,"date":"2025-06-20T16:07:52","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T23:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/?p=4737"},"modified":"2025-06-20T16:07:52","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T23:07:52","slug":"we-want-to-know-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/we-want-to-know-why\/","title":{"rendered":"We Want to Know Why"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap has-medium-font-size\">Still, we mortals quite naturally want to know the why. Yet, in pressing too earnestly for the answer, we may forget that mortality was designed, in a manner of speaking, as the season of unanswered questions. Mortality has a different, more narrowly defined purpose: It is a proving ground, a probationary state, a time to walk by faith, a time to prepare to meet God. It is in nurturing humility and submissiveness that we may comprehend a fulness of the intended mortal experience and put ourselves in a frame of mind and heart to receive the promptings of the Spirit. Reduced to their essence, humility and submissiveness are an expression of complete willingness to let the \u201cwhy\u201d questions go unanswered for now, or perhaps even to ask, \u201cWhy not?\u201d It is in enduring well to the end that we achieve this life\u2019s purposes. &#8211;&nbsp;<em>Lance B. Wickman, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchofjesuschrist.org\/study\/general-conference\/2002\/10\/but-if-not?lang=eng\">But If Not<\/a>,\u201d Ensign (CR) November 2002<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Still, we mortals quite naturally want to know the why. Yet, in pressing too earnestly for the answer, we may forget that mortality was designed, in a manner of speaking, as the season of unanswered questions. Mortality has a different, more narrowly defined purpose: It is a proving ground, a probationary state, a time to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[229,375],"class_list":["post-4737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wool-quote","tag-endure-to-the-end","tag-submissiveness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4738,"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4737\/revisions\/4738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}