Latter-day Saints

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I do not often stop to consider why, in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, we are called saints.  It certainly isn't because we have reached perfection!  Elder Renlund in a 2015 general conference talk called "Latter-day Saints Keep Trying" said,

"If we don’t try, we’re just latter-day sinners; if we don’t persevere, we’re latter-day quitters; and if we don’t allow others to try, we’re just latter-day hypocrites.  As we try, persevere, and help others to do the same, we are true Latter-day Saints. As we change, we will find that God indeed cares a lot more about who we are and about who we are becoming than about who we once were."

I like so many things about this quote, but maybe especially that we don't need to look back and keep regretting the same things over and over.  We cannot re-do the past.  We can focus forward and trust that God cares more about who we are than who we were, and He will help us to become who we were meant to be.