Charity - Marvin J Ashton Quote

"Perhaps the greatest charity comes when we are kind to each other, when we don’t judge or categorize someone else, when we simply give each other the benefit of the doubt or remain quiet. Charity is accepting someone’s differences, weaknesses, and shortcomings; having patience with someone who has let us down; or resisting the impulse to become offended when someone doesn’t handle something the way we might have hoped. Charity is refusing to take advantage of another’s weakness and being willing to forgive someone who has hurt us. Charity is expecting the best of each other," (Marvin J Ashton, April Conference, 1992).

I found this quote among my missionary stuff while sorting and cleaning it out yesterday. It just struck me as a fantastic insight into charity and also Joseph. He never acted other than this way. He expected his brothers to behave uprightly, Potipher's wife to act appropriately, the butler to get him out and his brothers to have changed. Although the world may see his charity as having caused him so much grief through those people, I see that he gained everything in this world and the world to come because of it. He was truly blessed for his adaptation of charity into his life.