Everything that the Lord taught was to heal the soul. When you are living day to day, its easy to get weighed down by the weight of your existence. "In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world" (John 16:33). Our feelings come and go but our pride can last forever and only we can give that up. Pride and indictments on others is a sure way to find yourself in turmoil. If you give up your pride and forgive, you will have a friend or at least freedom from your hard feelings.
"He who diggeth a pit for them shall fall into the same himself" (DC 109:25). Whatever bad thing you wish to curse others with, will have the opposite effect. If you wish to get vengence then you will be the one who has that judgment. Vengence is the Lord's. "But I say unto you, that whosoever is angry with his brother shall be in danger of his judgment" (3 Nephi 12:22). "Take heed what ye hear: with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you" (Mark 4:24).
“Wherefore, I say unto you, that ye ought to forgive one another; for he that forgiveth not his brother his trespasses standeth condemned before the Lord; for there remaineth in him the greater sin. “I, the Lord, will forgive whom I will forgive, but of you it is required to forgive all men” (D&C 64:9–10). Forgiveness is a way to free yourself and others from the enslavement of your pride and despising.
Whatever we send out will return unto us. "Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest. And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together" (John 4:35-36). "For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it" (Matthew 16:25).
If we only do go to those that do good to us then what is our righteousness? We don't have any. But, if we "love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil" (Luke 6:35).
To be a Christian is to be a giver without expectation of receiving. To lend without hopes of it returning. By doing this we are free from the pettiness of materialism and selfishness. We are free from seeking to be filled with vain things that cannot make us whole. What do we need to be whole? More money, power, popularity, a superior intellect, clothes, a house, superiority over others, food, or sex? No. Those things cannot make us feel whole. They might make us feel a whole lot better for a bit but soon the desire for more sets in and our hole gets deeper. Christ taught that we are whole when we are at one with God and with our neighbor. Our wholeness depends on our love and how much we give, not how much we have.
You can be whole or keeping digging your hole.
