Life continues to be the test.  Virtually every day something happens to me or someone I love that tests some part of me. I am sort of used to it, but continually surprised at just what it might be.  I try not to count anything that isn't family, but even there I find myself affected almost every day.  Course the family is big enough that there is something there daily too.  And as much as a prophet's advice has been to decide once so when a decision comes up the question has already been decided it seems that some things just require a confirmation or commitment over and over.  I hope that isn't because I step backward sometimes (which I do) but because it is just the nature of the 'furnace' that life is.   I do agree with something that I said this past week and also heard in priesthood on Sunday:  when it comes down to it we almost always choose the troubles and trials that we have rather then the troubles and trials that we see in the lives of others.  So, I accept that 'it is what it is' and I'll keep what it is in my life over what test others have, and keep on stumbling on day after day despite my seemingly lack of progress.