All Things Shall Give Thee Experience

The Reframe

Before: "That was a bad day. That was a wasted year." After: "All these things shall give me experience, and shall be for my good."

Scripture Anchor

"All these things shall give thee experience, and shall be for thy good." — D&C 122:7In plain terms: The verse comes at the end of a long list of worst-case scenarios — betrayal, false accusation, prison, danger to family. Even that list, God says, becomes experience that serves you. Nothing is pure waste.

Adams eliminates the category of "bad days" — every day is useful, just in different ways. D&C 122:7 makes the stronger claim: not just useful, but for your good. The hard day taught you something the easy day couldn't. The failure revealed the weak joint before it mattered more. The season of grief carved out the capacity you now comfort others with.

This doesn't require pretending pain is pleasant. It requires refusing to write off any stretch of your life as garbage. If all things give experience, then no day is deleted — every one is raw material, and your job is only to mine it.

How to Apply

End hard days with one question: "What was this day useful for?"
Keep a short log; patterns of "useless" days almost always turn out to be training
Retire the phrase "wasted time" — replace it with "what did it give me?"
When comforting others, draw on your own hard seasons; that's the experience paying out

Mantra

"All these things shall give me experience. No day is wasted."

Original Reframe

Adapted from All Days Are Useful in Different Ways (Scott Adams, Reframe Your Brain).