• Charity,  Quotables,  Suggested Reads

    She Must Needs Have Charity

    The new year impulse to improve sat patiently in a corner of my heart through the holidays, biding its time until the bright merriment and bustle subsided and quiet rose in its place. It tiptoed close a few days ago as I began listening to President Russell M. Nelson’s April 2023 “Peacemakers Needed.” When he shared that “charity is the principal characteristic of a true follower of Jesus Christ” and described how an individual with the gift of charity behaves, it took me by the hand and asserted: “This. Seek this.” And charity suffereth long, and is kind, and envieth not, and is not puffed up, seeketh not her own,…