Quotables
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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,…
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Life Finds a Way
Well, folks, it’s happened. An apostle of the Lord quoted Jurassic Park in General Conference. See for yourself: The lesson here? Always check the footnotes. If you read my last post (Sweat If You Need To) and liked the incremental gains concept treated there, I think you’ll really enjoy the address this rad footnote is from—Daily Restoration by Elder Dieter F. Uchtdorf. Do you want to change the shape of your life? Change the shape of your day. Do you want to change your day? Change this hour. Change what you think, feel, and do at this very moment. A small rudder can steer a large ship. Small bricks can…
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Sagebrush
Sometimes, we talk about our funerals. I want the congregation to sing “Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing.” Dad prefers “How Great Thou Art,” and Mom’s choice is “I Believe in Christ.” Mom wants sagebrush to be part of the floral spray on her coffin. When she was a young adult, she visited a friend in Washington, D.C. They traveled to New York City and she found herself powerful homesick. She’d never seen roll-up security gates on storefronts, and the amount of people and concrete was overwhelming. On the drive back to Utah, she rejoiced when she could see wide open high mountain desert vistas and smell the sharp, clean…
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If You Decide To…
Did you grow up reading Choose Your Own Adventure books? If not, I’m sorry, because they are amazing. Each book casts you as the protagonist of a thrilling tale, and with every page, you make a choice. “If you decide to hide in the cargo hold, turn to page 16. If you decide to make a run for the hangar, turn to page 23.” You decide to run for it but, hedging your bets, you keep a finger in page 16 just in case your gamble results in capture and game over. Enough turns of the story in, and you’ve resorted to using strips of paper from a Lisa Frank…