Precious in His Sight

Remember the worth of souls is great in the sight of God.

Doctrine and Covenants 18:10

Something Just for SUNday: Virtue

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SUN days

The Lord's way is not hard. 

Life is hard, not the gospel.

Lawrence E. Corbridge

Dear You,

Thank you for your lesson yesterday. It helped to remind me how to behave today if I want my life to look like yours tomorrow. (Or 40 years from now.)

Love,

Me

P.S. I'm getting this framed:

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"I don't want to drive up to the pearly gates in a shiny sports car, 
wearing beautifully, tailored clothes, my hair expertly coiffed, 
and with long, perfectly manicured fingernails. 

I want to drive up in a station wagon that has mud on the wheels from taking kids to scout camp. 

I want to be there with a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt 
from making sandwiches for a sick neighbors children. 

I want to be there with a little dirt under my fingernails from helping to weed someone's garden. 

I want to be there with children's sticky kisses on my cheeks 
and the tears of a friend on my shoulder. 

I want the Lord to know I was really here and that I really lived."

Marjorie Pay Hinckley

I Read NieNie

My New Life

via nienie

"There are moments in my life when I feel my spirit is tapping my heart to remind me just why I mortally exist. Today I had more of those moments..."

Stephanie Nielson

For Chelsea

"I just called to say I want you to come back home."

the message of this moment is so clear,

and is certain as the rising of the sun -

if your world is filled with darkness doubt or fear, 

just hold on, hold on, the light will come.

everyone who's ever tried and failed

stands much taller when the victory's won.

and those who've been in darkness for a while,

they kneel much longer when the light is come.

its a lesson that everyone of us must learn,

that the answers never come without a fight.

and when it seems you've struggled far too long,

just hold on, hold on, there will be light.

hold on. hold on.

the light will come.

hold on.

if you feel trapped inside a never ending night,

hold on if you've forgotten how it feels to feel the light,

hold on if you're half crazy thinking you're the only one 

who's afraid the light will never really come.

just hold on. 

hold on. 

the light will come. 

hold on. 

hold on.

the light will come.

you're not alone. 

even though right now you're on your own, 

you are loved in ways that can't be shown.

your needs are known. 

you're not alone.

and when you cry, 

you're just letting go of heart-ache deep inside.

for tomorrow there will be sunshine in the sky

and love close by.

you're not alone.

and i know that its not easy.

and i know that it won't last.

for the one who loves you more than me

is sending blessings fast.

because you're not alone. 

say it one more time, "i'm not alone."

even when its hard - 

and sometimes its hard to find the words - 

your prayers are always heard.

you're not alone.

the message of this moment is so clear,

and is certain as the rising of the sun.

if your world is filled with darkness doubt and fear, 

just hold on, hold on, the light will come.

the light will come. 

the light will come.

michael mclean

"hold on there will be light/you're not alone"

Beautiful

Humility before God is Courage

Happy Tuesday

Warm Fuzzies

What a great Sunday! For the first time since coming here I really enjoyed church with my student ward! Sacrament meeting was on my favorite subject (yay service!) and one of the speakers was a new young man from Ghana who has only been a member for just over a year. He said some of the funniest things. In his talk he referenced President Monson's experience getting the "warm fuzzies" from the primary kids, and admitted that he had to google what they were, and then when he was describing the culture shift from Ghana to the U.S. and the first experiences he had, even on the plane, he couldn't seem to find the word he wanted for what the people were like. He finally settled on weird, but we could all tell the word he wanted was white. So great. 


Sunday school's lesson was short. We had twenty minutes left to fill once he was done, but it was a good time for me to just sit and listen to comments from everyone else and I had so many impressions about how I should do things differently this semester. Small favors, I suppose.


The rest of the day continued in an equally awesome manner. Lots of new friends and spiritual thoughts that needed to be heard. Oh and then there was ward prayer. JC is now in charge and Jon's reaction to the way he conducted was, "I'm kinda worried he is the kind of person that is going to bring a gun and take us all hostage if he gets rejected one too many times." This of course was a reaction to the listing off of the ratio of number of ask outs to dates. Oh boy, oh boy. It might be a long semester in that regard.


Any who! Lots to do before bed. I hope this great day is a sign of a great week.


Happy Sunday!

Something Just for Sunday