Like the dew from heaven, peaceful solutions and understanding are clearest when I arise, while it is still dark outside and write them down, before they have evaporated from my mind with the commotion of the new day.
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“With all that is going on in the world, with the lowering of moral standards, you young people are being raised in enemy territory.” —Elder Boyd K. Packer
“You only make once in a lifetime friends, once in a lifetime.”
You are a child of God. He is the father of your spirit. . . . However many generations in your mortal ancestry, no matter what race or people you represent, the pedigree of your spirit can be written on a single line. You are a child of God! –Boyd K. Packer
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” - John Adams
There is a real super hero, even a Superman, inside of every dad that can only be seen through the eyes of his children when he is being a true father.
Being truthful about both the natural and manmade consequences of choices and allowing our children to experience the pain and disappointment resulting from bad choices will not always deter them from making wrong decisions, but it will enable them to learn from their choices so they can make better ones in the future.
“All that we can know about those we have loved and lost,” wrote Thornton Wilder, “is that they would wish us to remember them with a more intensified realization of their reality. … The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.”
There are many lessons to be learned in life. Indeed mortality, with all of its ups and downs, good experiences and bad experiences alike, is the teacher of us all. But learning lessons alone is not what truly determines how we will be graded as we stand before the judgement bar of God. What will matter most is how we applied the knowledge.
This past year a good friend in his 50’s suffered a stroke. It was unexpected, unwanted and changed his life. From time to time I’m reminded how often life throws us or a loved one a curve ball, a change up or a blistering fastball in on the hands. When this happens it can be hard to stay in the game, let alone step up to the plate, tap the clay from your cleats and take a swing.