“Whether it is for nine months, nine years or ninety-nine years, life, every life, every heartbeat began with a mom.”
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.
The thirteenth Article of Faith states the following, “We believe in being honest, true, chaste, benevolent, virtuous, and in doing good to all men; indeed, we may say that we follow the admonition of Paul—We believe all things, we hope all things, we have endured many things, and hope to be able to endure all things. If there is anything virtuous, lovely, or of good report or praiseworthy, we seek after these things.”