We each have been blessed with different talents and abilities. Success comes as we learn to cultivate and grow our talents. Genius is simply having the discipline to make continual use of those talents.
'Seeing is Believing'. Sound familiar? For many people in the world this is true. But for those with true hope, 'Believing is Seeing'.
Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough. - Og Mandino
Just as the flames from past fires will not warm you today, neither will yesterday's knowledge be sufficient for tomorrow’s challenges. We must continually seek learning by faith and by the power of the Holy Ghost.
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” - John Adams
Our family has had the opportunity to travel abroad on numerous occasions. We each look forward, with great anticipation, to time of our departure. And as exciting and adventure filled as these trips can be, before embarking on the journey, we like to have some assurance of . . . .
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.
In this wonderful age of digital technology and rapid transportation the church is no longer being carried westward by covered wagons and handcarts. Instead it is more like a bullet train speeding, on an undeviating course, toward its final destination, to greet the Savior at the time of His second coming.
“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.”