WEEKEND WARRIOR

"True Christian soldiers are more

than weekend warriors."

- Neal A. Maxwell

WHO YOU ARE MEANT TO BE

"Let go of the person you think you are,

so  you can become who 

you are meant to be."

- Author unknown

CHARITIES ON ALL

Have love: not love alone for one,

But man as man thy brother call,

And scatter like the circling sun

Thy charities on all.

- Schiller

THE ANSWER

"I testify that in this, the twilight of the dispensation of the fullness of times, when Lucifer is working overtime to jeopardize our journey home and to separate us from the Savior's atoning power, the only answer for any of us is Jesus Christ."

-  Sheri L. Dew, (in CR Apr 1999, Ensign May 1999, p 67)

THE ONE

"You may be only one person

to the world,

but you may be the world

to one person."

- Bill Wilson

SAFETY IN HARBOUR

"Ships are safest in the harbour,

but that's not what ships are made for."

- William G.T. Shedd

SACRED LIFE

 

"I wish that life should not be cheap, 

but sacred.....

The days to be as centuries,

loaded, fragrant...."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

HOPE

"With hope, a mind is always free."

- Amy Tan

ANGELS, OUR ASSOCIATES

"If you live up to your privileges,

the angels cannot be restrained 

from being your associates."

- Joseph Smith

ON CHILDREN

 "Your children are not your children.

They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.

They come through you but not from you,

And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts,

For they have their own thoughts.

You may house their bodies but not their souls,

For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,

which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

You may strive to be like them, 

but seek not to make them like you.

For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.

You are the bows from which your children

 as living arrows are sent forth.

The Archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite,

and He bends you with His might 

that His arrows may go swift and far.

Let your bending in the Archer's hand be for gladness,

For even as He loves the arrow that flies,

so He loves also the bow that is stable.

- Kehlil Gibran, The Prophet

COME TO ME O YE CHILDREN

Come to me, O ye children!

For I hear you at your play,

And the questions that perplexed me

Have vanished quite away.

Ye open the eastern windows,

That look towards the sun,

Where thoughts are singing swallows,

And the brooks of morning run.

In your hearts are the birds and the sunshine,

In your thoughts the brooklet's flow,

But in mine is the wind of Autumn

And the first fall of the snow.

Ah! What would the world be to us

If the children were no more?

We should dread the desert behind us

Worse than the dark before.

What the leaves are to the forest,

With light and air for food,

Ere their sweet and tender juices

Have been hardened into wood,--

That to the world are children;

Through them it feels the glow

Of a brighter and sunnier climate

That reaches the trunks below.

Come to me, O ye children!

And whisper in my ear

What the birds and the winds are singing

In your sunny atmosphere.

For what are all our contrivings,

And the wisdom of our books,

When compared with your caresses,

And the gladness of your looks.

Ye are better than all the ballads,

That ever were sung or said;

For ye are living poems,

And all the rest are dead.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow