SIN

"Whoever said that sin was not fun? Whoever claimed that Lucifer was not handsome? Persuasive, easy, friendly? Sin is attractive and desirable. Transgression wears elegant gowns and sparkling apparel. It is highly perfumed; it has attractive features, a soft voice. It is found in educated circles and sophisticated groups. It provides sweet and comfortable luxuries. Sin is easy and has a big company of pleasant companions. It promises immunity from restrictions, and temporary freedoms. It can momentarily satisfy hunger, thirst, desire, urges, passions, wants, without immediately paying the price. But, it begins tiny and grows to monumental proportions - drop by drop, inch by inch."

- Spencer W. Kimball, Faith Precedes The Miracle, p. 229

HE THOUGHT OF ME

I am worth the coming down,
the silence
in return for mockery.
I am worth the thorns,
the bleeding back,
the wincing, weakening steps to Calvary.
He suffered these and thought of me.
He could have halted soldiers
with a fiery eye,
And pronounced death
in words that rang
from marble palace walls,
And in the garden dreamed instead of prayed.
But as the glistening crimson beads
slipped from his face,
He thought that I was worth the price he paid.
I'm blind to what
he sees in me,
Yet I know thorns
and what it is
to wince and weaken.
Gethsemane and Calvary-
He suffered so
and thought of me.

- Margery Stockseth