CONTRITION

 

I offered You my soul today

And laid it at Your holy feet;

I promised I would do much better

Until at last in joy we meet.

I sought forgiveness with contrition

And saw the tender heart in Thee;

How graciously You accepted

All that You found in me! 

- CATHRYNE ALLEN 

(Art by Ivan Guaderrama)

RETURN UNTO ME

 

Return unto me you heavy laden

And I will give you rest.

Return unto me you who are oppressed

And I will give you peace.

Return unto me if scarred by sin

And I will make you free.

Return unto me you who are dejected

And I will gather you

Under the shadow of my wings.

Return unto me you who sorrow

And I will give you a brighter tomorrow.

Return unto me you who have forsaken me.....

- CATHRYNE ALLEN 

(Art: Return Unto Me by Annie Henrie Nader)

A NEW NORMAL

 

"Today we often hear about 'a new normal'. If you really want to embrace a new normal, I invite you to turn your heart, mind, and soul increasingly to our Heavenly Father and His Son, Jesus Christ. Let that be your new normal. Embrace your new normal by repenting daily. Seek to be increasingly pure in thought, word, and deed. Minister to others. Keep an eternal perspective. Magnify your callings. And whatever your challenges, my dear brothers and sisters, live each day so that you are more prepared to meet your maker."

- President Russell M. Nelson, "A New Normal", October 2020

AS ONLY A GOD COULD

"At the appointed time Jesus came, born of Mary, in Bethlehem of Judea. He worked out His own salvation, revealed His Father, preached the gospel, wrought miracles, organized anew the earthly kingdom, was rejected by his own, and died a voluntary death on a cross at Calvary. In a garden called Gethsemane, outside Jerusalem's walls, in agony beyond compare, he took upon himself the sins of all men on conditions of repentance. Then he yielded himself into the hands of traitors and wicked men to have his flesh gashed and pierced and his body hung on a tree. He came into the world to die, and die he did, die as only a God could."

- Bruce R. McConkie, 'The Promised Messiah', p 552