COME UNTO ME

 

".....the Savior's Atonement lifts from us not only the burden of sin but also the burden of our disappointments and sorrows, our heartaches and our despair.......the soul that comes unto Christ, who knows His voice and strives to do as He did, finds a strength.....'beyond [his] own'. The Savior reminds us that He has 'graven [us] upon the palms of [His] hands' ( 1 Nephi 21:16). Considering the incomprehensible cost of the Crucifixion and Atonement, I promise you He is not going to turn His back on us now. When He says to the poor in spirit, 'Come unto me', He means He knows the way out and He knows the way up. He knows it because He has walked it. He knows the way because He IS the way."

- Elder Jeffrey R. Holland
"Broken Things to Mend", Ensign May 2006

DON'T WALK IN FRONT OF ME

Don't walk in front of me,

I may not follow.

Don't walk behind me,

I may not lead.

Just walk beside me and be my friend.

- Albert Camus (1912-1960)

French-Algerian writer and philosopher

LET THINGS GO

You will find that it is necessary

to let things go;

Simply for the reason that they

are heavy.

- Anonymous

THE EDGE OF ALL THE LIGHT

"When you come to the edge

of all the light you know
and are about to step off into the
darkness of the unknown

one of two things will happen...

either you will step onto solid ground 

or you will be taught to fly."

- Anonymous

SOMEBODY IN NEED

"Somebody in need is waiting

on the other side of 

your obedience."

- Terri Savelle Foy

LITTLE ACTS OF KINDNESS

I took a drop of kindness

And spread it all around,

It changed the earth beneath me

To sacred, holy ground.

Transformed a voice of anger

To whispers soft and dear,

And stony eyes, hard and cold

To ones which shone with tears.

It filled a heart with softness

Where harshness had abound,

And placed a smile on a face

On which there'd been a frown.

It helped to ease the sorrow

Of one weighed down in grief,

A widow faced the morrow

With hope borne out of peace.

The little act of kindness?

There's really no such thing.

The little act of kindness

Hides multitudes of sin!

Effects are quite astounding

They'd change the world for sure

If others shared the burden

Which those around them bore.

So take a drop of kindness

And spread it all around,

Change the earth beneath you

To sacred, holy ground.

And soon you will discover

Your open heart will sing!

For little acts of kindness

Are monumental things!

- Desley Innis

THE ONLY TRUE GIFT

"The only true gift is a portion of yourself."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
American essayist and poet