- We are met to reaffirm our love for Him and our knowledge of His love for us. No one, regardless of what he or she may say, can diminish that love.
- There are some of other faiths who do not regard us as Christians. That is not important. How we regard ourselves is what is important. We acknowledge without hesitation that there are differences between us. Were this not so there would have been no need for a restoration of the gospel.
- We must not become disagreeable as we talk of doctrinal differences. There is no place for acrimony. But we can never surrender or compromise that knowledge which has come to us through revelation and the direct bestowal of keys and authority under the hands of those who held them anciently.
- We can respect other religions, and must do so. We must recognize the great good they accomplish. We must teach our children to be tolerant and friendly toward those not of our faith.
- There is no doctrinal compromise. There need not be and must not be on our part. But there is a degree of fellowship as we labor together.
- We bear testimony and witness of Him. But we need not do so with arrogance or self-righteousness.
- A holier-than-thou attitude is not becoming to us.
- Who, having read it, can honestly refute its divine origin? Critics may try to explain it away. The harder they try the more plausible becomes the true account of its coming forth as a voice speaking from the dust.
- Life is wonderful if we live the simple principles that we have been taught and if we live the way that we know we should live.
- "From birth, a baby's brain cells proliferate wildly, making connections that may shape a lifetime of experience. The first three years are critical."
- Is it surprising that our Father in Heaven fashioned the minds of very young children to be so capable of learning at a time when they need to be taught who they are and what they must do? The years from birth to age 10 are the peak years for acquiring the language that will become the foundation for understanding future knowledge and truth.
- God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
- It is interesting how the lack of understanding by a few can innocently or purposely misguide many.
- "When you take the time to study the teachings and the doctrines of the Mormon Church, it becomes clear that Mormons are truly Christians. In fact, I have never met more Christlike people than the Mormons I have recently become acquainted with."
- "I am already reading the Book of Mormon, and it is wonderful to read. It has expanded my understanding of Christ and His mission. I feel a wonderful spirit as I read it."
- My friend took the time to learn for himself before forming a judgment. He did not try to influence others based on lack of understanding or misconception.
- We understand that we will live a postmortal life of infinite duration and that we determine the kind of life it will be by our thoughts and actions in mortality. Mortality is very brief but immeasurably important.
- How different this world would be if every person realized that all of his actions have eternal consequences. How much more satisfying our years may be if ... we recognize that we form each day the stuff of which eternity is made.
- This is the day of our mortal probation. We might compare our eternal journey to a race of three laps around the track. We have completed the first lap successfully and have made wonderful progress. We have started on the second lap. Can you imagine a world-class runner stopping along the track at this point to pick flowers or chase a rabbit that crossed his path? Yet this is what we are doing when we occupy our time with worldly pursuits that do not move us closer to the third lap toward eternal life, the greatest of all the gifts of God.
- We cannot work out our salvation alone. We cannot return to the presence of our Father in Heaven without helping our brothers and sisters.
- We are only as strong as each member of the body, or church, of Christ. We should do all we can to help every member realize his or her divine potential as "heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ."
- Each of us needs to be the friend that every new member needs to remain active and faithful in the Church.
- "Very common, ordinary people, who accept the gospel from the lips of some humble Mormon missionary become so changed by those enlightening truths of the gospel that they are not the same people any longer."
- We weave into the fabric of our lives the pattern that we will present as our finished product. Our mortal lives are woven each day as we add our deeds into something intricately beautiful, following the Master Designer's plan. When we make wrong choices, we must live with a blotch in the fabric of our souls or retrace our steps through repentance and remove errant threads we have woven into our character and replace them with the finer threads that our Maker intended for us to use.
- The tapestry of our lives is being patterned now.
- Procrastination, as it may be applied to Gospel principles, is the thief of eternal life.
- 'Each day is not just another day but more like a falling drop of water, a golden moment of life's span adding to an increasingly rich pool of living.'
- We can become like the people of Nineveh whom the Lord described to Jonah as "persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand."
- We must at times search our own souls and discover what we really are. Our real character, much as we would wish, cannot be hidden. It shines from within us transparently. Attempts to deceive others only deceive ourselves. We are often like the emperor in the fairy tale who thought he was arrayed in beautiful garments when he was in fact unclothed.
- In our society many sacred values have been eroded in the name of freedom of expression. The vulgar and the obscene are protected in the name of freedom of speech. The mainstream of society has become more tolerant, even accepting, of conduct that Jesus, Moses, the Prophet Joseph Smith, and other prophets have warned against since the beginning of human history.
- We should not allow our personal values to erode, even if others thing we are peculiar.
- Often those who do not choose to follow the prophets are voices that criticize those who do.
- The true believer, "with the love of God in his soul, pursues his life of service and righteousness without stopping to ask by what rule or law each act is prescribed or forbidden."
I'll be watching the leaves.
Enjoy the day!
-Sarnic Dirchi
The Dream
Started out with a bit of 'Home Alone' crazy of setting traps, defeating the bad guys and then cleaning up the huge mess I'd made in the process before heading to bed. It switched to a guy -kinda like Neville- who started out pretty fat but through exercise and hard work had managed to lower his weight. He and this woman...who seemed to be magical...were in my backyard working on some plan, when this cloud circled us along the grass and made a heart. The woman immediately backed out of it pulling the guy with her. Why? Because it was a spam cloud. Step into it and you get some sort of advertisement. This particular cloud just wanted you to step onto it's scale and it would tell you your weight. The guy decided he wanted to try it and stepped on. The numbers flashed to 113lbs. Which to me was surprising because I don't weigh that much, but for him, was a major accomplishment. Then, out of the scale -through a trap door- came out a different guy, ready to do his 'spam spill' on whatever product he was trying to sell, but the woman cut him off. However, the now skinny guy was willing to talk to trap door guy, and it turned into a little therapy session for trap door guy. It turns out that he doesn't mind sitting in a cloud (it's rather dark and crowded within) waiting for someone to step onto the scale, he liked it a lot better than his 18hour(year?) gig at Walmart where nobody appreciated him. The trap door guy had really low self confidence because nobody liked him and so to be by himself and not judged was not the best in his mind but it was better then it had been for him.
Then the unholy tones of daylight came and pulled me away....
and I became myself again. :)
-S.N.D
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