G.C. Droplets October 2010 -Priesthood Session

Patrick Kearon -"Come unto Me with Full Purpose of Heart, and I Shall Heal You"

• Brethren, we find healing and relief only when we bring ourselves to the feet of the Great Physician, our Savior, Jesus Christ. We must lay down our weapons of rebellion (and we each know what they are.) We must lay down our sin, vanity, and pride. We must give up our desires to follow the world and to be respected and lauded by the world. We must cease fighting against God and instead give our whole hearts to Him, holding nothing back. Then He can heal us. Then He can cleanse us from the venomous sting of sin.
• "For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved."
• "When obedience becomes our goal, it is no longer an irritation; instead of a stumbling block, it becomes a building block."
• "Obedience leads to true freedom. The more we obey revealed truth, the more we become liberated."
• No one can find peace in a minefield.
• Not one of you has thrown away your last chance. You can change, you can come back, you can claim mercy.

Juan A. Uceda -He Teaches Us to Put Off the Natural Man

• Contention departs our homes and our lives as we strive to live these Christlike attributes. "And ye shall also forgive one another your trespasses; for verily I say unto you, he that forgiveth not his neighbor's trespasses when he says that he repents, the same hath brought himself under condemnation."

Dieter F. Uchtdorf -Pride and the Priesthood

• Every mortal has at least a casual if not intimate relationship with the sin of pride. No one has avoided it; few overcome it.
• ride is sinful, because it breeds hatred or hostility and places us in opposition to God and our fellowmen.
• Pride is the great sin of self-elevation.
• Pride is a deadly cancer. It is a gateway sin that leads to a host of other human weaknesses. In fact, it could be said that every other sin is, in essence, a manifestation of pride.
• Pride is a switch that turns of priesthood power. Humility is a switch that turns it on.
• We don't discover humility by thinking less of  ourselves; we discover humility by thinking less about ourselves.
• The moment we stop obsessing with ourselves and lose ourselves in service, our pride diminishes and begins to die.
• "Pride is the great stumbling block to Zion.

Henry B. Eyring -Serve with the Spirit

• As you pray for help, the Spirit will calm your fears.

Thomas S. Monson -The Three Rs of Choice

• Scarcely an hour of the day goes by but what we are called upon to make choices of one sort or another. Some are trivial, some more far-reaching. Some will make no difference in the eternal scheme of things, and others will make all the difference.
• "Next to the bestowal of life itself, the right to direct that life is God's greatest gift to man."
• We know that we had our agency before this world was and that Lucifer attempted to take it from us. He had no confidence in the principle of agency or in us and argued for imposed salvation. He insisted that with his plan none would be lost, but he seemed not to recognize--or perhaps not to care--that in addition, none would be any wiser, any stronger, any more compassionate, or any ore grateful if his plan were followed.
• Within the confines of whatever circumstances we find ourselves, we will always have the right to choose.
• We cannot be neutral; there is no middle ground.
• Each of us has come to this earth with all the tools necessary to make correct choices.
• Although in our journey we will encounter forks and turnings in the road, we simply cannot afford the luxury of a detour from which we may never return. Lucifer, that clever pied piper, plays his lilting melody and attracts the unsuspecting away from the safety of their chosen pathway.
• If you do not know where you want to go, it doesn't matter which path you take.
• Decisions are constantly before us. To make them wisely, courage is needed--the courage to say no, the courage to say yes. Decisions do determine destiny.
• No temptation, no pressure, no enticing can overcome us unless we allow such. If we make the wrong choice, we have no one to blame but ourselves.
• "There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it."
• It is easier to keep the commandments 100 percent of the time than it is 98 percent of the time.

Until you next read these words;

I'll be watching the leaves.

Enjoy the day!

-Sarnic Dirchi