- "No unhallowed hand can stop the work from progressing; persecutions may rage, mobs may combine, armies may assemble, calumny may defame, but the truth of God will go forth boldly, nobly, and independent, till it has penetrated every continent, visited every clime, swept every country, and sounded in every ear, till the purposes of God shall be accomplished, and the Great Jehovah shall say the work is done."
- Just as our desires must be pure and rooted in testimony and love, our actions must be directed by the Lord. It is His work, not ours, and it must be done in His way and on His timing, not ours. Otherwise, our efforts may be fated to frustration and failure.
- We begin by beginning. We should not wait for a further invitation from heaven. Revelation comes most often when we are on the move.
- "Men are building too many walls and not enough bridges."
- Indeed, walls are usually built to separate two or more entities physically, mentally, or even spiritually and to create obstacles. They are built because they represent the idea of defense, protection, or separation.
- Bridges are the opposite of walls. Bridges are built to bring together, to join two or more entities, and to create unity. They are built to overcome obstacles.
- And so, as we attempt to build a bridge of faith, we need to build in our lives a firm testimony of the Father and the Son and His Atonement. This bridge of faith will make a difference between the reality of eternal reunion with our Heavenly Father or eternal separation from Him if we erect walls of sin that turn us away from His love and mercy.
- The gift of the Holy Ghost is the foundation of the bridge of faith.
- Crossing the bridge of faith may not be as easy as we may think. A bridge will only resist the storms because of the strength of the pillars of its foundation.
- Yes, the solutions to our daily problems can always be found by daily seeking.
- The mists of doubt and apathy arise and corrode one's heart and mind, impeding one's progress and restricting one's response to the magnetic force of love which streams across the bridge. It is then one breaks step and falls to his knees and hangs on until the force of love restores faith and direction to the crossing.
- "Trust my word and follow me; listen to my voice. If you do so, I will protect you the best I know how."
- In our day, it is so easy to isolate ourselves by erecting temporal, spiritual, and even family or religious walls. Let us instead build more bridges of faith, of reconciliation, and live by the peace that is given "not as the world giveth," but by Jesus Christ, the Son of God. He is the bridge of faith unto eternity.
- Lucifer is determined to devour marriages and families, because their demise threatens the salvation of all involved and the vitality of the Lord's kingdom itself. Thus, Satan seeks to confuse us about our stewardships and distinctive natures as men and women.
- He would have us believe men and women are so alike that our unique gifts are not necessary, or so different we can never hope to understand each other. Neither is true.
- Our Father knew exactly what He was doing when He created us. He made us enough alike to love each other, but enough different that we would need to unite our strengths and stewardships to create a whole. Neither man nor woman is perfect or complete without the other. Thus, no marriage or family, no ward or stake is likely to reach its full potential until husbands and wives, mothers and fathers, men and women work together in unity of purpose, respecting and relying upon each other's strengths.
- Sisters, we as women are not diminished by priesthood power, we are magnified by it.
- If you will marry a virtuous woman who can hear the voice of the Lord, she will bless your life every day of your life.
- "The Lord also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble.
- "And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee: for thou, Lord, hast not forsaken them that seek thee."
- Dependence on God can fade quickly when prayers are answered. And when the trouble lessens, so do the prayers. The Book of Mormon repeats that sad story over and over again.
- "And thus we can behold how false, and also the unsteadiness of the hearts of the children of men; yea, we can see that the Lord in his great infinite goodness doth bless and prosper those who put their trust in him.
- Except the Lord doth chasten his people with many afflictions, yea, except he doth visit them with death and with terror, and with famine and with all manner of pestilence, they will not remember him.
- Pride creates a noise within us which makes the quiet voice of the Spirit hard to hear.
- When God has commanded us to pray, He has used words like "pray unceasingly" and "pray always" and "mighty prayer."
- Those commands do not require using many words. In fact, the Savior has told us that we need not multiply words when we pray. The diligence in prayer which God requires does not take flowery speech nor long hours of solitude.
- "Yea, and when you do not cry unto the Lord, let your hearts be full, drawn out in prayer unto him continually for your welfare, and also for the welfare of those who are around you."
- Our hearts can only be drawn out to God when they are filled with love for Him and trust in His goodness.
- We may not cease to pray, but our prayers will become more repetitive, more mechanical, lacking real intent. Our hearts cannot be drawn out to a God we do not know, and the scriptures and the words of living prophets help us know Him. As we know Him better, we love Him more.
- We must always serve Him to love Him.
- "For how knoweth a man the master whom he has not served, and who is a stranger unto him, and is far from the thoughts and intents of his heart?" As our love for Him increases, so will our desire to approach the Father in prayer.
- After all we can do to pay to the uttermost farthing and make right our wrongs, the Savior's grace is activated in our lives through the Atonement, which purifies us and can perfect us.
- If we will return unto the Lord, "he will abundantly pardon."
- I had always viewed the Atonement as a means of making repentance work for the sinner. I had not realized that it also make sit possible for the one sinned against to receive into his or her heart the sweet peace of forgiving.
- The injured should do what they can to work through their trials, and the Savior will "succor his people according to their infirmities." He will help us carry our burdens. Some injuries are so hurtful and deep that they cannot be healed without help from a higher power and hope for perfect justice and restitution in the next life. Since the Savior has suffered anything and everything that we would ever feel or experience, He can help the weak to become stronger. He has personally experienced all of it. He understands our pain and will walk with us even in our darkest hours.
I'll be watching the leaves.
Enjoy the day!
-Sarnic Dirchi
The Dream
Involved me walking out onto the field of my elementary/jrhigh and running into a cute guy named Nate. He took me over behind the baseball diamond high fence and there was Matt Perry there, trying to convince me that Nate was a guy that I should really go on a date with. He had a song for it and everything. I wasn't too opposed to the idea, though Nate was younger than me, he hadn't gone on a mission yet, but I liked the idea of dating him any way.....
Then the unholy tones of daylight pulled me away....
and I became myself again. :)
-S.N.D
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