- Sometimes we forget that our Heavenly Father desires that each of us have this joy. Only by yielding to temptation and sin can we be kept from that joy. And yielding is exactly what Satan wants us to do.
- It is our sins that make the devil laugh, our sorrow that brings him counterfeit joy.
- Although the devil laughs, his power is limited. Some may remember the old adage: "The devil made me do it." Today I want to convey, in absolutely certain terms, that the adversary cannot make us do anything. He does lie at our door, as the scriptures say, and he follows us every day. Every time we go out, every decision we make, we are either choosing to move in his direction or in the direction of our Savior. But the adversary must depart if we tell him to depart. He cannot influence u sunless we allow him to do so, and he knows that! The only time he can affect our minds and bodies--our very spirits--is when we allow him to do so. In other words, we do not have to succumb to his enticements!
- The promptings that come to us to flee evil reflect our Heavenly Father's understanding of our particular strengths and weaknesses and His awareness of the unforeseen circumstances of our lives. When these promptings come, they will not generally stop us in our tracks, for the Spirit of God does not speak with a voice of thunder. The voice will be as soft as a whisper, coming as a thought to our minds or a feeling in our hearts. By heeding its gentle promptings, we will be protected from the destructive consequences of sin.
- Be happy and confident about your life and about the opportunities and blessings that await you here and throughout eternity.
- Remember our agency is not only for us. We have the responsibility to use it in behalf of others, to lift and strengthen others in their trials and tribulations.
H. David Burton -Tender Hearts and Helping Hands
- "The work of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is all the more impressive because it is not limited to just the members of the Church, but it spreads to all human beings of different cultures and different religions because [they] see in every person the image of Jesus Christ."
Julie B. Beck -An Outpouring of Blessings
- Spiritual gifts are numerous and varied and come to us as we seek them and use them appropriately. We enjoy them because of the power of the Holy Ghost, which is in and aorund and woven through our lives.
Henry B. Eyring -As a Child
- King Benjamin, who understood as well as any mortal what it meant to be a man of strength and courage, makes it clear that to be like a child is not to be childish. It is to be like the Savior, who prayed to His Father for strength to be able to do His will and then did it. Our natures must be changed to become as a child to gain the strength we must have to be safe in the times of moral peril.
Thomas S. Monson -True to the Faith
- "Wo unto them that call evil good, and good evil, that put darkness for light, and light for darkness."
- "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 year are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it."
- Avoid the philosophy that yesterday's luxuries have become today's necessities. They aren't necessities unless we make them so.
- I urge you to live within your means. One cannot spend more than one earns and remain solvent.
- "Pay the debt thou has contracted. ... Release thyself from bondage."
- "Who honors God, God honors."
Until you next see these words;
I'll be watching the leaves.
Enjoy the day!
-Sarnic Dirchi
The Dream
I dreamt that I was caring for a mother cat and her batch of kittens. They were in a medium sized carrier with a blue blanket/towel inside. The cage was in the backyard kinda on our porch, and I was worried that the kittens were ill, and didn't want them to get lost. I left for a little bit to talk with my family, but quickly returned to the kittens feeling discontent with what had happened with the family. It began to rain and so I took shelter inside with the mother, and her little ones. Finding comfort there....
Then the unholy tones of daylight pulled me away....
and I became myself again. :)
-S.N.D
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