A Life to Give

It is instructive that the second Latter-day Saint connection with the Titanic did not have a happy mortal ending.
Irene Corbett was 30 years old.
She was a young wife and mother from Provo, Utah.
She had significant talents as an artist and musician; she was also a teacher and a nurse.
At the urging of medical professionals in Provo, she attended a six-month course of study on midwife skills in London.
It was her great desire to make a difference in the world.
She was careful, thoughtful, prayerful, and valiant.
One of the reasons she chose the Titanic to return to the United States was because she thought the missionaries would be traveling with her and that this would provide additional safety.
Irene was one of the few women who did not survive this terrible tragedy.
Most of the women and children were placed in lifeboats and were ultimately rescued.
There were not enough lifeboats for everyone.
But it is believed that she did not get in the lifeboats because, with her special training, she was attending to the needs of the numerous passengers who were injured from the iceberg collision.

-Quentin L. Cook -The Songs They Could Not Sing -October 2011 General Conference

Until you next read these words;
I'll be watching the leaves.
Enjoy the day!

-Sarnic Dirchi