Sand or Stone

Tomorrow we will have our Missionary Training Meeting.  These are some of the thoughts that I plan to share with those who come.

  Every day we have the power to lift and strengthen someone who may be struggling in silence with a burden they feel they cannot share.  May we always be mindful of our brothers and sisters who remain silent, but pray that someone will hear their unspoken words.

Quotes from “Stand A Little Taller”  by President Gordon B Hinckley

Age is Relative

“They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing.”  Psalm 92:14

                Age is a matter of how you feel, how you think, and what’s going on in your head than what’s going on in your feet.”    Pg. 267

Believe in Yourself

“Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward.” Hebrews 10:35

Believe in yourself.  Believe in yourself as a child of God.  Believe in your capacity to do good in the world, to spread light and truth and understanding; to reach out to those in distress and need to help and bless them.   Page 327

Do Not Despair

“All these things shall five thee experience, and shall be for thy good.”  D & C 122:7

We are in a period of stress across the world.  There are occasionally hard days for each of us.  Do not despair.  Do not give up.  Look for the sunlight through the clouds.  Opportunities will eventually open to you.  Do not let the prophets of gloom endanger your possibilities.  Pg. 359

A friend of mine sent an email recently about two friends while traveling in the desert  had an argument which escalated and ended up when one slapped the other.

Without returning the slap the one stooped down and wrote in the sand that his friend had slapped him.

They continued the journey and found an oasis.  Because the journey had been long and they were dying of thirst they first drank and then decided to bathe.  The one who had been slapped  became mired and was on the verge of drowning, when his friend rescued him.

Again the friend stooped, but this time he wrote “Today my friend saved me”  upon a stone.  Somewhat bewildered  by his friends actions he asked :

,    'AFTER   I  HURT    YOU,
YOU    WROTE    IN    THE    SAND    AND    NOW,
YOU    WRITE    ON    A     STONE,    WHY?'

THE   FRIEND    REPLIED
'WHEN    SOMEONE    HURTS    US
WE    SHOULD     WRITE    IT    DOWN
IN    SAND,   WHERE    WINDS    OF
FORGIVENESS    CAN     ERASE    IT AWAY.
BUT,    WHEN  SOMEONE    DOES
SOMETHING    GOOD    FOR    US,
WE    MUST    ENGRAVE    IT   IN   STONE
WHERE    NO    WIND
CAN    EVER;  ERASE    IT.'

LEARN    TO     WRITE
YOUR    HURTS    IN
THE    SAND    AND    TO
CARVE    YOUR
BENEFITS    IN    STONE.

  Unkown Author

Remember you are given the power to choose where you will write your story.