Spiritual Preparation for the Day!!!!!

"There may be things in our character, in our behavior, or concerning our spiritual growth about which we need to counsel with Heavenly Father in morning prayer. After expressing appropriate thanks for blessings received, we plead for understanding, direction, and help to do the things we cannot do in our own strength alone." --David A. Bednar

"Pray Always, Ensign," Nov. 2008, 41

Topics: Prayer


Heartfelt Invitation !!!!

"To those who are wounded in spirit or who are struggling and fearful, we say, Let us lift you and cheer you and calm your fears." --Thomas S. Monson,

"Looking Back and Moving Forward, Liahona and Ensign," May 2008, 90
Topics: Unity

Laughter & Smile

You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.

--(Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894), Scottish novelist, essayist, poet. Virginibus Puerisque, title essay, pt. 1 (1881).)


If thou must love me, let it be for nought Except for love's sake only. Do not say "I love her for her smile—her look—her way Of speaking gently,—for a trick of thought That falls in well with mine, and certes brought A sense of pleasant ease on such a day"— (Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861), British poet. Sonnets from the Portuguese, sonnet 14.)