To everything there is a season

 

 

I am grateful to know with an absolute certainty that there is One who, when I trip or

stumble or fall, will be there to pick me up, dust me off, encircle me in the arms of His

love, and walk with me to the finish line. I testify that He lives and that the more we

become like Him in understanding our identity, being pure and virtuous in every aspect

of our lives, and following the voice of the Spirit, and keeping our covenants, the more

our personal charity our pure love will never fail. “Wherefore … let us lay aside

every weight,” everything that might hold us back, “and let us run with patience the race

that is set before us, looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith”

Life teaches us that “charity never faileth”. In fact, we can be assured “it

endureth forever; and whoso is found possessed of it at the last day, it shall be well with

them. In the name of Jesus Christ, amen.

 

Elaine S. Dalton

 

 

The Lord knows us. He loves us. He believes in us. And He is counting on us to do exactly what we

said we would do. Happily, we don’t have to do it alone. He stands waiting for us to seek His help.

He is eager to endow those who qualify with His power. He will gift us with skill and

understanding commensurate with our seeking, our purity, and our need.

…we are part of a royal army…Indeed, “we have a labor to perform now whilst in this

tabernacle of clay, that we may conquer the enemy of all righteousness”

 

Wendy Watson Nelson

 

  

 

we can love as God loves. Not because we are so great or because we are so loving,

but because God is. His love for us is perfect. It “suffereth long,” it “endureth all things,” and it

“never faileth.” It can transform us and enhance our love for others. May we “be filled with this

love, which he hath bestowed upon all who are true followers of his Son, Jesus Christ; that …

when he shall appear we shall be like him,” is my prayer in the name of Jesus Christ, amen.

 

Kevin J. Worthen

 

 

“To everything there is a season, and a time to every

purpose under the heaven”

Ecclesiastes 3:1

 

 

The Lord knows and understands our limitations and our abilities, and He still offers us the

riches of eternity. He calls on us to be patient while He leads us, saying, “And ye cannot bear all

things now; nevertheless, be of good cheer, for I will lead you along. The kingdom is yours and

the blessings thereof are yours, and the riches of eternity are yours” We must

choose to develop patience “a willingness … to watch the

unfolding purposes of God with a sense of wonder and awe, rather than pacing up and down

within the cell of our circumstance” We have to be faithful, active participants in fulfilling the Lord’s plans and timetable, while at the same time working hard to leave behind the frustration, pacing and disappointment that come with Heavenly Father’s plans that are different than our own. We must choose to be patient.

To recognize the Lord’s plan for each of us and slow down and patiently wait for His direction,

we must use our agency wisely. The blessing of maintaining an eternal perspective will be ours if

we choose to put the Lord first, be a disciple of Christ, build our faith, be comforted, and be

patient. I testify that the Lord is mindful of each of us. He loves us. He has a plan for each of us

that is far better than we can imagine. As we choose to align ourselves with our Heavenly Father,

we will be blessed with increased faith in His timing, and we will find the peace that comes with

having an eternal perspective.

 

Janie Penfield

 

 

“Therefore, ask, and ye shall receive; knock, and it shall be opened unto you; for he [or she] that

asketh, receiveth; and unto him [or her] that knocketh, it shall be opened” (3 Ne. 27:28–29).

It is in following Jesus and the pattern He has given for proper and faithful living that we find the

secrets of increasing the faith that we so vitally need. It is in serving others and following the

Savior’s prescriptions that we increase both the faith of others and our own as well. It is in so

doing we realize that the Lord knows best what we really need and that our lives, including the

unexpected twists and turns, are in His loving hands.

It is my witness that He lives and that our Father in Heaven knows us better than we know

ourselves. He hears our prayers and answers them, not necessarily to our immediate preferences

but to our ultimate benefit because of the Atonement and intercession of His Beloved Son, Jesus

Christ, in whose name we pray and whose example we seek to emulate.

 

Cecil O. Samuelson

 

 

 

May “the Lord bless you and keep you: The Lord make his face shine upon you, and be

gracious unto you: The Lord lift up his countenance upon you, and give you peace.”