Faith is always pointed toward the future

Look ahead and remember that faith is always pointed toward the future.

The start of a new year is the traditional time to take stock of our lives and see where we are going, measured against the backdrop of where we have been. I don't want to talk about New Year's resolutions, but I do want to talk about the past and the future, with an eye toward any time of transition and change in our lives—and those moments come virtually every day. Faith builds on the past but never longs to stay there. Faith trusts that God has great things in store for each of us and that Christ truly is the "high priest of good things to come" Hebrews 9:11

Keep your eyes on your dreams, however distant and far away. Live to see the miracles of repentance and forgiveness, of trust and divine love that will transform your life today, tomorrow, and forever.

Forgive and do that which is sometimes harder than to forgive: forget. 

And when it comes to mind again, forget it again.

I know that even though it may take time, with Heavenly Father's help, 

we can let the past remain in the past.

Jeffrey R. Holland

"…To be happy and to avoid misery, 

we must have a grateful heart."  

 Henry B. Eyring

This is the beginning of a new year, and each of us might well say to himself, 

'Today is the first day of the rest of my life. Let me begin now to prepare for eternal life, 

that I may know a fullness of joy and happiness now and forever.' After all, 

this is really what each of us wants, and it is most important that we take time to find out 

how to get it and begin now to work at it day by day." 

N. Eldon Tanner