"The marvelous truths of the Restoration respond to these questions and are highly global, highly personal, and even galactic in their dimensions. Identity exists amid immensity. We are enclosed in divine purposes! There is no need for despair! No wonder the restored gospel is such 'good news.'"
-Neal A. Maxwell

"Every man and every person who lives in this world wields an influence, whether for good or for evil. It is not what he says alone, it is not alone what he does. It is what he is. Every man, every person radiates what he or she really is....It is what we are and what we radiate that affects the people around us.

"As individuals, we must think nobler thoughts. We must not encourage vile thoughts or low aspirations. We shall radiate them if we do. If we think noble aspirations, there will be that radiation when we meet people, especially when we associate with them."
- President David O. McKay

"Clouds, like children, open. They do not doubt, they open and pour, open and give." 
-Terresa Wellborn

A Study of Shoulders

You underestimate your shoulders. 
They are not a series of 
muscles, ligaments, tendons, 
where the humerus and scapula meet. 
They are emptying fields, 
living sunlight, blazing 
altars for hands, lips, 
a curving distance of sighs and weights, 
a thousand brush strokes 
of velvet and weather, 
a world where you 
carry your heart. 

--Terresa Wellborn 

"Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. Leave the rest to God."

-Karen Freeman

It lights the whole sky.

Image found here.

Peace

"Peace is when you can turn a corner without apprehension and look in the eye those you meet;it is the supremacy over fear, not fearlessness, but the courage to go forward in spite of fear; it is the hearing of the telephone bell without a start; the opening of your door to the police without a quiver; the receiving of a telegram without a tremble."

-President Spencer W. Kimball

"Rarely is anyone criticized into changing, but they just might be loved and appreciated into changing." 

-John Bytheway

"Fall in love with your life."

-Terresa Wellborn

Those Winter Sundays

Those Winter Sundays
by Robert Hayden

Sundays too my father got up early And put his clothes on in the blueback cold, then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him. I'd wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking. When the rooms were warm, he'd call, and slowly I would rise and dress, fearing the chronic angers of that house, Speaking indifferently to him, who had driven out the cold and polished my good shoes as well. What did I know, what did I know of love's austere and lonely offices?  Thanks for all those winter Sundays, Mom and Dad. I love you.

A long pull

"But you see, Jo wasn't a heroine, she was only a struggling human girl like hundreds of others...It's highly virtuous to say we'll be good, but we can't do it all at once, and it takes a long pull, a strong pull." 

- Louisa May Alcott

“We want to be ladies in very deed, not according to the term of the word as the world judges, but fit companions of the Gods and Holy Ones. In an organized capacity we can assist each other in not only doing good but in refining ourselves, and whether few or many come forward and help to prosecute this great work, they will be those that will fill honorable positions in the Kingdom of God. . . . Women should be women and not babies that need petting and correction all the time. I know we like to be appreciated but if we do not get all the appreciation which we think is our due, what matters? We know the Lord has laid high responsibility upon us, and there is not a wish or desire that the Lord has implanted in our hearts in righteousness but will be realized, and the greatest good we can do to ourselves and each other is to refine and cultivate ourselves in everything that is good and ennobling to qualify us for those responsibilities.”

-Eliza R. Snow

A lesson on forgiveness

 Warning: This will make you cry. But in a good way.

Thank goodness for the Gospel of Jesus Christ which helps us to change!