The World Can Break Your Heart…Yet Fill It To OverFlowing!

February 16th, 2024

Scott

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Who hasn’t felt joy in this life that filled our soul to overflowing at one time or the other? The immensity and grandeur of it all! Who knows from whence it came or why it left, but for a moment in time, it was ours! Perhaps it was on a bliss wedding day or the moment when we first held a child, our child, in our arms. Or perhaps it was a moment when we exchanged a glance with our spouse or a word of love with a parent. Moments of joy are plentiful in this life, if we open our hearts and let it in. Yet…

Who hasn’t, at one time or the other, felt pain in this life that left our hearts broken? The immensity and grandeur of it all! Who knows from whence it came or why it left if it ever did? But for a moment in time, it was ours! Perhaps our hearts broke on the break up of our marriage or the moment when we first received news of the death of a child. Or perhaps it was a moment when we had an ugly exchange with a spouse or words of hate with our parents. Moments of pain are plentiful in this life, even if we don’t open our hearts to it. Yet…

“…it must needs be, that there is an opposition in all things. If not so…righteousness could not be brought to pass, neither wickedness, neither holiness nor misery, neither good nor bad. Wherefore, all things must needs be a compound in one; wherefore, if it should be one body it must needs remain as dead, having no life neither death, nor corruption nor incorruption, happiness nor misery, neither sense nor insensibility. Wherefore, it must needs have been created for a thing of naught; wherefore there would have been no purpose in the end of its creation. Wherefore, this thing must needs destroy the wisdom of God and his eternal purposes, and also the power, and the mercy, and the justice of God.” (2 Nephi 2:11-12)

I don’t like opposition in my life, but when I stand back and analyze it, would life without it teach me anything or develop in me any attributes or characteristics of a Godly nature?

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ROOTS OF INSPIRATION

In 2007 I began writing a daily inspirational thought to my children, now grown, with the intent to draw them closer to Jesus Christ, the Savior of the world. The influence of the gospel of Jesus Christ is found in all aspects of our lives. The Savior was a great teacher because he taught parables that resonated with the common man. He could relate simple stories that could be understood by all. I have found the more simple the story, the more profound the message.All of our testimonies can have a powerful impact for good for centuries if we take the time to write them down. After all, the scriptures are simply the inspired thoughts and interaction of men with deity that have been written down for all to read. There is no reason that our influence for good has to go with us to the grave. I have hopes, as did Jacob whose final words were, “…to the reader I bid farewell, hoping that many of my brethren may read my words. Brethren, adieu”