Grateful for a Mind, Heart, and Life

     I am grateful for a mind to focus on truth, a heart to focus on love, and a life to give in service.

The Joy of Service

Stuck In The Middle With You - And Thankful For It

     I have so much to be thankful for.  I am thankful for my work, for my afflictions, for those I am able to serve, and especially for my family.  Here is a great link about being in the middle:

Always in the Middle

Be Your Best

A Prophet’s Counsel

I Know That My Redeemer Lives

Pure and Simple Faith

The testimony of a young woman is strengthened as she recognizes the Lord’s hand in providing for her family.

1 John 5:11-12

And this is the record

That God hath given to us eternal life

And this life is in his Son.

He that hath the Son hath life

And he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.

Thankful For A Body of Flesh And Bone

BODY

See also Death, Physical; Mortal, Mortality; Resurrection; Soul.

     The mortal, physical structure of flesh and bones created in God’s image that is combined with a spirit to make up a living person. The physical bodies of all men and women will be reunited eternally with their spirits in the resurrection. The scriptures sometimes refer to a body and spirit joined together as a soul (Gen. 2:7; D&C 88:15;Moses 3:7, 9, 19; Abr. 5:7).

     The Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, Gen. 2:7 (Moses 3:7).

     Handle me and see, for a spirit has not flesh and bones, Luke 24:39

     I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, 1 Cor. 9:27

     There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body, 1 Cor. 15:44

     The body without the spirit is dead, James 2:26

     The mortal body will be raised as an immortal body, Alma 11:43–45

     Every part of the body shall be restored, Alma 41:2

     Jesus showed his resurrected body to the Nephites, 3 Ne. 10:18–19, 3 Ne. 11:13–15

     The Father has a body of flesh and bones as tangible as man’s; the Son also, D&C 130:22

     God created male and female in the image of his own body, Moses 6:9 (Gen. 9:6).

Your body is a temple, a gift from God!

Take Out The Trash

It's So Hard To See When My Eyes Are On Me

Make My Life A Prayer To You

Make my life a prayer to You,

I want to do what you want me to,

No empty words and no white lies,

No token prayers, no compromise,

I want to shine the light you gave,

Through Your Son, you sent to save us,

From ourselves and our despair,

It comforts me to know you're really there.

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Oh, I want to thank you now, for being patient with me,

Oh, it's so hard to see, when my eyes are on me,

I guess I'll have to trust and just believe what you say,

Oh, you're coming again, coming to take me away,

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I want to die, and let you give,

Your life to me, so I might live,

And share the hope you gave to me,

The love that set me free,

I want to tell the world out there,

You're not some fable or fairy tail,

That I made up inside my head,

You're God, The Son, you've risen from the dead.

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Oh, I want to thank you now,

For being patient with me,

Oh, it's so hard to see,

When my eyes are on me,

I guess I'll have to trust,

and just believe what you say,

Oh, you're coming again,

Coming to take me away.

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I want to die, and let you give,

Your life to me, so I might live,

And share the hope you gave to me,

I want to share the love that set me free.

Performed by: Keith Green. Composed by: Melody Green. Copyright 1978

      

     I bear my witness that it truly is hard to see when our eyes are on ourselves. --john

Sermon On The Mount: The Beatitudes

Our Savior's Love

     Edward L. Hart, who wrote the hymn, stated, “Our Savior’s Love” grew out of a figure of speech.  “The simile goes back to seeing people in a fabric or clothing store take material outside and into the sunlight to test its color in the only true or perfect source of light.  In the same way, the only true test of love is the source, our Savior’s love.”

     Crawford Gates, who composed the music, stated, “Though I am aware that all creativity comes from God, perhaps three times in my career I have been very aware of melodic ideas coming as a direct gift from Him.  This was one of those times.”

Our Savior’s love 
Shines like the sun with perfect light, 
As from above 
It breaks thru clouds of strife. 
Lighting our way, 
It leads us back into his sight, 
Where we may stay 
To share eternal life. 

The Spirit, voice 
Of goodness, whispers to our hearts 
A better choice 
Than evil’s anguished cries. 
Loud may the sound 
Of hope ring till all doubt departs, 
And we are bound 
To him by loving ties. 

Our Father, God 
Of all creation, hear us pray 
In rev’rence, awed 
By thy Son’s sacrifice. 
Praises we sing. 
We love thy law; we will obey. 
Our heav’nly King, 
In thee our hearts rejoice.

Hymn "Our Savior's Love" radio program

Thanksgiving Daily

Amber Waves

The 4th of July means, and has meant, many things to me over the years.

I like the way Angie Yasuda expresses it through pictures, music, and words in her

blog post of July 1, 2011.

Time is short

I read the following today, "Our time is so short that we need to be about God's business every day."  I like that.