Trust in the Lord

Proverbs 3:5-8

Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil.
It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.

2 Nephi 22:2

 Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid; 

for theLord Jehovah is my strength and my song; 

he also has become my salvation.

Spirit Can Guide All Aspects of Life

“I don’t think there’s any intent on the part of the Lord that we compartmentalize how the Spirit is used so that it’s only in purely religious areas,” says Elder Richard G. Scott of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. Speaking at a seminar hosted by the Church’s Human Resources Department.

Prepare for Inspiration

Elder Scott said that sometimes he needs to evaluate what he’s doing that could be inhibiting the Spirit. “There are things that impact the full and open guidance of the Spirit. And I think that we wouldn’t be honest with ourselves, if that’s true in our life, if we don’t recognize that and try and change it, try and improve it,” he said.

We also need to be humble, he said. “Someone that is humble is accessible by the Spirit to be taught. . . . When we are humble in that sense, we can be prompted by the Lord.”

Invite the Spirit

As we prepare ourselves to receive inspiration, we are able to invite the Spirit into all facets of our life, Elder Scott said. Regarding using the Spirit in our professions, he said, “If I approach [my job] with the attitude and vision that I can be inspired in the implementation of that work, I’m going to get help and the work’s going to improve.”

He shared experiences where he felt that the Spirit guided him in his professional life, and he said, “I sought guidance of the Spirit in everything I did, professionally as well as what I did in Church and my own family life and my personal life. . . . You don’t have to be President of the Church to be guided professionally in what you do each day. The Lord’s aware of you and wants to help you, just like He’ll help President Monson.”

Father, Cheer Our Souls Tonight

Father, cheer our souls tonight;
Lift our burdens, make them light.
Let thine all-pervading love
Shine upon us from above.

Calm the surges of the soul;
Bid the dark waves backward roll.
Let us all thy mercies feel
Thru the pow’r thou dost reveal.

Bless our loved ones far away;
Grant them health and peace, we pray.
In their hearts let holy light
Beam to guide their steps aright.

 Let implicit faith and trust
Help us know thy ways are just.
May thine ever-tender love
Lead our hearts to thee above.

Text: Ellis Reynolds Shipp, 1847–1939

Music: Orlando Gibbons, 1583–1625, alt.

D&C 61: 36-37

 36And now, verily I say unto you, and what I say unto one I say unto all, be of good ^acheer, ^blittle children; 

for I am in your^cmidst, and I have not ^dforsaken you;

 37And inasmuch as you have humbled yourselves before me, 

the blessings of the ^akingdom are yours.

Looking for the Good

BY PRESIDENT DIETER F.UCHTDORF

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"We have a choice. We can seek for the bad in others. Or we can make peace and work to extend to others the understanding, fairness, and forgiveness we so desperately desire for ourselves. It is our choice; for whatever we seek, that we will certainly find."

"I don't like that man.  I must get to know him better."  

~Abraham Lincoln

"I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." 

~Galileo Galilei

Nay, Speak No Ill

 Nay, speak no ill; a kindly word

Can never leave a sting behind;

And, oh, to breathe each tale we’ve heard

Is far beneath a noble mind.

Full oft a better seed is sown

By choosing thus the kinder plan,

For, if but little good is known,

Still let us speak the best we can.

 Give me the heart that fain would hide,

Would fain another’s faults efface.

How can it please the human pride

To prove humanity but base?

No, let us reach a higher mood,

A nobler estimate of man;

Be earnest in the search for good,

And speak of all the best we can.

Then speak no ill, but lenient be

To others’ failings as your own.

If you’re the first a fault to see,

Be not the first to make it known,

For life is but a passing day;

No lip may tell how brief its span.

Then, oh, the little time we stay,

Let’s speak of all the best we can.

Text and music: Anon., ca. 1853

 29Let no corrupt ^acommunication proceed out of your mouth, 

but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.

 30And ^agrieve not the holy ^bSpirit of God, 

whereby ye are^csealed unto the day of redemption.

 31Let all bitterness, and wrath, and ^aanger, and clamour, 

and^bevil ^cspeaking, be put away from you, with all ^dmalice:

 32And be ye ^akind one to another, tenderhearted, 

^bforgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.

Ephesians 4:29–32

Our Potential

Dearest Children, God Is Near You

 Dearest children, God is near you,
Watching o’er you day and night,
And delights to own and bless you,
If you strive to do what’s right.
He will bless you, He will bless you,
If you put your trust in him.

John Menzies Macfarlane, 1833–1892

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.  

~St. Augustine

“You must act ever in the consciousness of your divinity and recognize in each being, a brother,  a child of God. The whole world is one family.”

Sri Sathya Sai Baba “You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.”  Nelson Rockefeller  “As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.”  Abdul Kalam Psalm 82:6  I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are achildren of the most High. "Never forget, my dear young friends, that you really are  a child of God  who has inherited something of His divine nature,  one whom He loves  and desires to help and bless. `Gordon B. Hinckley, 2003