I am reading my scriptures in castellano and I had put in an article that I read in the Church News while I was serving in Miraflores, Peru (near Piura). I liked it so much that i taped it in like it was part of my scriptures, and it actually is, since it is from our living prophet Thomas S. Monson. Here's what it says. Read it. Absorb it. Live it. I will try to do it too.
"President Monson quoted from a national magazine article by Arthur Gordon, who wrote that on the day his father had promised to take him and his younger brother to the circus his father received a phone call about some urgent business that required his attention downtown. They boys, prepared to be disapopinted, heard their father say, "No, I won't be down. It'll have to wait." They boys' mother said, "The circus keeps coming back, you know." To this, the father said, "I know, but childhood doesn't."
President Monson said, "If you do something that turns out not quite as you had planned, you can almost always put it right, get over it, learn from it. But once you've missed out on something, it's gone...
"Send that note to the friend you've been neglecting; give your chld a compliment and a hug; say, 'I love you' more; always express your thanks. Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved. Friends move away, children grow up, loved ones pass on. It's so easy to take others for granted, until that day when they're gone from our lives adn we are left with feelings of 'what if' and 'if only'...Let us relish life as we live it, find joy in the journey and share our love with friends and family. One day, each of us will run out of tomorrows. Let us not put off what is most important."
:) Dang, is he SO right!
Being on facebook you come across many different statuses, some not so needful to know, some give you a chuckle, a repulsed response, apathy, and then there are some astounding and insightful quotes that get your mind thinking. Mine for the day is:
