ON OUR WAY HOME - BACK TO THE BASICS

Hi Gang,

I meant to write about this earlier, but it has been a crazy week. We had a fantastic Sacrament meeting last week at MI. The theme was on the importance of having the Spirit with us at all times by doing the basics -

prayer and scripture study. It was a theme that we had all heard many times before - in fact, one of the speakers who had been a member for 10 years mentioned that he had heard this theme at least once a month for all ten years.

However, it is one of the most powerful things we can do to show our devotion to Heavenly Father, his plan, and the Savior. It is an indicator of our dedication and commitment to worship and to maintaining a connection to Heavenly Father in our present mortal state.

Prayer and scripture study are two of the simple things out of which comes that which is great. That is the genius and power of the gospel - it takes the small and simple things of the earth and creates that which is great.

One of the youth speakers, who is a great football player, told a story about life adapted from his football coach. He felt that there were two dogs inside him, a good dog and a mean dog. The one that dominated was the one he fed the most.

Similarly, we have a physical side and a spiritual side. We need to feed good food to our physical bodies to keep them healthy; but we also need to feed our spiritual bodies to keep them healthy.

I know that if we, as a family, commit ourselves to focused daily prayer and scripture study we will be greatly blessed.

Luv to all,

Gramps