Life

Life is interesting... There are those curve balls that find the inside, and then some, and smack you right in the kidney. Then there are those beautiful meat balls that come right down the center and have homerun written all over it.

A few weeks ago I did not know what I was going to do. I got smacked in the kidney and didn't want to get up. Coach came out from the dugout and made me get up. I stood at the plate a little unsure, but I had to face it because I couldn't back down.

A few pitches later I got the meat ball. Things are going better and even better than I thought it would. The Lord has blessed me significantly and then some. It is a true testament to obedience and living your life in accordance with the laws of God.

Today I had the opportunity to read Lectures on Faith. Wow! What amazing insights.

I really liked Lecture Six. It talks about sacrifice and how we must have a sure knowledge before we are ready to sacrifice in our hearts. We must also be in the path of the Lord.

"Such was, and always will be, the situation of the saints of God, that unless they have an actual knowledge that the course they are pursuing is according to the will of God, they will grow weary in their minds, and faint."

"A religion that does not require the sacrifice of all things never has the power sufficient to produce the faith necessary unto life and salvation."

What a debt of gratitude we owe to Joseph Smith who had faith enough to ask God the Father which of all the churches were true; then to follow his answer, amid persecution, and restore the fullness of the gospel of Jesus Christ to the earth.