Friends

I got a visit from a dear long time friend. (We go back to elementary school) She wanted to start walking again. We did that several years ago. Then life happened and we lost touch. When she came to walk today, she handed me a package and wished me happy birthday and Merry Christmas. I opened it to find a framed picture of my parents when they went to the Denver Temple open house back in October 1986. They took the train over to Denver with her parents. I was glad to get the picture. I love this dear friend. Grateful we can pick up where we left off. I'm grateful for friends and acquaintances who come into our lives and make them better!

Amazing Grace

The choir sang this song on Sunday with a beautiful piano and cello accompaniment. We were blessed to have the Spirit with us also. Help from heaven.

"Amazing grace, how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me.

I once was lost but now am found, was blind but now I see.

'Twas grace that taught my heart to fear, and grace my fears relieved.

How precious did that grace appear the hour I first believed.

Through many dangers, toils and snares I have already come; 

'Tis grace that brought me safe thus far, and grace will lead me home."

From Sheri Dew's book 'Amazed By Grace' Elder Bruce R. McConkie said that "if it were not for the grace of God, there would be nothing - no creation, no fall, no mortal probation, no redemption, no immortality, no eternal life. It is God's grace that underlies all things, and...that makes all things possible. Without it there would be nothing; with it there is everything." 

Elder Jeffrey R. Holland added further clarity: "Much of the miraculous help we find in the gospel is just that-a miracle from heaven, the power of divine priesthood, the attendance of angels administering to us through a very thin veil. These are gifts from God, manifestations of His grace."

How grateful I am for the Saviors amazing grace! 

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A message from Elder Jeffrey R Holland:

"What a terrific time to be alive!

The gospel of Jesus Christ is the most certain, the most secure, the most reliable, and the most rewarding truth on earth and in heaven, in time and in eternity. Nothing - not anything, not anyone, not any influence - will keep the Church from fulfilling its mission and realizing its destiny declared from before the foundation of the world. Ours is that fail-safe, inexorable, indestructible dispensation of the fullness of the gospel. There is no need to be afraid or tentative about the future.

Unlike every other era before us, this dispensation will not experience an institutional apostasy; it will not see a loss of priesthood keys; it will not suffer a cessation of revelation from the voice of Almighty God. Individuals will apostatize or turn a deaf ear to heaven, but never again will the dispensation collectively do so. What a secure thought! What a day in which to live!

If there are some bumps along the way while waiting to see every promise kept and every prophecy fulfilled, so be it. If you haven't noticed, I am bullish about the latter days. In nothing could I have more faith than I have in God the Eternal Father, in Jesus Christ His Son, in Their redeeming gospel, and in their divinely-guided Church. Believe. Rise up. Be faithful. And make the most of the remarkable day in which we live!"