We can with confidence set a goal to make this Christmas brighter than the last and each year that follows brighter still.

We need strength beyond ourselves to keep the commandments in whatever circumstance life brings to us. The combination of trials and their duration are as varied as are the children of our Heavenly Father. No two are alike. But what is being tested is the same, at all times in our lives and for every person: will we do whatsoever the Lord our God will command us?

Every child of Heavenly Father born in the world is given at birth, as a free gift, the Light of Christ.

As we do what He would have us do for His children, the Lord considers it kindness to Him, and we will feel closer to Him as we feel His love and His approval. In time, we will become like Him, and will think of the judgement day with happy anticipation.

You may feel overwhelmed by your own poverty and the labors of the day. But if you decide not to wait until you have more strength and more money, and if you pray for the Holy Spirit as you go, you will, when you arrive, know what to do and how to help someone even poorer than you are.

The problem of using your time well is not a problem of the mind but of the heart.

The great test of life is to see whether we will hearken to and obey God's commands in the midst of the storms of life.