The Savior knows what it's like to die of cancer.

God's extraordinary work is most often done by ordinary people in the seeming obscurity of a home and family.

So it is that real, personal sacrifice never was placing an animal on the altar. Instead, it is a willingness to put the animal in us upon the altar and letting it be consumed! Such is the 'sacrifice unto the Lord... of a broken heart and a contrite spirit,' (D&C 59:8), a prerequisite to taking up the cross, while giving 'away all [our] sins' in order to 'know God' (Alma 22:18) for the denial of self precedes the full acceptance of Him.

We can be of so much service to others in many thou-shalt ways. Of course, the problem is that rendering such service takes time, and we are all so busy. Some situations may call for service that somehow seems to be beneath us. Besides, we have other things to do. The thou shalts are so convenient to put off. Who will notice the procrastination anyway? After all, we are not robbing a bank. Or are there forms of withholding that constitute stealing?

Truly we work and live on a streetful of splendid people, whom we are to love and serve even if they are uninterested in us!

Even the good can become careless without the Lord's being there to chasten.

On the straight and narrow path, there are simply no corners to be cut.