Patience stoutly resists pulling up the daisies to see how the roots are doing!

Oh, how great the plan of our God!

Progress is measured by milestones. What many good people lack are markers that might tell them how they are actually doing. Goals can become a ritual or a fetish, but in the right measure they can give us some much needed reference points. No wonder some seem discouraged! Minus such milestones, we often feel minus in our lives

Though we have rightly applauded our ancestors for their spiritual achievements ... those of us who prevail today will have done no small thing.

Listen to these wounds of pain put in the form of questions to me by a young woman who had had two abortions: "I wonder about the spirits of those I had aborted, if they were there, if they were hurt? I was under three months each time, but a mother feels life before she feels movement." "I wonder if they are lost and alone?" "I wonder if they will ever have a body?" "I wonder if I will ever have a chance again to bring those spirits back as mine?" Alas, brothers and sisters, "wickedness never was happiness" (Alma 41:10).

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

Unproductive worry - like Parkinson's proverbial law - tends to expand to fill the time available.