Focusing on the Lord and everlasting life can help us not only at Christmas, but through all the challenges of mortality.

While we are free to choose, once we have made those choices, we are tied to the consequences of those choices.

Unfinished business is our worst business. Perpetual procrastination must yield to perceptive preparation. Today we have a little more time to bless others-time to be kinder, more compassionate, quicker to thank and slower to scold, more generous in sharing, more gracious in caring.

The development of faith in the Lord is an individual matter. Repentance is also an individual matter. Only as an individual can one be baptized and receive the Holy Ghost. Each of us is born individually; likewise, each of us is "born again" individually. Salvation is an individual matter.

The Lord's way is the only way for us to experience enduring happiness. His way brings sustained comfort to our souls and perennial peace to our homes.

The Savior's way of life is good.

In the pursuit of education, individual desire is more influential than institution, and personal faith more forceful than faculty.