The knowledge which we seek, the answers for which we yearn, and the strength which we desire today to meet the challenges of a complex and changing world can be ours when we willingly obey the Lord’s commandments.

Each of us has much for which to be grateful if we will but pause and contemplate our blessings.

Times change, years speed by, but Christmas continues sacred. It is through giving, rather than getting, that the spirit of Christ enters our lives. God still speaks. He prompts. He guides. He blesses. He gives.

In reality, we are all travelers - even explorers of mortality.

We will never regret the kind words spoken or the affection shown. Rather, our regrets will come if such things are omitted from our relationships with those who mean the most to us.

Find someone who is having a hard time or is ill or lonely, and do something for him or her.

It is impossible to stand upright when one plants his roots in the shifting sands of popular opinion and approval.