" Those who have felt the touch of the Master’s hand somehow cannot explain the change which comes into their lives. There is a desire to live better, to serve faithfully, to walk humbly, and to be more like the Savior. Having received their spiritual eyesight and glimpsed the promises of eternity, they echo the words of the blind man to whom Jesus restored sight: "One thing I know, that, whereas I was blind, now I see." How can we account for these miracles? Why the upsurge of activity in men long dormant? The poet, speaking of death, wrote, "God … touch’d him, and he slept." I say, speaking of this new birth, "God touched them, and they awakened." Two fundamental reasons largely account for these changes of attitudes, of habits, of actions. First, men have been shown their eternal possibilities and have made the decision to achieve them. They cannot really long rest content with mediocrity once excellence is within their reach. Second, other men and women and, yes, young people have followed the admonition of the Savior and have loved their neighbors as themselves and helped to bring their neighbors’ dreams to fulfillment and their ambitions to realization. The catalyst in this process has been the principle of love." ~President Thomas S. Monson~
Posted on: Sat, 24 Aug 2013 04:37:29 +0000
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