Seek a Balanced Life: It's Super Tuesday

Tuesday, February 5, 2008

It's Super Tuesday

Just a little reminder of our responsibility as citizens of this great country...

"Now, I want to say to you, and I say it with a plea in my heart, get involved. Get involved on the side of righteousness and truth and decency and sobriety and virtue. You, and others like you, are the great hope of this world. . . .

The problem with most of us is that we are afraid. We want to do the right thing, but we are troubled by fears and the world drifts about us . . .

'Be not afraid, only believe.' I commend to you these wonderful words of the Lord as you think of your responsibilities and opportunities. "(Teachings of Gordon B. Hinckley, 128–29)

I haven't posted anything political, but if you want to read what some other bloggers have said read Emily's erudition or Alice's antics. And here's a very professionally done commercial by 23 year old college student, Ryan Whitaker.

4 comments:

AJ said...: For some further info on the candidates, check out the link Alisa just posted on her blog. Very informative I thought (I directed her to it) and somewhat enlightening.; February 5, 2008 at 4:23 PM
Unknown said...: Thanks for the link...I love that!

Glad to see you encouraging voters...I am crossing my fingers as I watch the results tonight!; February 5, 2008 at 7:23 PM
Lindsey Rose said...: hey friend, I love that quote. I was so happy to hear from you today too. We miss you guys and keep us updated on everything. I told Doug tonight that you called and he said he really wanted to talk to Glenn. So tell him hi and that Doug will call when he gets a minute.; February 5, 2008 at 9:39 PM
Yomama said...: Oh, yeah... The trick now is to be not dismayed, God's still in charge. I confess I chose not to be a delegate in the state GOP convention when Romney suspended, because I had nothing to feel strongly about. But I will try to come to some kind of resolution by election time... Love you more, Yomama; February 11, 2008 at 11:36 PM

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Words to Live By

"Seeking balance among the essential responsibilities of life is preparatory to salvation." Donald L. Hallstrom

“The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.”
- Frank Lloyd Wright

“We must be so careful in speaking to a child. What we say or don’t say, how we say it and when is so very, very important in shaping a child’s view of himself or herself.” Jeffrey R. Holland

“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. ” Marcus Aurelius Antonius (121 AD – 180 AD)

"We should never be discouraged in those daily tasks which God has ordained to the common lot of man. Each day’s labor should be undertaken in a joyous spirit and with the thought and conviction that our happiness and eternal welfare depend upon doing well that which we ought to do, that which God has made it our duty to do.”
President Joseph F. Smith

“Be the one to make a stand for right, even if you stand alone. Have the moral courage to be a light for others to follow. There is no friendship more valuable than your own clear conscience.” LDS Church President and Prophet Thomas S. Monson

“Good homes are not easily created or maintained. They require discipline, not so much of the children as of self. They require respect for others, that respect which comes best from acceptance of the revealed word of the Lord concerning the purpose of life, of the importance and sacred nature of the family, and recognition of each member of the family as a child of God.” – President Gordon B. Hinckley

"Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on: you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently, He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make sense. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of--throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were going to be made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace." - C.S. Lewis

In the Abyss of Infinity, perhaps the miserable parts

of our present lives and the evils we encounter

matter less than the good we do and the good done for us.

Do good. Obey God. Happiness will find you.

~boap.org