Be careful if you ride in the elevators of the Church Office building. You cannot know who you will meet there. As Brother Cook told us, many leave that building with a very heavy weight on their shoulders and the response while considering this may be to look down. If you encounter President Monson on the elevator it would certainly be better to be “Looking Up.”
We encounter here in Brasil, many who are looking down, both figuratively and actually. There is a heavy weight for many here with money problems, health challenges and lack of purpose or education. On the other hand, there are these groups of members of the Church here who are “looking up” every time we see them. These are the ones who have decided to accept the offer of having the companionship of the Holy Ghost in their lives. They support one another and carry out their callings just like it is happening across the world.
If we pay attention, we will find as he has that; “We will come to realize that most of what we worry about is not of eternal significance—and if it is, the Lord will help us. But we must have the faith to look up and the courage to follow His direction.”
In our time on earth we will follow paths that are different for each of us, but then we find out that:
❑ Most of our worries do not end up as significant as they seemed while passing through them, and;
❑ The Lord will help us, usually in unexpected ways with tender mercies realized later.
So the challenge to us is to “LOOK UP” and take President Monson’s attitudes of:
- CAN DO
- WILL DO
I appreciate Elder Cook’s reminder of this simple principle and I’m thankful for my wife Shirlyn who practices this everyday.
1 comment:
I liked it when he said, "Look up and step up and cheer up. God wants us to be happy!"
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