This summer I went to Kenya to build a school in the slums with the service group “World of Difference” (www.makeaworldofdifference.org). Part of our expedition included a safari and I took this photo. In setting up my blog, I was trying to find a photo to add and I found this tree. Perhaps it stands symbolic of this blog. It stands strong, stalwart, and majestic. Although it stands alone, it adds unique beauty and composition to this photo.
We, too, add majestically to the masterpiece of God's plan for His children. Instead of feeling sorry for ourselves, we need to roll up our sleeves and get to work. There are hands that hang down, hungry to be fed (physically and spiritually), and hearts that are broken.
Instead of looking inward, let us stretch our branches and look outward and seek to bless the lives of those in our circle of influence.
Elder Neal A. Maxwell said, “No one else is placed exactly as we are in our opportune human orbits.”
(Ensign, July 2002 “Consecrate Thy Performance.”) There are
opportunities for service
right in our way. Do not let them pass by,
(because we are not married), saying, “Sometime I’ll try…when I’m married with kids.” NO,
go and do something TODAY!
(see Hymn #223)
"Let us reach to lift hands which hang hopelessly down.”
Elder Neal A. Maxwell, Ensign, Nov. 1994, 36.
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