Humility

"Humility isn't thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less."

- C.S. Lewis

Serving your fellowman will never decrease your self-esteem, but it will very likely increase the esteem of others for you. Being humble enough to serve and to be served allows you to trade in love and kindness, the commerce of which always makes the world a better place.

Power to Savor the Sweet

At a craft show I saw the following thought:

"True power doesn't need batteries."

True power is the strength to continue through whatever life throws at us without choosing to be pulled down. This power comes from trusting in Jesus Christ, for it is by His grace - His enabling power - that we are able to advance despite the storms of the devil and the world that rage around us. He can give us this power because, as Neal A. Maxwell put it, "Jesus partook of history’s bitterest cup without becoming bitter!" (https://www.lds.org/ensign/1997/04/enduring-well?lang=eng).

Evaluating Entertainment

What do you do for entertainment? The movies today and the shows on television are changing their standards. They are changing their rating system so that it will be a little more appealing. Can you depend upon the rating system today? I heard a couple of young people talking about a particular television show. They said, “Well, it wasn’t too bad. It had a couple or three rough spots in it—a little adultery and murder and obscenity and brutality and quarreling and profanity and dishonesty. But other than that, it was a pretty good show.” I don’t know what kind of boiling system we’re going through where somehow evil doesn’t look like evil anymore. We can become homogenized in our judgment, in our discrimination, in our values, to the point where we can’t discern between good and evil if we’re not careful. It can happen gradually, like freezing to death. We can become seriously numb before we even know it.

    - "The Gift That Matters Most", J. Richard Clarke

Perseverance

Stick to your task ‘til it sticks to you;
Beginners are many, but enders are few.
Honor, power, place and praise
Will always come to the one who stays.
Stick to your task ‘til it sticks to you;
Bend at it, sweat at it, smile at it, too;
For out of the bend and the sweat and the smile
Will come life’s victories after a while.
—Author Unknown