To Live Greatly

June 20th, 2010

What is the key to living a great life, full of accomplishment and joy, where everyday is a new adventure? Here’s a hint: By seeking after things that are praiseworthy, virtuous and of good report.

Living a life of true fulfillment is the only way to live, yet there are too many people in the world that confuse true fulfillment and accomplishment with giving into temptation. “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” But I would like to add, you must be the change of good you wish to see in the world. Too many people are evolving into beings that are more carnal and primitive instead of what their true potential is. Their heritage, our heritage, is something much, much greater. Where we come from, where we began, should influence who we become. And I am not referring to our physical beginning.

“To live greatly, we must develop the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and triumph with humility. You ask, “How might we achieve these goals?” I answer, “By gaining a true perspective of who we really are!” We are sons and daughters of a living God, in whose image we have been created.” ~Thomas S. Monson

This is just a quick post to honor and remember the Father of us all, who created us, and with every fiber of His being, wants us to become like Him……fulfilling the capacity and purpose of our creation……with GREATNESS!

Happy Fathers Day Everyone!

Invictus

June 15th, 2010

If you haven’t yet seen the movie, watch “Invictus.” It will inspire you, as will this poem.

A Poem written by the English poet William Ernest Henley (1849–1903)

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.