Hi there,  Wow! What a delightful and challenging journey this past couple of years have been. I thought that this would be my primary format and I went to the blog talk radio instead. It is time for me to draw it together with my blog. I spoke in the past of freedom to speak and I see the yin and yang of it, the good and bad, forces of good and evil crowding in on us, giving us every reason personally not to think, not to "be", and not to raise our voice. It used to come more from outside of us, but the denial of our own life, growth, and existence is within our own grasp today in a very real way as we see all the usual addictions of alcohol, drugs, sex, and power along with ipods and wonderful forms of technology that can distract us and numb our minds, hearts, and consciousness of our responsibility to ourselves and to our fellow man. It is interesting to see the Lord's hand though. Facebook, twitter, and the many resources out there are tremendous that give us the ability not only to think, to stand for what we believe in, and to share that information, but we can share it with people that in ages past the average man could never have reached. What a wonderful time we live in!! What a challenging time we live in! It is a time where we each can make such a significant impact on the world as whole. I watch programs on You Tube of people without limbs serving others and teaching of hope and the joy of life, people that were aborted as children and survived, and little children who, when dying of cancer, leave notes of love everywhere to strengthen those they know they will be leaving behind. What a powerful legacy and opportunity.
In the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints we have the opportunity to stand on fast and testimony Sunday once a month and speak. We are to testify of Christ from our own circumstance and experience. I am very grateful for that component of the church. Without it we would be an entirely different church I believe. It gives each of us opportunity to do our part in keeping ourselves, as mortals, in line with the teachings of Jesus Christ. No one is excluded, young, old, maim and whole, with all range of economic status and every condition of human handicap.