Week 11

Planning our Day vs. Seeking a Higher Plan

  1. Growth and renewal are less about setting goals than submitting to His will
  1. Growth and renewal are less about fixing ourselves than in being fixed by Him.
  1. Growth and renewal are less about using psychology (and management and finance and...) than about using covenants.

Solutions for Families and Communities

Children come before work

Parents need to look hard at their financial situation and their work schedules and create more time for their children

Developmentally appropriate emotional and intellectual interactions

Floor time: at least 30 minutes a day that is set aside for you and your child

Involvement in Child's schools and communities

Children need to see that their parents are not only doing their best to provide them with warmth, protection, and security but also are extending those efforts out into their schools and communities

The Freedom Principle

The answer to most of America’s problems can be solved by returning to CONSTITUTIONAL principles

Without religion, the government of a free people cannot be maintained

The proper role of government is to protect equal rights, NOT to provide equal things

The core unit, which determines the strength of any society, is the FAMILY

Let your voice be heard. Stand up for the principles of freedom.

All things were created by God. Therefore, upon Him all mankind are equally dependent, and to Him they are equally responsible

Taxes in Sweden

The system will take care of you. And, I mean, that’s why I think it’s okay to pay a lot of taxes.

Hurricane Sandy Helping Hands

The people from a the Church of Latter-days Saints were just in the street one day, hundreds of ‘em then they were just helping hands, like it says on their vest.

The people are so bloody friendly. They’re happy. They’re smiling. They kind of make you feel good. Which is a nice thing in this situation

They’re hard working; they never ask for anything

This is really church. Ya know, when the teachings of Jesus Christ sink down into your soul deep enough, you want to help your fellow man. And when the ox is in the mire, and that’s an understatement here, it’s time for us to put all of our energy and our effort to try and help them out.

People know what they can expect out of someone wearing a yellow vest. They know that they’re going to get cared for. They know that they work that the people do is going to come from the heart. It’s not going to cost any money

Santa Ana Building a Healthy Community

I think a healthy community provides a lot of programs for their community.

A healthy community means open space, kids being able to play in the streets

A healthy community means like to have good moral values and habits that form the basis to raise a healthy person, a healthy family, a healthy community, and a healthy nation.

The Jones Center

Everyone can do something for someone else, and I want these kids to all grow up with that in their hearts and in their minds to help and do for others.

When you’re serving others, you’re serving yourself too, because that’s where you get your joy. In satisfaction.

Gospel Connections

Timing by Elder Dallin H. Oaks

The familiar observation that “timing is everything” surely overstates the point, but timing is vital

Ecclesiastes 3:1-2, 4-5, 7

In all the important decisions in our lives, what is most important is to do the right thing. Second, and only slightly behind the first, is to do the right thing at the right time.

People who do the right thing at the wrong time can be frustrated and ineffective.

The Lord's Timing

Faith means trust—trust in God’s will, trust in His way of doing things, and trust in His timetable

We cannot have true faith in the Lord without also having complete trust in the Lord’s will and in the Lord’s timing.

People who do not accept continuing revelation sometimes get into trouble by doing things too soon or too late or too long

Agency of Others

Some of our most important plans cannot be brought to pass without the agency and actions of others

Applications to our Lives

The timing of marriage is perhaps the best example of an extremely important event in our lives that is almost impossible to plan

We can and should work for and pray for our righteous desires

So what should be done in the meantime?

Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ prepares us for whatever life brings

Commit yourself to put the Lord first in your life, keep His commandments, and do what the Lord’s servants ask you to do. Then your feet are on the pathway to eternal life.