Not Enough of Me

Just One More Day

She was up at 3 am and again at 5 am with sick kids.  After cleaning up the throw-up she was able get a few minutes of sleep before fixing her husband’s breakfast.  They had family prayer and sent her husband off to work.  He’s been working overtime.  She ran the daughter to violin lessons and the son to gymnastics. She worked on her Young Women lesson as she and her toddler waited in the car.  Just one more day and her husband would be back to his normal schedule.

There’s Just Not Enough of Me to Go Around!

He filled the empty fishing net. And Simon answering said unto him, Master, we have toiled all the night, and have taken nothing: nevertheless at thy word I will let down the net.  And when they had this done, they enclosed a great multitude of fishes: and their net brake. (Luke 5:5,6.)

A Needed Rest

At the senior citizen center she volunteers 3 hours a day 4 days a week.  She checks-in the elderly for lunch. On her way to the center this morning she stopped to buy 3-ring binders and a new Boy Scout shirt, for herself.  She was just called by the bishop to help with the scout troop. She now had 9 scouts! After arriving home and taking a rest she went to the genealogy library to do some more work on the “Hill” line.  She’ll be 89 on Monday.

There’s Just Not Enough of Me to Go Around!

He raised Lazarus from the dead.  Then said Jesus unto them plainly, Lazarus is dead. … Then when Jesus came, he found that he had lain in the grave four days already … he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth.   And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go (John 11).

No Time for Lunch

First it was a text from his home teaching family asking if he could stop by the hospital and give their son a blessing, he just had a bike accident.  Next came an email marked “urgent” from the boss.  He insisted that the quarterly report be completed early – today by 3:00.   At 5:30 pm he grabbed his lunch as he ran out of his office to catch his son’s 6:00 soccer game.  He takes a bite of his sandwich going down the elevator.   As he gets on the freeway, he notices he has a flat tire.

There’s Just Not Enough of Me to Go Around!

He made the fish and bread to feed the thousand.  And Jesus saith unto them,  How many loaves have ye?  And they said, Seven, and a few little fishes.  And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground. And he took the seven loaves and the fishes, and gave thanks, and brake them, and gave to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude.  And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the broken meat that was left seven baskets full.  And they that did eat were four thousand men, beside women and children (Matthew 15: 34-38).

The Lord Can Enlarge Me, Expand Me, Magnify Me!

Gordon B. Hinckley overseen the building of the 21,000 seat Conference Center, the issuance of the Proclamation on the Family, and the creation of the church’s Perpetual Education Fund.  In all, Gordon B. Hinckley dedicated or rededicated 92 different temples — 87 while president of the church — at 97 different dedicatory services- including the historic Nauvoo Illinois Temple.  At the time of Hinckley’s death, approximately one-third of the church’s membership had joined the church under Hinckley’s leadership. ( Gordon B. Hinckley From Wikipedia.)

Done in Wisdom

“Hardest of all is achieving the right mix or balance between competing good things.  No secret formula will achieve this for us … The right balance is probably different for each person and also changes for each person over time.  Above all, a person grounded in the gospel of Jesus Christ and enjoying the sweet companionship of the Holy Ghost will find balance, even—or especially—in the face of overwhelming, unavoidable burdens.” (John C. Taggart, “All Things in Wisdom and Order,” Ensign, Aug. 2010.)

Gospel Principle

God can make enough of me to go around!

“But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles;
they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.” (Isa. 40: 31.)

Additional Information

Mormon Message-You Tube. Stephanie Nielson, survivor of a near-fatal plane crash, shares her story of a beautiful life centered on faith in Jesus Christ and love of family.

The talk featured at the end of this message  Jeffrey R. Holland, “Lessons from Liberty Jail,” Ensign, Sep. 2009.

Alexander B. Morrison, “On Eagles’ Wings,” New Era, Oct. 1996 .

Dieter F. Uchtdorf, “On the Wings of Eagles,” Ensign, Jul. 2006.