December Thoughts

Submitted by Joan Painter.

What a beautiful time of year.  Thanksgiving is a nice time to reflect and express gratitude for all we have.  Next we get to prepare to celebrate the birth of our Savior.  In 3 Nephi 20:24 we read, “ Verily I say unto you, yea, and all the prophets from Samuel and those that follow after, as many as have spoken, have testified of me. “  What if we each also try to testify of our Savior as we get ready for Christmas.  Let us testify of him through our words and actions.  Let us try each day to make somebody else’s day better by simply testifying of Christ.  We can do something as simple and inexpensive as smiling, saying “HI” or wishing someone a” Merry Christmas.” If we do this we all know that our lives are touched also.

Pres. Hinckley has said, ”I am grateful for Christmas.  I am grateful for the spirit of the day and grateful for the outreach that comes into our hearts art this season of the year when we think a little more kindly of one another, when there is a little less bitterness, when there is a little less of hate, when there is more of love and more of reaching out to those in trouble and need and distress.  I thank the Lord for Christmas.”

I too thank the Lord for Christmas.  I pray that we can testify of Christ and feel the love our Savior has for us as we serve others.

Thank you Joan!!