Spiritual Thoughts

W ithout hard work, nothing grows but weeds. ~ Gordon Hinckley   B ut you, be strong and   do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. ~ 2 Chronicles 15:7

Friday Tale - The Weeds in Our Lives I sn't it amazing how you never have to water your weeds or nurture them and they still give you an unwanted crop? I can remember as a young boy growing up in Santa Cruz, California my grandfather showed me how to dig up this pesky weed called Bermuda grass. It was terrible stuff and it would really spread if you didn't get it out by the roots. That was then. But more recently when my wife and I bought our first home about 8 years ago; guess what I had to deal with? If you said weeds, you are correct. There was this certain patch of weeds that was similar to the Bermuda grass. In other words, just as invasive. After getting the inside of our home settled, it was time to work on the outside. On my hands and knees I vigorously attacked the weeds with a small hand trowel getting each one out by the roots. Spring after, spring that was my ritual. Just this Spring I realized that one particular weed was no longer prevalent but ano...

Y our mind is a garden.         Your thoughts are the seeds.   You can grow flowers.       Or you can grow weeds. -Unknown N ow the parable is this: The seed is the word of God....  as for what fell among the weeds, they are those who hear,   but as they go on their way they are choked by the cares and     riches and pleasures of life, and their fruit does not mature. As for that in the god soil, they are those who, hearing the word,    hold it fast in an honest and good heart, and bear fruit with patience. -Luke 8:1, 14, 15