Thursday, December 13, 2012


Happiness, Your Heritage 
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
RS broadcast Oct. 2008

 I rewatched this talk today.  It really hit home for me the first time I watched it in '08. Particularly the part about creating rings true with me. It has given me some direction, understanding, and perspective as far as my relatively new role as a mom.
 Here are some of my favorite lines from it.

~ If you are a mother, you participate with God in His work of creation—not only by providing physical bodies for your children but also by teaching and nurturing them.

~Our birthright—and the purpose of our great voyage on this earth—is to seek and experience eternal happiness. One of the ways we find this is by creating things

~Remember that you are spirit daughters of the most creative Being in the universe

~“Progress, and improve upon and make beautiful everything around you. Cultivate the earth, and cultivate your minds. Build cities, adorn your habitations, make gardens, orchards, and vineyards, and render the earth so pleasant that when you look upon your labors you may do so with pleasure, and that angels may delight to come and visit your beautiful locations. In the mean time continually seek to adorn your minds with all the graces of the Spirit of Christ.”

~The more you trust and rely upon the Spirit, the greater your capacity to create. That is your opportunity in this life and your destiny in the life to come.

~James Barrie, the author of Peter Pan: “Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.”




Just saw that they made the talk into a Mormon Message; I don't think this message captures the depth of his message though.     




No comments:

Post a Comment