A Vision, a Promise, an Insight.

A shorter entry tonight, my friends, but an important one to be made.

While sitting alone and considering the needs of my Gospel Doctrine Sunday School class, I considered sharing with them the fact that I had decided to make a blog of my my own and commit to regular updates. I thought of the need to share with them things of value, in the realization that expecting anyone to take of their own 24 hours and invest any portion reading what I have written here means there rests upon me the obligation to provide content that will generate significant return on that investment.

Under the weight of that realization I chose to make a commitment: Every entry I make here will be written with the intent to provide something of value, something that builds, uplifts, and inspires the Highest within us to enter a bit more fully into daily living. I want my readers to find this a place for simple Truth to have a resting place, a place one can go to read stories from a common man just changing the world for the better one day and one life (often my own) at a time.

I know sometimes I just need somewhere I can go, someone I can turn to to get some uplift, not to hear about how bad things are, how hopeless "it" is, etc. but to hear the old, yet new every time I hear it, counsel that there is, as said Master Samwise in the midst of darkness, light and beauty no shadow can touch, and to read or hear someone say with all conviction that - for all of us - Happiness is attainable in the pursuit thereof. We should cultivate uplifting sources to which we can connect with those who share our vision for becoming the best we can be - "the more the merrier" never had truer application than in this circumstance.  :)

I do not commit to daily entries here, though this will sometimes be my pattern; I will write as often as I have something meaningful to say, and I know the people in need will find what God grants me to offer others. I'm just a regular, simple son of God, figuring life out with Father's help; I'll do what I can to help all my brothers and sisters, or, in other words, all mankind with any upright desire. So it is. S.D.G.

Here is an insight I was able to frame into words, the original impression of which burst upon my mind 10 March 2012, in the mid-afternoon...it will not give up all its meaning immediately, but a little pondering will do the soul good:

"The fairest gem can do no more than cast back the light it is surrounded by; change the light, change the fire."

Till next time.  :)