Friday, January 1, 2016

A Good Read for New Year's

I'm sure you've all already read this classic, but I thought it would be a good re-read for today:

https://speeches.byu.edu/talks/jeffrey-r-holland_remember-lots-wife/

My favorite part?
As a new year starts and we try to benefit from a proper view of what has gone before, I plead with you not to dwell on days now gone, nor to yearn vainly for yesterdays, however good those yesterdays may have been. The past is to be learned from but not lived in. We look back to claim the embers from glowing experiences but not the ashes. And when we have learned what we need to learn and have brought with us the best that we have experienced, then we look ahead, we remember that faith is always pointed toward the future. 
AND
Faith is for the future. Faith builds on the past but never longs to stay there. Faith trusts that God has great things in store for each of us and that Christ truly is the “high priest of good things to come.”