Saturday, May 28, 2011

Finding Joy in the Journey--Spoken Word Delivered by Lloyd D. Newell


Finding Joy in the JourneyDelivered By: Lloyd D. Newell
Life can be hard. Ask anyone.
Daily, it seems, the media brings wars, natural disasters, destruction, and gloom right to our front rooms—all of this piled on top of the personal challenges and disappointments we’re already facing. It’s enough to make it difficult for us to see the joy in the journey of life.
But it is there. How can we find it? How can we focus so that we feel it and make good cheer our mantra?
The great American philosopher Henry David Thoreau "used to lie abed for awhile in the morning telling himself all the good news he could think of; that he had a healthy body, that his mind was alert, that his work was interesting, that the future looked bright, that a lot of people trusted him. [Then] he arose to meet the day in a world filled for him with good things, good people, good opportunities.”1
We can do the same. We can, like Thoreau, begin the day searching the quiet chambers of our hearts for good memories and good omens. We can be like a child, quick to forgive, easy to please, able to find joy in the seemingly insignificant—because nothing that brings true joy is insignificant. In the process we will muster courage, hopefulness, and bright resolve to face the day, and we may be able to help others see how much good news life really does hold.
The best in each one of us is much more profound than the pressures on every side. Thoreau spoke well when he said, "You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.”2
1 Norman Vincent Peale, Enthusiasm Makes the Difference, rev. ed. (2003), 17.
2 The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: Journal, March 2, 1859–November 30, 1859, ed. Bradford Torrey (1906), 159.
Program 4262
Musical Selections:
1. The Heavens are Telling
Franz Josef Haydn; Public Domain
2. Look to the Day
John Rutter; Collegium Music
3. In Joyful Praise
Laurence Lyon; Harold Flammer (Organ solo)
4. He Shall Feed His Flock
John Ness Beck; Beckenhorst Press
5. Spoken Word
6. Oh, What a Beautiful Morning, from Oklahoma
Richard Rodgers; arr. Arthur Harris; Arrangement Unpublished
7. Redeemer of Israel
Freeman Lewis; arr. Mack Wilberg; Hinshaw Music

About Me

我是在1996年12月29日受洗加入耶穌基督後期聖徒教會. 我在此留下我對這復興的福音的見證,我知道約瑟斯密確實是神的先知; 藉由約瑟斯密,神復興了耶穌基督的教會即耶穌基督後期聖徒教會; 摩爾門經是耶穌基督的另一部約書,與聖經共同見證耶穌是基督.而我們今日仍有一位活著的先知,多馬孟蓀會長 I joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on December 29, 1996. I know that Joseph Smith was and is a prophet of God. The Book of Mormon is indeed Another Testament of Jesus Christ. We have a living prophet today, even President Thomas S. Monson.