(Our Focus this year in Relief Society is: CHARITY NEVER FAILETH )
Dear Sisters,
A new year often represents a clean slate, a new start for many in the world. Resolutions are made, goals are set, and the plan is to somehow become better this year than you were in the last. As members of the church, we know that this opportunity is available to us everyday through the gift of repentance. But, yet, it is also kind of nice to have a time to set down and evaluate where we are in our progress, and to recognize that we always have room to improve.
I think that the greatest source of improvement we can have as Heavenly Father’s children is gained through the development of CHARITY. It is through Charity that we truly come to know and understand our Savior and His plan for us. It is through Charity that we become like him. We hear so much of Charity, and yet are we sometimes overwhelmed by trying to have it? Are there so many aspects to it that we feel almost helpless to truly achieve it? Sister Jeannie McAllister wrote, “Living a Christ-like life doesn’t mean that we must single-handedly save our spouse, the office, the ward, or the world. It does mean we can aid our brothers and sisters with love and encouragement as we progress through life. It does mean we must care for and replenish ourselves regularly so that we are fuller, purer vessels from which others may draw sustenance.”
If we take a little more time to love, spend a little less on judging, fit in more personal study of the gospel, we will truly develop the character of Charity bit by bit in our lives. May this be our goal not just this year, but every year.
Love,
Jamie, Cindy, Loree, & Kathy
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