The pavilion that seems to be hiding you from God may be fear of man rather than this desire to serve others. The Savior's only motivation was to help people... I challenge you to go for the Lord to someone, despite any fear you may have, to extend love and forgiveness. I promise you that as you do, you will feel the love of the Savior for that person and His love for you, and it will not seem to come from a great distance.
Interpretation
Fear of judgment often keeps us from serving others fully, but love and forgiveness can bridge that gap.
This quote emphasizes that our fears, particularly the fear of how others perceive us, can inhibit our willingness to serve and love others. It encourages us to overcome these fears by reaching out to others with genuine love and forgiveness, suggesting that doing so will create a deeper connection with both the people we serve and our own spiritual understanding of love.
In practice
In a motivational speech about overcoming personal barriers.
My point is to urge you to find ways to recognize and remember God’s kindness. It will build our testimonies. You may not keep a journal. You may not share whatever record you keep with those you love and serve. But you and they will be blessed as you remember what the Lord has done.
Increased spiritual strength is a gift from God which He can give when we push in His service to our limits. Through the power of the Atonement of Jesus Christ, our natures can be changed. Then our power to carry burdens can be increased more than enough to compensate for the increased service we will be asked to give.
Whether or not you choose to keep your covenant to always remember Him, He always remembers you.
What all of us long for in our hearts, at Christmastime and always, is to feel bound together in love with the sweet assurance that it can last forever.
We cannot control what others choose to do, and so we cannot force our children to heaven, but we can determine what we will do. And we can decide that we will do all we can to bring down the powers of heaven into that family we want so much to have forever.
It is serving God and others persistently with full heart and soul that turns testimony of truth into unbreakable spiritual strength.
But soon we shall die and all memory of those five will have left the earth, and we ourselves shall be loved for a while and forgotten. But the love will have been enough; all those impulses of love return to the love that made them. Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.
Be a force of love as often as you can and turn away negative thoughts whenever you feel them surface.
I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.
I used to look in the mirror and feel shame, I look in the mirror now and I absolutely love myself.
The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
We love because it's the only true adventure.
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