It is easy to love humanity. It is hard to love a particular person, on a particular day, when they need something you would rather not give. Dostoevsky named this gap with startling honesty — and Elder Zossima called it the only love worth having. Come sit a while and consider the difference between love in dreams and love in action.
Spencer W. Kimball discovered something profound in the middle of his own struggles with illness and responsibility: the deepest answers to prayer rarely come as we expect them. Instead of changing our circumstances, God often changes us into instruments of blessing for others. Come sit a while and discover how shifting from asking to giving can transform your entire prayer life.
In September 1940, as bombs fell on London and the world he had labored to build crumbled around him, an eighty-three-year-old soldier sat down in Kenya to write one last letter. He did not write about fear or the war. He wrote about happiness — and where it is actually found. Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the Scout movement, left us words that still ring true: the most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others. Come sit a while with his gentle wisdom.