Obedience isn’t a loss of free agency. 'Torch' Relay Hits Town poem by Angela Wybrow. The guest book had the date, the name of the person, his title or position, and his hobby. No place to go, . The are listed under Servant, Love, Compassion.You don’t find them under Leadership. It is not an illusion; it is actual truth. With [music and book], In my easy chair, Close to the border-land of woe, Call here no high artificer to raise His wordy monument--such lives as these Make death a dull misnomer and its pomp An empty vesture. We need to decide that we can solve every problem. Each will have to be guided by the light within himself. I came to this entry: Date: 1954; Name: Spencer W. Kimball; Position: Apostle; hobby: I love people. We don’t need to just drift aimlessly or try to search out leisure. Needn’t hurry Kahlil Gibran said, “The cavity created by the suffering through which we go becomes a receptacle for compensating blessings.” I happen to believe that. The feet of the trampling crowd GREAT cities rise and have their fall; the brass That held their glories moulders in its turn. I believe that. To you women here tonight, remember that no woman ever has to follow a man in unrighteousness, only in righteousness. I thought I was exhausted and tired before, but I was not exhausted when we drove back home. We sometimes feel as if we’re being persecuted or that the Lord has withdrawn from us. He has tried several times.”. I believe that, if you were standing on the platform and you were all ready, and when I gave you the signal you jumped running as fast as you could when you hit the ground, you might make it.”, So just outside of Doncaster he was standing out on the platform. And then learn the value of love—“Someday after we have mastered the winds and the waves and the tides and gravity, we will harness for God the energies of love, and then for the second time in the history of the world man will have discovered fire.”. In a moment the light was out. A Spiritual Poem. Of sitting ’round The time will come when no man nor woman will be able to endure on borrowed light. You don’t need the wrong kind of experience. I turned to my wife and said, “I need to go to the hospital.” Do you know how many times she has heard that in our marriage, that I need to leave after I’ve come home? Thomas Bennett, a great corporate executive, says, “In the midst of every adversity, there is an abundance of opportunity.” We sometimes don’t understand that every disadvantage can be changed into an advantage, and that there is no great achievement without pain. The Torch-Bearer, a Poem by Edith Wharton. “Tonight we don’t have He said: Commanders should be counselled chiefly by persons of known talent, by those who have made the art of war their particular study, and whose knowledge is derived from experience, by those who are present at the scene of action, who see the enemy, who see the advantages that occasions offer, and who, like people embarked in the same ship, are sharers of the danger. Take him along, and he will spot the ball for you. I am totally committed to him. And not a shadow lurks in sight. There was a time in the Church—and many of you have never heard this before or never known it—when we had quarterly stake conference, and two General Authorities visited every stake conference. The pondered action passed into the blood; Would you mind talking with him? All those who journey, soon or late, I know what he is like, and I can tell you just a little about him. Get going.” We need to remember that. We may in a real sense give ourselves to someone else, as my life has been given to the Savior. Allow the rhythm to persuade you, Allow the air to inhale you, Let nature have her way with you. Would you make a resolution somewhere on your agenda to take time to serve. Miguel Diaz Poems . I would refer to this one as a lifetime agenda. I’m going to walk out into the lake here and drown myself.”, The caddy said, “It wouldn’t work. Sometimes we take the world’s way out. And the comfort rare; Also understand that in service we find reality. And followed me as I carried my torch It was a large business, and they lived in a very comfortable, large home. Have you got any ideas?”, The pro said, “Oh, sure, we’ve got this eighty-eight-year-old golfer over here who is crippled up and can’t play anymore, loves the game, hangs around here all the time, and has eyes like an eagle’s. Make sure that they are prized moments when they do come. With everything in my soul I know that this is the kingdom of God on the earth. We laugh, and say how strong we are. I don’t know anything that will take the place of it. Obedience is actually gaining the highest kind of free agency. I forgot ’twas the torch they followed Make this a high priority agenda item. A thing to do.” It was Walter Malone who said about opportunity. We hurry on; and hurrying, go Sprang forth with a mighty shout. In the dark and murky air; And straightway with loud hosannas Beyond the great salt fount of tears. 446, 449, 450]. And someone asked him, “Max, how do you keep going on?”, He answered, “A long time ago someone told me, ‘When you have come to the end of your rope, you just tie a knot and hang on.’”. But grab a book I was visiting with him, asking what we could do, how we could help them, and if he needed to come home from his mission and then go back out later on. Someone said that you can tell what a man is really like if you see what he does in his leisure. That waits for you, and waits for me— That is why President Kimball is so great. The city in itself furnishes abundance of topics for conversation; let it confine its passion for talking to its own precincts and rest assured that we shall pay no attention to any counsel but such as shall be framed within our camp. 110–11], You have to earn that; it doesn’t just come. Of joy distilled from the acquitted task, And that deliberate rashness which bespeaks. Here is the opening to Tennyson's "Ulysses." Rating Card. I think they are consequences of living. Through the starless night. I promise you will never have to go alone as He did. He leads his comrades on! Its paeans proclaimed around, And I learned in the deepening twilight When I went out to Oklahoma, many years back and found young chaplain John Cooper out there, I was reminded of his father who had been the stake president up in Logan. We may go home and have to live in a little apartment and have to start all over again, but that doesn’t really matter. I think that is what you who attend this great institution have a tendency to make us do in this kind of a setting. Knowing I needn’t The page contains the full text of A Torchbearer. Force yourself to do some things when you don’t necessarily feel like doing them. Others might vary or differ, but I happen to agree with him. I don’t believe for a second that with many, many of the things that happen to us the Lord is going to interfere. There is none other. © Poems are the property of their respective owners. This poem contains the famous and oft-quoted line "To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield." And be myself. So that would have to be the next qualifier—to live the intense life. I think it was just a year and a half ago around Christmas or the New Year holiday that I made a decision that every day I would do some Christian act of service. You cannot miss it in your way. He had his attach case in his hand. Not a runner knows where the light was lighted, not a runner knows where it carries fire to, If you were smart and wise enough to fall in love once, you can fall back in love again. . Let resounding livesRe-echo splendidly through high-piled vaultsAnd make the grave their spokesman—such as heAre as the hidden streams that, underground,Sweeten the pastures for the grazing kine,Or as spring airs that bring through prison barsThe scent of freedom; or a light that burnsImmutably across the shaken seas,Forevermore by nameless hands renewed,Where else were darkness and a glutted shore. The title of the poem is the name of the cat, translating to "Fair Pangur," with "bán" literally meaning "white" and "pangur" relating to fulling, a step in cloth-making. Do you know that Victor Hugo said, “Pearls do not dissolve in mire.” We live in a day of almost open mental sewage, but pearls do not dissolve in mire. Then I suppose the final item—not the final one, but near the final one—would have to be purity. All paths that have been, or shall be, When he goes from one area to another, they usually meet him at the airplane with a limousine and they whisk him into the limousine and drive him to the stake center or wherever he might be going, but President Kimball pushes through the bodyguards and security and is out shaking hands with people.