31 May 2009
Sharon’s Sunday Blog
Posted by Terrie Soberg under: Guest Blogger .
Making Weak Things Become Strong
The last couple of months I have become particularly focused on learning more about the Constitution, the principles and history of liberty, and the proper role of government. 
As our nation continuous on this perilous path to collectivism, I want to be able to knowledgeably and articulately help others understand what is happening so they will be more aware of what is happening and want to do something about it. Although I have a passion to learn, one of my personal challenges has been organizing the things I study in my own mind and then remembering them so I can confidently express them to others.
I recently read this quote by Wilford Woodruff about learning. I will share this with my children, but it also encouraged me. (emphasis added).
“There is one thing I wish particularly to impress upon your minds, and that is, the importance of improving your time while young in treasuring up knowledge and learning those things which will be useful to you in after life. I know from experience, and so do most parents, that the child cannot appreciate the worth of true intelligence, the importance of improving their time in storing up useful knowledge while they are young, as they will when they come to act upon the stage of life, become fathers and mothers, and feel the full force of the responsibilities of training up children. Do not be discouraged because you cannot learn all at once; learn one thing at a time, learn it well, and treasure it up, then learn another truth and treasure that up, and in a few years you will have a great store of useful knowledge which will not only be a great blessing to yourselves and your children, but to your fellow men.” (G. Homer Durham, Discourses of Wilford Woodruff, 269. )
Because things are happening so fast in our country at this time, I feel a need to accelerate my personal learning process. I trust that my efforts in the past will begin to bear fruit and that the things I have studied throughout my life will surface. I expect now that as I continue to learn, I will come to a greater understanding more quickly.
Since the words we say are powerful and can help create reality, instead of telling myself that I learn slowly and have difficulty remembering facts and details, I am saying that I can learn and remember things better than ever before, AND that I can express myself with confidence and conviction, for I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me! (Philipians 4:13)
I believe the words of the Lord as recorded in Ether. “If men will come unto me I will show unto them their weakness, I give unto men (an awareness of their) weakness that they may be humble; and my grace is sufficient for all men that humble themselves before me; for if they humble themselves before me and have faith in me, then will I make weak things become strong unto them.” (Ether 12:27)
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