BINDING UP THE BROKEN AMONG US.....

Because I play the organ at the temple, I was again invited to the annual Temple Workers Devotional for this year. 

These are wonderful meetings (I also used to go to the ones at the Denver Temple, too. ) There is a great deal of spiritual uplift, plus an opportunity to mingle socially with the other temple workers. 

And one of the Seventy General Authorities is usually invited to speak. Over the years I have heard some wonderful doctrinal insight. This time the visiting authority was Elder Brian K. Taylor, who had been reorganizing the Longmont Stake that weekend.  

When President Garrett, the temple president, spoke recently at this year's Fort Collins Temple Workers devotional, he said that every morning for 52 years Sister Garrett has gone to the drawer and taken out a bandage.  And then, holding that bandage, prayed to know whom she could "bind up" that day.

Isn't that a wonderful visual! 

We all have the commission from our baptismal covenant to bind up the broken among us.  So, I suggest Sister Garrett's example as something tangible to focus on as we pray about our purpose here as disciples of Christ in ministering to and blessing others all around us, no matter what our current Church assignment-- Primary President, like me, or whatever your calling is now, like you.

There is always a need for loving care....with--or without--the bandage.