"HERE HIM"

Ro's contribution:     "HERE HIM"      lower right hand corner

On Easter Sunday my daughter Brittany and her family who live in Portland decided to write inspirational messages on their neighborhood walkway with colored chalk.  My grand boy Ro, who will be seven in August, decided to write only two words:  "Here Him".  

When Pa Lou found out about what Ro had chosen to write, Pa Lou told Ro he was very impressed and asked him why he chose that particular message.  Ro told Pa Lou, "You don't have to wear a coat and a tie to be a missionary.  Heavenly Father told us about His plan of happiness before we came to earth, and He asked us to tell other people about it when we got here.  We lived in heaven before we were born.  Then we were born here to choose the right, then we die so we can live with Heavenly Father again. You just have to say something.  You can also serve other people like Jesus did by doing good things for them."  

Wow!  Out of the mouth of babes....

President Russell M. Nelson of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has spent most of his two plus years as Prophet of the Church teaching about receiving personal inspiration to guide our lives and pleading with us to do everything we can to implement this important principle into our lives.

One of those ways is to identify the ways we "hear" the Lord as his spirit teaches, instructs, guides, counsels, warns, and leads us. 

President Nelson said it is important that we "hear" with our hearts as we study the scriptures and listen to our leaders.  We need to "unplug" and slow down so we can discern that still, small voice.  And, we need to remember the Lord works in those small and simple circumstances that are always an undercurrent in our lives.

In the days leading up to Easter, including during our recent April General Conference, President Nelson extended many invitations for all of us to Hear Him.   

Ro may have misspelled a word, but he nailed President Nelson's message.

"HEAR HIM"