It used to discourage me that girls younger than I were married, but now, having learned what I’ve learned from my education and especially from my mission, I am thrilled with the direction, opportunities, and privileges the Lord has given me to grow. In closing, may I share with you a direct quote from my baby sister who graduated from BYU in 1980, returned from a mission in May of 1982, and is still single: If you have cared enough to prepare, your light will attract many, both men and women who will seek and cherish your companionship. He may have been saying, “I already know these things, but did you hear that you too (if you keep company with him) have the potential to glorify his name?”īe all that you can be! If you have oil in your lamps, you will find how often you get a chance to light them. “Jesus answered and said, This voice came not because of me, but for your sakes” ( John 12:30). Only a few heard the words as they were, and they knew God had spoken them! Some of the people there didn’t hear anything but a noise (they thought it thundered) others only heard words, and they thought an angel had spoken to him. Then came there a voice saying, I have both glorified it and will glorify it again” ( John 12:28). That’s because too many of us learn only through our heads and not through our hearts!Ī common man or woman will hear only the commonplace, but a man or a women connected to the powers of heaven will learn to be an inheritor of those powers.Īs Christ was moving toward his crucifixion, he said, “Father, glorify thy name. But sometimes we cannot recognize the real purpose and significance of the moment which is ours to experience. All of the tools and texts are here, right at your hand. The only limitations you have are those you set on yourselves. ![]() ![]() If it didn’t seem unbecoming of the president’s wife in full view of the television audience, I would like to just shout at you to see in yourself what I see in you. Being in control of my life makes me answer that question with a strong “Yes!” I now know that the feeling of being somebody comes from hard work and self-growth. I used to think being somebody meant public recognition of one’s efforts. Marilyn Funt, who wrote the book Are You Anybody? did so in response to people’s asking in the Hollywood swirl if she “was anybody.” In answer she said: No time for a Harlequin Romance or a long lower lip with that kind of view. Surely that ought to be our own exciting challenge toward becoming-of growing, seeing, feeling, touching, smelling, hearing, believing. Without being smug, we’ve known that since the dawn of the Restoration. extent, we are much less than what we are” (R.D. Laing said, “What we think is less than what we know: What we know is less than what we love: What we love is so much less than what there is, and to this. In his book, The Politics of Experience, R. I recently read this: “Only a small portion of what we are and there is enormous potential in the human being” (Leo Buscaglia, Love , p. It’s interesting to me that the rest of the world does eventually discover what was given long ago in the scriptures. You have so much personal potential, and this is the greatest place in the entire world to develop it. Be excited about your chance to grow and develop and become. That just stretches the heck out of your lower jaw. If you are disappointed in the romance-or lack of it-in your life, I ask you to do exactly what this student did-keep a sense of humor, retain your marriage goal for the important commandment it is, and put your energies into becoming! Don’t spend your time walking on your lower lip about what is not. As the chill of winter sets in, you may be feeling about as special as frozen custard. ![]() I expect there are many who would like to be dating and who would like to have a guaranteed offer of marriage before graduation. Obviously this letter was written in fun, but I do worry that some of you-especially the women on campus-are struggling with your social life more than you would like. Well, you’ve got just under three weeks to come up with somebody or I want my tuition back. I thought it was an assumed part of the BYU contract that I would be married before graduation. My dates have been so late that most of them never showed up. Things could go wrong, you know, even at this late date.Īnd that brings my one grievance with you. My parents are relieved, my professors are surprised, and I am holding my breath. I am completing my undergraduate experience at BYU this month and will be graduating in our upcoming commencement service. Just before commencement exercises last spring, my husband received a letter from a student which read something like this:
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