Write Them Down

This has always stuck with me from President Eyring through the years. I can always find God’s hand in my life when I take the time to look.

“I’m not giving you these experiences for yourself. Write them down… I was supposed to record for my children to read, someday in the future, how I had seen the hand of God blessing our family… And so I wrote it down, so that my children could have the memory someday when they would need it… I wrote down a few lines every day for years. I never missed a day no matter how tired I was or how early I would have to start the next day.

Before I would write, I would ponder this question: “Have I seen the hand of God reaching out to touch us or our children or our family today?”

As I kept at it, something began to happen. As I would cast my mind over the day, I would see evidence of what God had done for one of us that I had not recognized in the busy moments of the day. As that happened, and it happened often, I realized that trying to remember had allowed God to show me what He had done. More than gratitude began to grow in my heart. Testimony grew. I became ever more certain that our Heavenly Father hears and answers prayers. I felt more gratitude for the softening and refining that come because of the Atonement of the Savior Jesus Christ. And I grew more confident that the Holy Ghost can bring all things to our remembrance—even things we did not notice or pay attention to when they happened.”

-Henry B. Eyring
O Remember, Remember Oct. 2007

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