This post is part of the General Conference Odyssey. This week covers the Priesthood Session of the October 2000 Conference.
Here's a quote to strike fear into your heart. It's by C.S. Lewis via Elder Jeffrey R. Holland (a winning combination if there ever was one):
Recently I read an author who said: “Our leisure, even our play, is a matter of serious concern. [That is because] there is no neutral ground in the universe: every square inch, every split second, is claimed by God and counterclaimed by Satan.” I believe that to be absolutely true, and no such claiming and counterclaiming anywhere is more crucial and conspicuous than that being waged for the minds and morals, the personal purity of the young.
It isn't meant to strike fear into our hearts, of course! More to stiffen our spines, I suppose. Just to realize how much each small thing matters, and what is at stake as we seek to follow Jesus Christ. So now, here is a quote to make you feel better, from President Thomas S. Monson:
Anxiously some may ask, “Is there a way to safety?” “Can someone guide me?” “Is there an escape from threatened destruction?” The answer, brethren, is a resounding “Yes!” Look to the lighthouse of the Lord. There is no fog so dense, no night so dark, no gale so strong, no mariner so lost but what its beacon light can rescue. It beckons through the storms of life. The lighthouse of the Lord sends forth signals readily recognized and never failing.
I'm looking for those revelatory signals right now—this moment. And I hope I'll find some bright ones this week when we hear the prophets speak at General Conference!
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