Ears To Hear: Choices

Today’s Talk: Choices

There have been a few times in my life that I have lost sleep over a particular situation. It was in the midst of one of these sleepless nights that I found comfort in the truths of the Gospel. In the seemingly endless darkness, this glimmer of light came into my mind. AGENCY.  The concept and gift of agency.  I thought to myself there in the night, of how remarkable it is that out of ALL the things we could have talked over and debated and chosen sides for— it was the gift of agency that caused a division in the premortal life.

I have been thinking recently about choices. It has been said that the door of history turns on small hinges, and so do people’s lives. The choices we make determine our destiny.

When we left our premortal existence and entered mortality, we brought with us the gift of agency. Our goal is to obtain celestial glory, and the choices we make will, in large part, determine whether or not we reach our goal.

I realized then and there that I had made the right choice at the very beginning of this journey on earth. And that has since given me the courage to make other hard, but right, choices. That night when my soul was deeply unsettled, Christ showed me the way. Christ had countless troubling days and nights. He is who I strive to pattern my life after

May we maintain the courage to defy the consensus. May we ever choose the harder right instead of the easier wrong.

As we contemplate the decisions we make in our lives each day—whether to make this choice or that choice—if we choose Christ, we will have made the correct choice.

That night and every day since, I have thought about how I get to choose. I have agency. There is always a choice. I can’t say it better than our dear Prophet, Thomas S. Monson.  No matter how dark the night or hopeless the situation may seem, we can repent and continue on the path that assuredly leads to our Savior and Celestial Home.

 

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