Stake Presidency Message

For more than 20 years, my mother coordinated a quarterly newsletter involving my parents and their 6 children, who, for much of the time, were spread across the country. The first page of the newsletter usually contained a section titled, “Musings from Mom.” It was a collection of sayings regarding living a fulfilling life and some cartoons. I share some:

“He who has begun is half done. Dare to be wise; begin!” – Horace (65-8 BC)

“Take time to pray – it helps to bring God near and washes the dust of earth from your eyes.

Take time for friends – it is the source of happiness.

Take time for work --- it is the price of success.

Take time to think – it is the source of power.

Take time to read – it is the foundation of knowledge.

Take time to laugh – it is the singing that helps with life’s loads.

Take time to dream – it is the secret of youth.

Take time to worship – it is the highway to reverence.”

“Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.” – Victor Hugo

“A harvest of peace is produced from a seed of contentment.”

“It is an amazing adventure to be born upon this wandering island in the sky and it is an adventure to leave it when death calls. To go to school, to make friends, to marry, to rear children, to face through life the swift changes of circumstances that no man can certainly predict an hour ahead, these are all adventures. Each new day is a hitherto unvisited country, which we enter, like Abraham leaving Ur for a strange land not knowing whither he went, and every New Year we begin a tour of exploration into a twelve month where not man’s foot has ever walked before. If we all love tales of pioneers, it is because from the time we are weaned, to the time we die, life is pioneering.” Obert C. Tanner

“Our grand business in life is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.” Thomas Carlyle

“Friends who take time to care are really angels unaware.”

“If you can find humor in anything, you can survive it.” JoAnn Larsen

“Experience is what you get when you were expecting something else.” 

And from me, I share what I think is the greatest short summary of the gospel ever written, “Jesus wants me for a sunbeam, to shine for Him each day.: In every way try to please Him, at home, at school, at play. Jesus wants me to be loving and kind to all I see, showing how pleasant and happy His little one can be.” (Nellie Talbot)

Lane Wallace

1st Counselor, Columbus Ohio Stake Presidency