Learned from Worship

The Muppet's make me happy! Today I learned to be a neighbor, to share my cookies, and to sing with the choir.

Now hum these tunes through the Christmas Holiday:

Pocket Full of Miracles

Pee-racticality dee-oesn't interest me.
Love's the life that I lead.
I've got a pocketful of miracles.
And with a pocketful of miracles,
One little miracle a day is all I need.

I hear sleigh bells ringing, smack, in the middle of May.
I go around like there's snow around.
I feel so good; it's Christmas ev'ery day.

Some Children See Him

Some children see Him lily white,
The baby Jesus born this night.
Some children see Him lily white,
With tresses soft and fair.

O lay aside each earthly thing
And with thy heart as offering,
Come worship now the infant King.
'Tis love that's born tonight!

The Candy Man

Who can take tomorrow
(Who can take tomorrow)
And dip it in a dream
(Dip it in a dream)
Separate the sorrow
And collect up all the cream
The candy man
(The candy man)
Oh the candy man can
(The candy man can)
The candy man can cause he
Mixes it with love and
Makes the world
Taste good

The candy man can cause he
Mixes it with love and
Makes the world
Taste good

Recording Scriptures

These two scriptures came up this week from a talk and the other from a letter. Take a minute one night, and record the scriptures that were presented to you during a four to five day period. Note them in a journal. Sometimes I find them from my daily scripture study pattern: teachings of the prophet manual weekly chapter reading, Sunday school student study guide weekly assignment, and my daily, personal Book of Mormon reading.

2 Timothy 1:7, “For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.”

28 If thou art merry, praise the Lord with singing, with music, with dancing, and with a prayer of praise and thanksgiving. 

29 If thou art sorrowful, call on the Lord thy God with supplication, that your souls may be joyful. (Doctrine and Covenants136:28-29)

Surprises

Certainly some pleasant surprises in life can catch you off guard. But when they happen they are wonderful encounters. The laughter, joy, happiness and smiles are well worth it.  Children are full of them, and adults should every once in a while consider doing them more often. It produces spontaneous thought, and quick, active, positive interaction.

Surprises can be found in reading stories.  Little children love to hear them when found in a good picture book being read. Consider reading one this holiday season.

When days are not going well scripture stories work well. And if you need a little humility read and ponder a story. Like this one, the Nativity, Luke 2:8–16.

"Can any soul read this and not be touched with the spirit of humility and be impressed with the simple truth of the story?" (Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Joseph Fielding Smith, Chapter 25: The Birth of Jesus Christ: “Good Tidings of Great Joy”)

Posts

Since I have written a number of posts in this blog, it is a great exercise to review past posts. Great insight can be gleaned by doing it.  This was written a few days ago, and I want to add a scripture to it.

"I really liked how in Ezekiel's discussion of the temple, as water depths and lengths-like with life's issues, our measuring tape starts over each time we return from the temple with added personal depth perception." (ScriptureMan, Post) For who do we find therein:

35 It was round about eighteen thousand measures: and the name of the city from that day shall be, The Lord is there. (Old Testament, Ezekiel 48)

3 D's

I swam a length in the pool with the butterfly stroke without a breathe. I felt good power with my arms coming over my shoulder, and with consistency. It feels good to swim.  It is a good workout and I highly recommend it.  Much of my blog has the swimming themes such as Diving for a topic to study, experiencing the scripture in a Rip Dive, and experiencing a Deep-Dive by exploring in more detail a chosen topic.

I believe I have found a new topic.  I will reveal the topic, appropriate for the season, in a few days.

Three Stories to Tell

A child should hear these three stories many times from a parent:

The Creation and the Fall
The First Vision
The Birth of Christ-share the gift, embrace the gift

Scripture to Memorize

3 Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths; (Book of Mormon, 2 Nephi 12: