As many of you know, I have started walking, jogging, running every morning. I keep track of my time and miles with my iPod. Today I decided to listen to a talk by John Bytheway entitled "Be Thou An Example of the Believers." I decided I would walk until he was done talking, so I took a different course than I usually do in order to make time for the 55 minute talk. It is a really good talk and I recommend it to everyone and I will let you borrow it if you want. (I have it on CD, too.)
Anyways... Here is what stood out to me...
He talks specifically about this scripture and goes into some deeper meanings...
Here is the scripture...
1st Timothy 4:12... "Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity."
When talking about the phrase "Let no man despise thy youth", he brings up a primary song that most of us should know, "Give", said the Little Stream"... He refers to a line in the first verse that says...
"I'm small, I know, but wherever I go the grass grows greener still."
He goes on to say that the stream shows a little humility by saying that it is small. (I also thought that maybe the stream may have been feeling a little inadequate. As many of us do from time to time.)
And then comes the "but".
And it's a really big "BUT" in my opinion... "Wherever I go the grass grows greener still."
So... The stream knows it is small, but it also knows that it can have a huge impact on the world that is travels through.
Now there was a lot more to the talk, but this really stuck with me the whole walk and I wanted to add my perspective...
Each of us (young, old, in-between) has things that we struggle with... that help us to be humble. Each of us KNOWS that we have these inadequacies within us that maybe no one else knows about. We are all like the Little Stream in one way or another. We are all "small" and we all "know"...
And then comes the "but"... That wonderfully, AWESOME "but"...
Wherever WE go "the grass grows greener still"... We have all been given something special from our Heavenly Father... A little piece of AWESOME... And we can take that AWESOME and use it to overcome our inadequacies for the betterment of the world around us. There is great potential in all of us. No matter how small or insignificant we may feel. Remember what Alma taught his son, Helaman... "By small and simple things are great things brought to pass." (Alma 37: 6)
So... Find and embrace your AWESOME (whatever it is) so that wherever you go "the grass grows greener still."
Have an AWESOME day...
