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Take My Yoke
Upon You
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My Favorite Valentine
By Jim Brown
Collards is green
my dog's name is Blue
and I'm so lucky to have
a sweet thang like you.
You move like the bass,
which excite me in May.
You ain't got no scales
but I luv you anyway.
You have som'a yore teeth,
for which I am proud;
I hold my head high
when we're in a crowd.
Like a good roll of duct tape
yo're there fer yore man,
to patch up life's troubles
and fix what you can.
Yo're as cute as a junebug
a-buzzin' overhead.
You ain't mean like those far ants
I found in my bed.
Cut from the best cloth
like a plaid flannel shirt,
you spark up my life
more than a fresh load of dirt.
Some men git roses
on that special day
from the cooler at Kroger.
"That's impressive," I say.
Some men buy fine diamonds
from a flea market booth.
"Diamonds are forever,“
they explain, suave and couth.
But for this man, honey, these jest won't do.
Cause yo're too special, you sweet thang you.
I got you a gift, without taste nor odor,
more useful than diamonds...
IT'S A NEW TROLLIN' MOTOR!!
Explain this to me, please….
Exodus
And afterward Moses and Aaron went in, and told Pharaoh,
Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Let my people go, that
they may hold a feast unto me in the wilderness.
And Pharaoh said, Who is the LORD, that I should obey his
voice to let Israel go?
And they said, The God of the Hebrews hath met with us: let
us go, we pray thee, three days' journey into the desert, and
sacrifice unto the LORD our God; lest he fall upon us with
pestilence, or with the sword.
And the king of Egypt said unto them, Wherefore do ye, Moses and Aaron, to let the people
rest from their works? get you unto your burdens.
And Pharaoh said, Behold, the people of the land now are many, and ye make them rest from
their burdens.
And Pharaoh commanded the same day the taskmasters of the people, and their officers,
saying,
Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore: let them go and gather
straw for themselves.
Let there more work be laid upon the men, that they may labour therein; and let them not
regard vain words.
Savior’s invitation…
Come unto me, all ye that
labour and are heavy laden,
and I will give you rest.
Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I
am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find
rest unto your souls.
For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light."
(Matt. 11:28-30.)
Brigham Young
They who try to serve God and still cling
to the spirit of the world, have got on two
yokes--the yoke of Jesus and the yoke of
the devil, and they will have plenty to do.
They will have a warfare inside and outside, and the
labor will be very galling, for they are directly in
opposition one to the other.
Cast off the yoke of the enemy, and put on the yoke of
Christ, and you will say that his yoke is easy and his
burden is light. This I know by experience.
[JD 16:123]
Question
What is the
Yoke of
Jesus?
Brigham Young
…the person that wears the yoke of
Jesus and bears his burden [is the
one who] loves the cause of truth
and righteousness more than all
else.
The person that wears the yoke of Jesus…has
communication with the heavens, finds his yoke
easy and his burden light; he is master of it. …
… all that men can imagine and a million times more,
God has in store for us. If we are faithful, all is ours.
If we trample sin and iniquity under our feet, then we
are the masters, which makes the yoke easy and
the burden light.
Pathway to Exaltation
New Converts (and Teenagers)
Conversion
Or
Taking on “His Yoke”
Elder Neal A.
Maxwell
Happily, the commandment ‘Take my yoke
upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek
and lowly in heart’ (Matt. 11:29) is a principle
which carries an accompanying and
compensating promise from Jesus: ‘and ye
shall find rest unto your souls.’
This is a very special form of rest resulting from the shedding
of certain needless burdens: fatiguing insincerity,
exhausting hypocrisy, and the strength-sapping quest for
recognition, praise, and power.
Those of us who fall short, in one way or another, often do so
because we carry such unnecessary and heavy baggage. Being
overloaded, we sometimes stumble, and then we feel sorry for
ourselves.”
(The Neal A. Maxwell Quote Book, 34-35.)
Elder Gene R. Cook
Clearly,
we must teach
our children to
Sacred
Pattern
Here?
keep the commandments. If we have
taught them to turn their hearts to the
LordFirst,
and to feel
thesee…
promptings of the Spirit, teaching
1we
them to keep the commandments of the Lord will be
relatively simple.
Second,
we parents
feel…
Also, 2as children
watch their
living the
commandments, they will see, feel, and know the
importance of so doing. They will experience the
3- that
Third,
wekeeping
know…
blessings
come from
the commandments
in a faithful family and thus will not have to be
convinced or go through a period of rebelliousness.
4-need
Fourth,
we understand…
Still, they do
to be taught.
Last Week’s Story
The Christopher Williams family was struck late Friday, in
Salt Lake, when a Jeep Cherokee traveling south on 2000
East slammed into the family's northbound Volkswagen
Jetta beneath the Interstate 80 overpass.
The SUV flipped, and the driver, who suffered minor
scrapes and bruises, fled on foot.
The sedan suffered heavy passenger-side damage, killing
the pregnant mother, Michelle Williams, 41, and two of her
children: Ben, 11, and Anna, 9. The surviving father and 6year-old boy, Sam, were transported in extremely critical
condition to Salt Lake City hospitals. The couple's other
son, Michael, 14, was not in the car.
Family spokesman James Wood said the father – an LDS bishop in the Crystal Heights 2nd
Ward - has improved considerably since the crash. His son, however, remains in the
intensive care unit at Primary Children's Medical Center with bleeding and swelling of the
brain, a broken collar bone and cracked ribs.
From his hospital bed, Christopher Williams asked for a prayer - not for himself, but for the
teenage driver who police say smashed into his family sedan, killing his wife and two of his
children.
At Williams' request, the 17-year-old's name was added to the prayer roll of an LDS temple,
hoping to give some comfort to a teen now jailed on suspicion of automobile homicide.
"I don't know of anyone who believes in the redemption more than Chris Williams," said
lifelong friend…
Now, The Rest of the Story
To those who wonder how Chris Williams was so quick to forgive the teenager who
crashed into his car Friday, killing his wife and two children, consider this:
When Williams was 16, he accidentally struck and killed a 4-year-old boy in the
Avenues.
On July 18, 1981, when he was going to his job as an orderly at LDS Hospital, two
young boys ran from between parked cars and onto 8th Avenue…
Williams' car struck both boys, who were brothers. James B. Forster, 4, died three
days later at Primary Children's Medical Center. His 3-year-old brother survived.
Police said Williams was traveling about 20 mph.
"He had absolutely no chance to react," said Williams' father, Paul Williams, in an
interview on Monday.
As a result of that accident, said Paul Winterton, a longtime friend, Williams "knows
exactly what this young man [in Friday's accident] is going through."
Following the 1981 accident, "People showered [Williams] with forgiveness and
kindness," said Winterton.