Extraordinary Response
Often, our best moments are during times of trial. Indeed, what we remember most and what is most inspiring are not the scores of naysayers that exclaim “it’s dark, it’s dark” to describe the gloom that is all around us, but the humble, smug, and steady person that lights a candle so that others can see.
Neal Maxwell said this best:
Men’s and nations’ finest hour consist of those moments when extraordinary challenge is met by extraordinary response. Hence in those darkest hours, we must light our individual candles rather than vying with others to call attention to the enveloping darkness.
In a moment of Hansei and reflection, how are you behaving? Are you exclaiming that things are dark? Or, are you doing your part to lift others? As for me, I have much yet to learn. I’m thankful for the time allotted to me, that I might still learn and become better.
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RT @shmula: blog post: Extraordinary Response http://tinyurl.com/ygqvtvm
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Reminds me of one of Churchill’s most famous speeches:
“Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fall, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science.
Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth lasts for a thousand years, men will still say, “This was their finest hour!”
Something to reflect on: http://bit.ly/5kqkSD; stress affects us all, but its effects are in our control. How do you react?
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blog post: Extraordinary Response http://tinyurl.com/ygqvtvm
This comment was originally posted on Twitter