Last updated on June 2nd, 2024 at 09:55 pm
May 26, 2024
Here is the best thing I heard (What?), saw (Eye.), and read (Read.) this week, as well as the best idea (💡) I developed.
What?
followHim Podcast – Mosiah 18-24 – Dr. Melissa Inouye:
- [Dr. Melissa Inouye] “When I’ve had big surgeries, my family and members of the ward have always come and helped me. I think it’s also just really important… I mean, sometimes you can’t take away pain from someone. You just can’t do it. What I think the next best thing is just to be a witness, to just sit with them and say, ‘This is really hard.’ And then it gives the person who’s in pain or who’s going through a hard time just that recognition. You’re not making this up. This is a real challenge, and you’re tackling it. So I think that’s really helpful.
“People who have cancer often talk about how their friends vanish. That hasn’t happened to me. But I think it’s because people just don’t know what to say any more. They feel like it’ll be awkward, they don’t know what to say, they don’t know how to help, and so they don’t come. But for me, it’s really powerful to have people come and just say, ‘This is really hard for you.’ And you say, ‘It’s really hard.’ And they say, ‘It looks like it kind of sucks.’ And you’re like, ‘Yes, it sucks.’ And it’s just nice to have someone there with you that way. I mean, I think that’s why Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane asked the Apostles to come to witness. It was hard for them, but I think that’s what he wanted. He didn’t want to be alone during that time.” - Dr. Melissa Inouye passed away just a few weeks after this recording. I found her testimony and her commitment to Jesus Christ and His Church to be inspiring!
Eye.
Create A Summer With Jesus, Salt&Hart (Instagram – saltandhart)
- “Consider this: children spend 35 hours a week at school, but only around 2 hours a week at church.
“This stark contrast highlights the importance of making our homes a place of spiritual learning and growth.
“As parents, we have the sacred responsibility to teach our children the gospel of Jesus Christ and to help them develop a strong, personal relationship with their Savior.
“Our homes should be sanctuaries of faith where the Spirit is felt, and eternal principles are taught.”
Read.
‘The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich (Expanded and Updated)‘ by Timothy Ferriss
- “Two years ago, I was forwarded the following poem—originally written by child psychologist David L. Weatherford—by a close friend. He quit his own deferred-life plan after reading it, and I hope you will do the same. Here it is.
‘Slow Dance
Have you ever watched kids
On a merry-go-round?
Or listened to the rain
Slapping the ground?
Ever followed a butterfly’s erratic flight?
Or gazed at the sun into the fading night?
You better slow down
Don’t dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won’t last.
Do you run through each day
On the fly?
When you ask: How are you?
Do you hear the reply?
When the day is done,
Do you lie in your bed
With the next hundred chores
Running through your head?
You’d better slow down.
Don’t dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won’t last.
Ever told your child,
We’ll do it tomorrow?
And in your haste,
Not see his sorrow?
Ever lost touch,
Let a good friendship die
Cause you never had time
To call and say, ‘Hi’?
You’d better slow down
Don’t dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won’t last.
When you run so fast to get somewhere
You miss half the fun of getting there.
When you worry and hurry through the day,
It is like an unopened gift thrown away.
Life is not a race.
Do take it slower.
Hear the music
Before the song is over.'”
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I should determine how to become a contributor for Church blogs and Liahona articles.