To Receive, to Covenant, and to Minister | Liz Darger | 2021
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- čas přidán 18. 05. 2021
- As we strive to actively receive and personally minister, we can create a home-court advantage for everyone around us.
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I love Brigham Young University. Working here allows me to combine my love for higher education, my love for athletics, and my love for the gospel of Jesus Christ in meaningful ways. I believe wholeheartedly in the unique mission of BYU and feel it a great privilege to be a part of this campus community. While my remarks today were prayerfully prepared with the BYU campus community in mind, I believe the principles I will discuss are universal to all members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
A year into my service as a member of the Young Women general advisory council, a revision to the Young Women theme was introduced by Sister Bonnie H. Cordon, Young Women general president. It states:
I am a beloved daughter of heavenly parents, with a divine nature and eternal destiny.
As a disciple of Jesus Christ, I strive to become like Him. I seek and act upon personal revelation and minister to others in His holy name.
I will stand as a witness of God at all times and in all things and in all places.
As I strive to qualify for exaltation, I cherish the gift of repentance and seek to improve each day. With faith, I will strengthen my home and family, make and keep sacred covenants, and receive the ordinances and blessings of the holy temple.1
I love this new theme and the truths it exhibits about our identity and purpose. Today I would like to focus on three topics from the Young Women theme: receive, covenant, and minister.
To Receive Is an Active Role
Previous to my time in college athletics, I worked as a guidance counselor and high school basketball coach. I loved helping young people in their academic and athletic pursuits. One of the wonderful student-athletes I was privileged to counsel and coach was Morgan Bailey. When I first met Morgan, she was a shy ninth grader who was tall but not particularly athletic or skilled. As I started coaching her, it was clear that she had the potential to play the post position and the desire and work ethic to be great.
One of the first skills Morgan and I worked on developing was how to effectively post up and receive all sorts of post entry passes. It is natural to think of receiving as something passive and dismiss its importance. We may envision passively sticking out our arms and letting someone else do the active work of providing us something. But receiving is an action word. And it is a skill that can and should be developed.
Morgan practiced getting to the right spot with her knees bent, her elbows wide, and her hands up to create a big target. She learned how to hold off the defense and confidently call for the ball to communicate to her teammate that she was willing and ready to receive the pass. Morgan struggled to catch the ball at first, which was frustrating to her. But with repetition after repetition, she practiced meeting the pass and seeing the ball into her hands. With consistent and continual practice, Morgan developed the skill of receiving and became a trusted target in the post.
As disciples of Jesus Christ, we can become trusted receivers as we consistently and continually prepare and practice. Think of all we can receive as members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints! We can receive ordinances, including baptism and the gift of the Holy Ghost. We can receive a remission of our sins. We can receive spiritual gifts. We can receive blessings. We can receive a witness of truth. We can receive personal revelation. We can receive temple ordinances...
I needed these truths in specific situations in my life, church service and parental responsibilities
Thank you for your inspired comments
Well say, thank you very much for your strength, wisdom, and love for Our Savior Jesus Christ
True gospel principles to live by. A great talk
I really appreciate it! Thank you for sharing the light Heavenly Father has given you on the topic: Seeking to understand the value and identity of our fellow man after you have found your own worth and then acting upon that understanding. I think that sometimes we are some focused on ourselves that we may end up forgetting about our neighbours in the sense of acting like we are more important than others or that the value of a human soul may increase or decrease according to their choices , which would make room for mistreatment and unkindness ... That is so sad! I am glad you took time to talk about it
Such a wonderful message, thank you!
Awesome talk! Thank you!
Thank you!
Gracias
Amen
Love this
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I'd like the first part of this talk but I didn't like that it was about BYU sports and that she brought in those videos of her family cheering I would have liked to have heard just her thoughts on receiving and that that is an active thing that we choose to do and that sometimes like that is hard for certain people so I unfortunately sent this talk to help someone that I thought it would help before I realized that this is some kind of pep talk or something with sports analogies other than that I like the first part