A Sunday Drive

After church last Sunday Calvin decided he wanted to take a drive. I like sight-seeing (at first I typed site-seeing, like the Internet??) so we took off. We drove about 20 minutes when he stopped and said, "I bet you will never see anything like this again." He pointed to some distant trees and I thought there were deer nestled in them. But when I got the binoculars out, they were owls, large, really large owls. I guess that is just where they spend the day before they get out and fly around. The owl is on the left side, about half way down. it is really big. I have heard owls at night - they sound so peaceful, well, unless you are a mouse.

Studying my Sunday School lesson

I was studying my lesson yesterday, it is on gaining a testimony of Christ. I think of all the lessons we have had all year, this one is the most important. Unless we come to know Christ we are wasting our time on Earth. And unless we strive to be like him, everything else is vanity. I think pride is the most dangerous thing there is. It keeps us from doing the things we need to do and from becoming who we need to become. It is so easy to fake it, to pretend we aren't who we really are. It is in times of stress that we see our worst selves. Then we can humble ourselves, if we will, and really come unto Christ. When we criticize and fault find, even when they really deserve it, then we are not being like Christ. Our Bishop spoke Sunday and quoted his father who said, "If you get offended when people didn't mean to offend you, you are a fool. If you get offended when they did mean to offend you, you are a bigger fool. Interesting.