"Please, oh please, can I go to chruch?"

Suzanne asked me this morning when she woke-up and her dad was gone to church. She's been pretty sick the last month--but running a low-grade fever the last week--off and on.

I felt the same way this morning, "Please, oh please, can I go to church?" Ryan could stay home with Suzanne while I go, but Eric's coughing too and needs to stay inside. Since he is a boy that ALWAYS wants to eat. . .well, he gets to go where I go.

President Harold B. Lee said, "Testimony isn't something that you have today and you are going to have always. A testimony is fragile. It is as hard to hold as a moonbeam. It must be recaptured every day of your life."

This is when I ask myself, "Is it worth the work to recapture daily?"

I believe it is because it provides a fullness in my life that is unlike any other experience. My relationship with my Lord consumes me with love and peace that no earthly or mortal can. I testify the gospel of Jesus Christ is the one true gospel.

There is a great deal of truth in the world, but the distinct clarity that comes from living worth of the Holy Ghost cannot be replicated in any other form...here again, it lends to the truthfulness of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ. Such clarity begs to demanded work of daily recapturing a testimony.

This life is a great test of faith and should be recognized as such. I am often hard on myself because I cannot understand or see how things will work out, or I think my faith is much weaker than it should be. It is in the quite moments that I remember these are the moments of growth to draw me closer to Jesus and more reliant on his nature.

While I was living in Salt Lake City in 1999, I attended a college ward. During one testimony meeting, a young woman who had struggled and doubted stood to bear her testimony. She stated unequivocally, "How can I deny something I know to be absolutely true?"

On this Sabbath day, I add my testimony to her testimony. It is true. It is the reality.