I am Enough - Moroni 6:4

I really don’t have time for this today, but my thoughts as I read Moroni 6 turned to the “30 Days of Service” our ward has completed the last 30 days, and my feelings on it.

As I read Moroni 6:4, I referenced in the margin Ephesians 2:19 “Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God;”  My margin reference said Helaman 6:3: “Nevertheless, the people of the church did have great joy because of the conversion of the Lamanites, yea, because of the church of God, which had been established among them. And they did fellowship one with another, and did rejoice one with another, and did have great joy.”  Ironically, the note I put on that verse was Moroni 6:4.  Key words in that verse are cleansed, remembered, nourished, watchful.  And what I felt last night at our gathering was rejoicing and joy and fellowship with some pretty wonderful people.

I hope I can articulate adequately my thoughts.  We had our gathering last night as the culmination of our 30 days of service.  I admit this is a little annoying to me because when I first heard it my thought was: “Oh!  Just one service a day?  Piece of cake!”   There are some days I feel like the only thing I did all day was serve.  That’s where I am in my life.  That’s what I’m supposed to be doing.  There are other days I get involved in my own business and I serve nobody.  Or at least that’s how I feel.  Clyde points out that is totally false.

These verses I’ve pointed out show what I felt last night at our meeting.  There was such a feeling of love present that it was tangible.  You could not have come away feeling anything but love.  People came together to share some of their feelings on the experience.  I would call it more of a “30 days of focus” for me, as that’s what I was doing.  I changed very little of what I was doing.  I did try to speak cheerfully to strangers more often. I would have loved this activity as a mom of younger children.  It would have been very impacting.  But what did I get out of it?  A continuation of the feelings I get all year long as I try ever so hard to not let a day go by without helping someone along the way.  Often, that is my mom and meeting her needs.  But that is still service, and I know the Lord is pleased.  I have grown as I’ve served her.  I have come to appreciate the sacrifices she has made through the years in my behalf.  She did the best she knew to raise a family, and that is all that is asked of any of us.  We do our best.  And to the Lord, (as we talked about in SS yesterday), it is enough.  I am enough.  As long as I’m yoked with the Savior, what I do is enough.  I am enough. 

One reason this is so is because as I do all I can do, I begin to feel the love the Savior talked about.  My heart enlarges with this love.  And it is love the Lord wants us to have for each other. Why?  Because then we want to help each other.  We reach out to each other more.  We try harder to lighten the load of others.  It becomes our quest to do so, and we become more like our Savior whose entire life was dedicated to helping us return to our Heavenly Father.  I know this is true, and although there will be days when maybe I don’t do as well as I’d like, I know I always do something.  And it is enough.