What Have I Done for Someone Today

I admit, when I first read this talk I felt a little guilty with some of my actions. I think I have been so focused on me and my issues that I have completely forgotten how important it is to be aware of others around me. I think I've been a bit selfish in my thinking. I couldn't have read this talk at a better time.

I think the part of this talk that hit me the most was this part. President Thomas S. Monson nailed me to a tee with this, "I am confident it is the intention of each member of the church to serve and to help those in need. At baptism we covenanted to "bear one another's burdens, that they may be light." How many times has your heart been touched as you have witnessed the need of another? How often have you intended to be the one to help? And yet how often has day-to-day living interfered and you've left it for others to help, feeling that "oh, surely someone will take care of that need." We become so caught up in the busyness of our lives. Were we to step back, however, and take a good look at what we're doing, we may find that we have immersed ourselves in the "thick of thin things." In other words, too often we spend most of our time taking care of the things which do not really matter much at all in the grand scheme of things, neglecting those more important causes."

I am that person who always has good intentions of serving others, but in the end never seem to get around to it because I get so wrapped up in everything I have to get done. I also get so wrapped up in my own feelings of, why isn't anyone helping me, that I don't even notice if there are others around me suffering. I don't want to be selfish like that anymore. I want my kids to see me serving others and I want them to have the desire to do that as well.

When President Monson was concluding an interview, the reporter asked him what the idea gift that members worldwide could give to him, he responded, "Find someone who is having a hard time or is ill or lonely, and do something for him or her."
I want to remember this challenge from our prophet and try to do this almost everyday.