ICS - Counsel Together

Must be humble

"Revelation is scattered about" - Elder Packer

All agreeing on a decision has enabling power for the decision to go forward and succeed

Presiding Bishopric Office Devotionals

GSD devotional 5/5/2020 (7 1/2 weeks into isolation) with Bishop Causse:

quoted https://www.irishcentral.com/culture/irish-american-teachers-poem-covid19-outbreak

The poem, "And the people stayed home" reads:

And the people stayed home. And read books, and listened, and rested, and exercised, and made art, and played games, and learned new ways of being, and were still. And listened more deeply. Some meditated, some prayed, some danced. Some met their shadows. And the people began to think differently.

And the people healed. And, in the absence of people living in ignorant, dangerous, mindless, and heartless ways, the earth began to heal.

And when the danger passed, and the people joined together again, they grieved their losses, and made new choices, and dreamed new images, and created new ways to live and heal the earth fully, as they had been healed.

Move forward with faith. We must change after pandemic. "Look to the future with enthusiasm", Pres Nelson.

How must I change?

Seek personal revelation

D&C 88:73 "Behold I will hasten my work". We are preparing for Second Coming

3 Nephi 21 "shall go out from all nations", not in flight or haste...I will go before you
.Adapt to pace of the Lord

ICS devotional 5/6/2020

There are those that mummer in scriptures during hardships....and now

What does Lord want me to learn from COVID 19?

How can Lord accelerate His work through this?

What should I do differently in the future?

Focus on what matters most.

I don t think I have ever wanted happiness more than I do for you