Improve The Shining Moment

Time flies on wings of lighting; we cannot call it back.
It come, the passes forward along its on ward track
And if we are not mindful the chance will fade away
For life is quick in passing.
Tis as a single day.

Our bodies, minds, families, friends, this beautiful earth. All these divine gifts we are given remind me of Christmas. And life is like the day after Christmas. Or the week. Then the month. Eventually it becomes the years. I'm sure we all do the same thing on Christmas morning. Rush down stairs to meet the glorious sight of Christmas morning. The presents shinning and wrapped under the decorated tree, and the glowing lights that surround it. As soon as we unwrap these gifts we've so anxiously been awaiting we are over joyed! We hug our gifts close to our chest and then proceed to pose in some ridiculous way for a family member pointing a camera at your face to capture the moment and embarass you later. The day after we receive this gift, its still something that can put a twinkle in our eye and love to tell people about every chance we get. The week after, your still trying to imagine what the heck you were doing before you got this! Months later, you find a place to put this gift because you don't really feel the need to carry it around anymore. Now years have passed sense you had that joyous moment of opening it, and you begin to forget how excited you were about it. Now you cant even remember where you put it, and are asking for the next best thing this Christmas. This is a common trait that we as a human race posses. Today in sacrament i felt like i should read our opening hymn, Improve the Shining Moments. Improve the shining moments; don't let them pass you by.
We need to improve this shining moment of life. Because that's all it is. A moment. A moment our loving God gave us as a gift. We need to remember, go back to that day we unwrapped it, time to take that embarrassing picture out of the trash and look back at how excited we were to use this gift to the best of its ability. Lets use our gifts of family, love, the Gospel, and share them. Let us place these gifts in a place of honor and never forget them. Because these are the gifts from our God, who "will love and bless you, and help to you impart."

Improve the Shining Moments, don't let them pass you by.