Agency and Independence Day

Independence Day....

• I am grateful for this amazing country, built on courage and a belief that we are all children of God and that the Almighty has made us all free to choose our path through life and how we handle the adversity that is part of mortality.
• I am grateful for the miracles--the hand of Providence--that made this country possible.
• And I am grateful for the ideals we strive for and that this day represents.

Anxiously engaged in a good cause (Come, Follow Me)

I'm so grateful for agency and the Savior's invitation to use it to do good!  I feel like the more people recognize that they are free to act--to bring about good in the world--and not simply subject to the challenges of life and the choices of others, society would be transformed.

Men should be anxiously engaged in a good cause,
and do many things of their own free will,
and bring to pass much righteousness;
For the power is in them, wherein
they are agents unto themselves.
Doctrine and Covenants 58:27-28