Little time

I don`t have much time today but I would like to leave with you a little story.

One of the object lessons that my companion loves to use is one involving a dozen nails and a bottle cap. You poke one nail through the bottle cap so as to make a stand. The point is to put all the nails balanced on the one nail without touching the ground or the nail, only the nail head. After about five minutes of letting those we teach puzzle that out we explain more by asking, what is life? They members of the family share little things that they think is part of life, such as family, church, school etc. etc. and we stack the nails in a certain way. We then make the connection that this one nail that stands in the middle is Jesus Christ. After balancing the careful constructed apparatus on top of the nail, we explain further. We talk about how sometimes parts of our lives seem to fall apart, at this point one of us aggressively hits the table. Obviously the nails on top of the one nail fall, but not the one. Not the one that is Jesus Christ.

It happened one time when during the lesson it clicked. I realized something that I couldn`t believe I hadn`t seen before. Christ as we know was the only perfect being. Which got me thinking what would I do if I was perfect? Wouldn`t that mean that I could do everything perfectly? So what would be stopping me from taking over the world? Yet he didn`t. He was born in a stable. He came to minister not to be ministered unto. He came and let them take his life because he loved us. He loved us so much that he gave that one gift that is treasured above everything else. I know that my redeemer lives, I know that he gave his life so that we may  live with peace and comfort in this life and the one to come. I know these things with all my heart and I am so grateful that I have the opportunity to serve my God, the one who served me, to share this message with the people of Montreal. I love you all and I say these things in the name of Jesus Christ Amen

Sister Cummings