Recently, famous author Charles Dickens celebrated his 200th birthday. He is one of my favorite authors for many different reasons. I love the book A Christmas Carol. It tells the story of Scrooge as he moves from a man that is in love with money, to a man that loves humanity. His journey takes him to his lowest point as he sees all the opportunities of the past he missed. In the end, he has a change of heart as he runs through the town, exclaiming "I will live in the past, the present, and the future. I will not shut out the lessons they teach."
At the start of each new year, at the start of each new day, we have a chance to do what Scrooge did, to change. Many of times I have faced the challenge of putting the past behind me. Without doing so, I could never move forward. Some of us, like Scrooge, feel like we have a life time of missed opportunity. Whether it be a class we feel like we can never succeed at, or a friend theta we did not have time for, each of us have felt inadequate at times. That's where the savior and the gospel can help the most. With his help, each day we can choose to move forward, focusing on the small things we can do better, forgetting the things we have failed at in the past. Before Jeremy Lin of the New York Knick's became a starter, he went undrafted, sat on the bench, and was almost cut from the team altogether. The Wright brothers maid a series of gliders before successful flight. It took many experiments for Thomas Edison to make an electric light bulb.
If there is one thing I have learned over the past couple of weeks, it is that the Lord loves his children, and wants me to call on his name each day. As I face challenges with all the power I posses to overcome them, falling sometimes, succeeding others, he will always be there if I but go forward in courage. With the right attitude, he can change my heart.
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