Gently Up The Stream

If life is compared to a river, it is easy to imagine floating with the current “gently down the stream”, but I have never found any good and worthwhile thing that came of its own accord, just the opposite.  Every worthy goal takes constant effort. There is nothing static in the universe, after all. Fortunately, the Lord does not require us to run faster than we have strength, (or row faster!)  Alma’s warning against procrastination is so perfect.  “You cannot say, when ye are brought to that awful crisis, that I will repent… (Alma 34:34)