Joyful Wells | Sharing Cups of Water

 I thought this would be useful to share. You can find more versions of it here .

We’re all familiar with the verse about removing the beam in your eye before worrying about the speck in someone else’s (3 Nephi 6:6). This instruction can keep us busy for a while.  It also reminds me that there are so many people who genuinely want to help others and that’s a good thing. If that’s what one desires, greater effort will be required and expected in order to be trusted as one of His faithful messengers (hence the beam). You have to be different than those around you. And in the end, you will labor so much only to help some understand just a little (hence the speck).  That should also keep us busy for a while.  By the way, here’s a comparison between the Restoration Edition and the Covenant of Christ version about this: “And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull the mote out of thine eye, and behold, a beam is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, first

For those studying the  Covenant of Christ   with their families before the vote in October, below is a Quizlet link to help children memorize the new verses - if you think it could be useful. I will post a new set just before the first Sunday of every month until the conference.  https://quizlet.com/931591985/covenant-of-christ-scriptures-kids-flash-cards/?i=5nic8b&x=1jqY If the scriptures are sustained, perhaps something better than Quizlet can be produced. Hope to see you there. 

In everyday conversation, I often struggle to express myself in words adequately. At least, I genuinely think I do. I guess that’s why I enjoy writing.   We also live in a day when it’s common to talk over one another when exchanging ideas.  This is a double whammy for me. For too long, I’ve projected how poorly man communes with one another onto the Lord - That is, he is also inadequate in expressing himself in a way I would understand and that he would inconsiderately talk over me.  Instead, he is patient and loving, so that we can understand one another. I’ve created my own veil that needs to be passed through, and the veil gets thinner the more I consider this. “And now come, says the Lord by the spirit unto the elders of his church, and let us reason together that you may understand. Let us reason even as a man reasons, one with another, face to face. Now, when a man reasons he is understood of man because he reasons as a man; even so will I the Lord reason with you that you may u