“Please sir, they can’t kill a tough old bird like me.”

Of all the challenges we face, perhaps the most misguided is the idea that mortality goes on forever and that we can put off repentance.

We must seek and tender forgiveness. We must repent and be charitable toward others.

“I guess that I had half expected to find Yesterday, but what I found was Today and the promise of a bright Tomorrow.“

Of all the challenges we face, perhaps the greatest is a misguided sense that mortality goes on forever and its corollary, that we can postpone until tomorrow the seeking and offering of forgiveness, which as the gospel of Jesus Christ teaches, are among mortality’s central purposes.

This life is not so much a time for getting and accumulating as it is a time for giving and becoming.

Mortality is the battlefield upon which justice and mercy meet. But they need not meet as adversaries, for they are reconciled in the Atonement of Jesus Christ for all who wisely use Today.

Perfection may elude us here, but we can be merciful. And in the end, repenting and forgiving are among God’s chief requirements of us.