Be Anxiously Engaged
- cardtheraphy51
- Aug 25
- 2 min read
This is another of my encouragement messages I send out regularly. The image is from the Silhouette Studio and the sentiment uses Antomica Font.
Message:
When I was a girl you became a beehive when you first entered Young Women’s. We were taught that the beehive represented our efforts to build unity and strength through faith. Maybe that’s why I loved this talk by Elder M. Russell Ballard. He tells of his father’s peach orchard and the hive of honeybees that he kept to pollinate the trees. Elder Ballard gives some amazing details about these small creatures.
“Honeybees are driven to pollinate, gather nectar, and condense the nectar into honey. It is their magnificent obsession imprinted into their genetic makeup by our Creator. It is estimated that to produce just one pound of honey, the average hive of 20,000 to 60,000 bees must collectively visit millions of flowers and travel the equivalent of two times around the world. Over its short lifetime of just a few weeks to four months, a single honeybee’s contribution of honey to its hive is a mere one-twelfth of one teaspoon.
“Though seemingly insignificant when compared to the total, each bee’s one-twelfth of a teaspoon of honey is vital to the life of the hive. The bees depend on each other. Work that would be overwhelming for a few bees to do becomes lighter because all of the bees faithfully do their part.”
I think that sometimes we feel our efforts don’t make much of a difference in the scheme of life. But, the Lord knows our efforts, and even though they are small, they do make a difference to our family, ward, community, and ultimately to the Kingdom of Heaven on earth, The Church of Jesus Christ.
Elder Ballard says it beautifully, “like the little honeybee’s one-twelfth teaspoon of honey provided to the hive, if we multiply our efforts by tens of thousands, even millions of prayerful efforts to share God’s love for His children through Christian service, there will be a compounding effect of good that will bring the Light of Christ to this ever-darkening world. Bound together, we will bring love and compassion to our own family and to the lonely, the poor, the broken, and to those of our Heavenly Father’s children who are searching for truth and peace.”
May we never underestimate the power of our small acts of love and service. Each effort to do something good may, as the song says, “help someone in need, cheer up the sad, make someone feel glad, lift someone’s burden, and help the sick and the weary along the way.
I know the many kind deeds you have shown to me through the years. I testify you have made a difference in my life, and I know I am only a small part of those you touch through your love and caring hearts. Thank you for all you do.
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