In reading President Uchtdorf’s talk, several things resound to experiences more current and also on point for me. Talking about slowing down for the “speed bumps” we understand this at one level in North America. In Brasil however, it has a much more poignant meaning. The name of these very large bumps here is “quebra molas” or translated “break the shocks.” If you do not slow down, you will very likely break the shocks or maybe even worse. Like the speed bumps of life, sometimes here they are not marked and at night you may hit them at speed to your detriment.
Commenting also about “...what does it have to do with flying an airplane?” I remember early in my flying lessons coming in too low and too slow for a landing at the Glendale airport. I became very concerned as I could see the large vehicles on Grand Avenue there in front of us. I expected my instructor to take over and make the corrections needed but he just sat there with his arms folded and asked; “what are you going to do, let us crash?” The natural response to this situation would have been to pull back on the yoke and lift the plane higher, but that would have had the most dangerous effect of slowing the plane down, perhaps even to the stall level. Fortunately, I remembered to apply power and slowly seek the appropriate approach configuration. The same lesson is here to approach challenges and difficulties carefully and appropriately and not to overreact and make it worse.
While not expanding our "to do list," his counsel includes these four important activities to improve upon:
- First, our relationship with God is most sacred and vital.
- Our second key relationship is with our families.
- The third key relationship we have is with our fellowman.
- The fourth key relationship is with ourselves.
What I noted from his talk was that we stress ourselves out! We think being busy is ok, but he said it only complicates our lives. He said that milestones can become millstones. We need to choose better or best among allot of good things. That simplicity is the ultimate. We need to turn our ways to His ways. We can only become great when we master the fundamentals, we get too caught up in the other things. The fundamentals are the pure doctrine, it is the gateway to truth. The basic principles are the key to living in harmony. Hear and obey - slow down - proceed at optimum speed for your circumstances. Be deligent in doing the things that matter most. SIMPLlFY
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