He said,
"The height boards I have described are only one way to help young people glimpse the grandeur God sees in them and their futures and the unique service He has prepared them to give. He will help you see how to do it for your children or for other youth you lead. But as you prayerfully seek to glimpse this future for yourself and to communicate it to the young person one on one, you will come to know that God loves each of His children as individuals and sees great and unique gifts in each of them.
God knows our gifts. My challenge to you and to me is to pray to know the gifts we have been given, to know how to develop them, and to recognize the opportunities to serve others that God provides us. But most of all, I pray that you will be inspired to help others discover their special gifts from God to serve."
I love these thoughts and shared them in our Key Scouters Meeting this morning (while blubbering of course) because as leaders of the Scouts (and also the Young Women as Girl's Camp Director) we are striving to help these kids recognize their potential and make good choices that will greatly affect their futures (no pressure). When I think back to my teenage years I am especially thankful for a wise Bishop who made the effort to know me. Whenever he talked to to me he looked at me with eyes of love and always made me feel like I was something special. He probably did that for all the youth, but he had a way of making me feel like he really saw who I was. This was an amazing gift for him to have and to share especially at a time when I was never happy with my parents!
