music is magic

i love it when we have special musical numbers during sacrament meeting. and i love it even more when the musical number is GOOD. today the song was from the primary songbook, I'm Trying to be Like Jesus. and it.was.good!

rosie sang it and she is the sweetest, nicest, kindest, lovingest girl--ever! she is such a sweetheart and you can't help but love her. :) so besides the fact that she has a gorgeous voice, and her singing was absolutely beautiful, and she was singing one of my favorite primary songs, she LIVES her testimony. she has so much love for the people around her. and it made a big difference. i wanna be like her!

i felt the spirit so strongly as she sang because she was bearing her testimony through song and i could feel her love for others and the savior's love for all of us. the spirit was so powerful and warm that it made me want to be better, to judge less, and to love more. so, for the rest of forever...

I’m trying to be like Jesus;

I’m following in his ways.

I’m trying to love as he did, in all that I do and say.

At times I am tempted to make a wrong choice,

But I try to listen as the still small voice whispers,

“Love one another as Jesus loves you.

Try to show kindness in all that you do.

Be gentle and loving in deed and in thought,

For these are the things Jesus taught.”

I’m trying to love my neighbor;

I’m learning to serve my friends.

I watch for the day of gladness when Jesus will come again.

I try to remember the lessons he taught.

Then the Holy Spirit enters into my thoughts, saying:

“Love one another as Jesus loves you.

Try to show kindness in all that you do.

Be gentle and loving in deed and in thought,

For these are the things Jesus taught.”

Janice Kapp Perry