Tag Archives: Agency

Gratitude for Agency

Lately I have been thinking a lot about agency and choices and about how grateful I am for them. I have never been the type of person that enjoyed being told what to do. As a child I would go and do the opposite of whatever I was ordered to do. Even as an adult I find myself throwing up walls as soon as anybody tells me to do something. I enjoy making the right choice, and doing the right thing, as long as I am the one that gets to make that choice. It was surprising to me when … Continue reading →

The Gift of Agency

Agency has been on my mind a lot lately. I am grateful that I know about agency and accountability. I just read a conference talk titled “To Act for Ourselves: The Gift and Blessings of Agency” by Robert D. Hales. This is an excellent talk about agency and the power we have to choose each day to follow the Lord. Elder Hales talks about how agency fits into the plan of salvation. He also tells us that agency is a gift and that we have the power to make all of our choices. Elder Hale says: “Although the devil laughs, … Continue reading →

Choices

“Making choices is the substance of our lives. We fought a war in heaven over choices. And the great battle goes on in the world today.” —President Gordon B. Hinckley (Ensign, Apr. 1996, 76) We have many choices before us each day. Some of them seem so simple and so unimportant in the grand scheme of things, others seem to hang over us and haunt us as we try to decide what to do. There are decisions that can be made only once, and then stuck to for the rest of our lives. One example is that I made the … Continue reading →

Family Home Evening: Agency and Accountability

Agency and accountability are some of the most important principles that you can teach your children about. In continuing with using the For Strength of Youth Pamphlet as a guide for family home evenings, I thought that I would use the section “Agency and Accountability.” This is an important section as it talks about the ability to make choices which we each have been blessed with. It also talks about accountability or the fact that we will receive consequences for every choice that we make. A good opening scripture is 2 Nephi 2:27. If you have youth you will want … Continue reading →