Now in your official roles, when teaching, praying, blessing, administering, counseling, baptizing, studying, fasting, the sense of the Master's nearness is obvious. But my suggestion, what I yearn to stress here, is that when you permit Him into other aspects of life in all contrasts, you will the more increase in your power. Here are some illustrations. In whole laughter. We have sat at the dinner table and recounted our adventures and minor missionary disasters with mirth.
Eyes glisten with glad humor.
Being willing to laugh at oneself, especially at what is fake and foolish, is often the beginning of growth in spiritual sensitivity. Sometimes things only stop hurting when you laugh whole-souled laughter. In practical drudgery . Wilford Woodruff, hoe in hand, felt just as much consecrated as with the Book of Mormon. Sweat is as real a token of love as is the sound of a choir.