May we treasure the divine gift of communication, and may we use it wisely to build and assist others on this marvelous journey through mortality. Humans face countless social interactions with friends and strangers on a daily basis. In spite of vast differences between these encounters, the contexts within which they occur and the knowledge available to us about others, we appear to achieve our social goals with apparent ease. Evidence from social psychology and social neuroscience suggests that to understand what others think and feel we rely at least partly on our own projections of what we would think and feel in comparable situations. Such claims are buttressed by findings of shared neural representations when thinking about oneself and others or sharing others’ feelings. While this mechanism works when thoughts and feelings are aligned with one’s own, it fails should this not be the case. Therefore, to enable smooth social interactions a distinction has to be made between our own and others’ mental representations and emotional experiences. This ability is also known as self-other distinction and has been related to various domains such as perception-action in the form of inhibiting automatic imitation tendencies, representing others’ mental states that conflict with our own current mental state, as well as our ability to empathize with others, particularly when the emotional statues between self and others are incongruent. #RandolphHarris 1 of 12

People who love God know that they way they communicate is very important. Their communications, both verbal and nonverbal, are to be kind, compassionate, and helpful, reflecting a love for Heavenly Father’s children and an understanding that all people are brothers and sisters. Godly communications are expressed in tones of love rather than loudness. They are intended to be helpful rather than hurtful. They tend to bind us together rather than to drive us apart. They tend to build rather than to belittle. Godly communications are expressions of affection and not anger, truth and not fabrication, compassion and not contention, respect and not ridicule, counsel and not criticism, correction and not condemnation. They are spoken with clarity and not with confusion. They may be tender or they may be tough, but they must always be tempered. Much like the way our understanding of others’ thoughts and feelings relies on projections of our own experiences, the perception of others’ actions and the execution of one’s own actions are believed to have a common representational basis. Such evidence comes from behavioural findings showing that executing an action will be slowed when simultaneously observing an incongruent action. Further, neuroimaging studies also show that action observation activates brain regions involved in planning and executing actions. #RandolphHarris 2 of 12

The real challenge that we face in our communications with others is to condition our hearts to have Godlike feelings for all of Heavenly Father’s children. When we develop this concern for the condition of others, we then will communicate with them as the Savior would. We will then warm the hearts of those who may be suffering in silence. As we meet people with special needs along life’s way, we can then make their journey brighter by the things that we say. Our thoughts, beliefs and intentions rarely align with those of others. Thus when having to fathom another’s mental state, we must avoid merely attributing our own to others. Even through the control problem is converse to that encountered in inhibiting imitative actions, we face a similar challenge in as far as two representations have to be distinguished, in this case our own mental state from that of others. This arguably pertains to a whole range of mental states that arise out of experience (i.e what information does an agents have visual access to and is likely to know as a result versus what do I know as typically tested in visual perspective-taking tasks) as well as beliefs (i.e what is an agent likely to believe based on their personal experience versus what do I believe as typically tested in paradigms of belief attribution. Godlike communications will help us to develop righteous relationships and ultimately to return to our Heavenly home safely. “And land their souls, yea, their immortal souls, at the right hand of God in the kingdom of Heaven,” reports Helaman 3.30. #RandolphHarris 3 of 12

Many people are looking for a hero. Blended mythology with metaphysics, people have often produced an image of the ideal type of individual needed as the savior of humanity. The hero can take many forms: he or she can be a god, a prophet, poet, priest, a man of letters, a doctor, lawyer, first responders, architects, law enforcement, teachers, a baker and so on. In fact, the hero can be what you will, according to the kind of World he or she finds oneself born into. The hero’s ever-varying persona results from the deeper needs of society. He or she is directed not by the mechanical needs of humanity, but by their dynamical unseen, mystical needs. Thus, all heroes have discerned truly what the time wanted, and have led it on the right road thither. In this sense, the hero is a gift from Heaven, a force of nature; and has an essential quality of original insight into the primal reality of things. Because of the hero’s firm contact with the great fact of existence, one cannot lie. The Hero is heartily in earnest: an unconscious sincerity emanates from the individual turning his or her acts or utterances into a kind of revelation, which the ordinary, everyday people are morally obliged to recognize and obey. For all that is right includes itself in this of co-operating with the real tendency of the World. The Lord wants us to remember that our protection is not in humankind or any system. We can and must only rely on God. We must pray for our leaders to have wisdom to fight against any threat to our land. However, we must ultimately put our trust in God, our true hero, who will protect us. #RandolphHarris 4 of 12

The objectivity of consciousness is manifested empirically in the fact that we inhabit one common World; but this empirical community is a posteriori and always remains problematical. The World of different observers is one World that must be taken on faith; and this faith is justified only when the observers actually succeed in reaching agreement. The real World is the result, not the condition, of this agreement. The a priori principle, in which our experience of a common World is grounded, is called God. Drawing near to God is the heart’s desire of most Christians. Yet, with work, raising children, running errands and paying bills, getting a moment to just be quiet and relax seems like a challenge. This leaves many wondering how they can draw near God in a daily basis? Values can be realized, communicated, and related only within the diverse dimensions consequent to the process of self-distinction. God is the transcendent and transcendental principle of the integrity of values. The first manifestation of this integrity is to be found in the concrete unity of the incarnate human person. One of the many ways we can draw near God is to thank him. “Enter the Lord’s gates with thanksgiving; go into his courts with praise. Give thanks to him and praise his name,” reports Psalm 100.4. Then, the World and God become the twin poles between which the human person mediates and, in the process of mediation, creates both its own self-hood and the concrete locus of the integrity of all values. #RandolphHarris 5 of 12

 We live in the greatest nation in the World with the highest economic gross domestic product (GDP). The GDP measures bot the total income earned in the economy and the total expenditure on the economy’s output of goods and services. The level of the real GDP is a good gauge of economic progress. Some Godly leaders and of course, men and women who use their God-given intelligence to keep our homeland as safe as they possibly can, try to keep misguided actions from leading to heartache, shame, and misery. However, even when we let our guard down and something happens we understand that in the Bible we are told that there will be trials and tribulations. All those heroes cannot save us from the real enemy all the time. There is a battle for souls and the adversary uses people or groups of people to try and succeed. In the end, they will be the defeated for. And yes, there will always be heroes, and we will remember their sacrifice, but let us never forget the supreme sacrifice our Savior, our greatest Hero, who died for humanity. By his dying on a cross, Christ has made the way for us to have eternal life. “Those who turn away from you will be written in the dust because they have forsaken the LORD, the spring of living water. Heal us, O LORD, and we will be healed; save us and we will be saved, for you are the one we praise,” reports Jeremiah 17.13-14.  #RandolphHarris 6 of 12

We are to fear as we approach another year and we should never leave something as important as our energy flow to chance. What we really want out of life is to feel enthusiasm, joy, and love. We serve the Ultimate hero, and any threat or even disaster, he will rescue us from the snare of the fowler. Let us prepare our hearts to pray for God’s protection over our land and that we will all be ready in any impending danger to be rescued by our greatest hero, God. “Our God is our rock, in whom we take refuge, our shield and the horn of our salvation. The Lord is our stronghold, our refuge and our Savior—from violent people he saves us,” reports 2 Samuel 22.3. Energy can heal, and that is why love can heal. As we explore this inner energy, a whole World of discovery opens up to us. The most important thing in life is our inner energy. If we are always tired and exhausted, then life is no fun. However, if we are always inspired and filled with energy, then every minute of every day is an exciting experience. We have to learn to work with these things. Through prayer, awareness and willful efforts, we can learn to keep our centers open. We do this by just relaxing and releasing. If we love life, nothing is worth closing over. Nothing, ever, is worth closing our hearts over. “People draw near the Lord with mouth, but have removed heart from him,” reports Isaiah 27.25. Which means we cannot only speak of God, but we have to have Godly ways in our heart and express Godly actions. “Have love of God always in heart,” reports Alma 13.29. #Randolphharris 7 of 12

Very few people understand the heart. In truth, our hearts are one of the masterpieces of creation. It is a phenomenal instrument. The heart is an instrument made of extremely subtle energy that few people come to appreciate. It has the potential to create vibrations and harmonies that are far beyond the beauty of pianos, strings, or flutes. We can hear an instrument, but we can feel our heat. And if we thin that we feel an instrument, it is only because it touched our hearts. Your heart helps you find out who your friends are. They are the ones who drop everything, run out and crank up their car, hit the gas and get there fast. They never stop to think “What’s in it for me?” or “It’s way too far.” They just show on up with the big old heart. When the water is high, when the weather is not so fair, when the well runs dry, who is going to be there? When you became friends with someone you really liked and found that you have a lot in common, did it seem like an effort to get to know that person?  In order to know God, we will need to put forth some effort. However, if we love him, it will not seem like any effort at all. Without God, repentance would have little meaning, and forgiveness would be both unnecessary and unreal. If there were no God, life would indeed be meaningless. Without God there would be no redemption, no resurrection, on eternities to anticipate, and consequently no hope. #RandolphHarris 8 of 12

God is out ancestor, not distant but close. He is the Father of our spirits; we are his children. We must want to be with him, and we must sense our need to be purified to be with him again. Nothing is going to startle us more when we pass through the veil to the other side than to realize how well we know our Father and how familiar his face is to us. Still, we need to feel now that God knows us and loves us as individuals. There are times when we have felt the closeness of God, our Father, and we know we that we are his children. Those times can come more often. There is a simple way to think about it. Our Heavenly Father has not only invited us to speak to him, he has commanded it. And, as he has always done, when he commands, he promises, too. These energy shifts and variation from the Lord take place in the heart and they run our lives. We are the experiencer of our hearts. If we pray always, God will pour out his Spirit upon us, and great shall be our blessing—even more than if we should obtain treasures of Earth and corruptibleness to the extent thereof. When we take in the World through our sense, it is actually energy patterns that our mind and heart can receive and experience. God speaks directly to our heart. More often it will make our hearts burn within us, again softly, but with a burning which will lift and reassure. After we have listened, we will act because when his voice by Spirit we will always feel that we are compelled to do something. #RandolphHarris 9 of 12

The Holy Ghost can do for us physically, spiritually, emotionally, mentally, and intellectually what no human-made remedy can begin to duplicate. It should be our deepest desire that we will increase in our ability to hear and understand the promptings of the Spirit and act on the promptings that we get from the Holy Ghost. When we pray, we have to sincerely learn to formulate genuine and heartfelt questions and humbly take them to the Lord. As we are faithful to the promises we have made to God, we will feel our love for him. It will increase because we will sense his power and his drawing nears to us in his service. God always comes to the rescue. There is a glorious homecoming prepared for us. We will then see fulfilled the promise of the Lord we have loved. It is God who welcomes us into eternal life. God is a love mechanic. He has just what we need. The Lord has the tools to fix us, and he will make sure our engines are clean. All of God’s work carried a lifetime guarantee. God will reveal our love with all brand-new parts. Do you hear me? When God is finished with our motors, he guarantees we will always start. God will raise our hood, and although the oil looks pretty good, even if we have a busted pan, the Lord will fix it, and he will check our pistons, and give us a new carborator, too. When we hit that starter, just like waves of energy, the energy that comes into it will keep us moving. Obedience and righteousness lead to blessings, which lead to joy! #RandolphHarris 10 of 12

We have known each other for so long, but we have not seen each other. Those innumerable letters tell everything or nothing. You may well imagine me and I you. Then why not get out the fence in belief that our real sight can be more brilliant that that in dreams? Distance is melancholically beautiful. On my way of life, you have enriched my spirit, developed my intelligence and ignited a beacon of hope. When the storm is coming, birds hide themselves in the nest.  When I am hit by wind and rains, I always hide in your heart. The Sun proceeds unmoved to measure off another day for an approving God. One this long storm the rainbow rose, on this late morn the Sun; the clouds, like listless elephants, horizons straggled down. The birds rose smiling in their nests, the gales indeed were done; alas! how heedless were the eyes on whom the Summer shone! The quiet nonchalance of passing no daybreak can bestir; the slow archangel’s syllables must awaken her. A power of butterfly mist be the aptitude to fly, meadows of majesty concedes and easy sweeps of sky. So I must baffle at the hint and cipher at the sign, and make much bungler, if at last I take the clew divine. Departed to the judgment, a mighty afternoon; great clouds like ushers leaning, creation looking on. The flesh surrendered, cancelled, the bodiless begun; two Worlds, like audiences, disperse and leave the soul alone. #RandolphHarris 11 of 12

Open the window of the Winter quietly to send you a message. Are you well and I am missing you. Safe in their alabaster chambers, untouched by morning and untouched by noon, sleep the meek members of the resurrection, rafter of stain, and roof of stone. Light laughs the breeze in her castle of Sunshine; babbles the bee in a stolid ear; pipe the sweet birds in ignorant cadence—ah, what sagacity perished here! Grand go the years in the crescent above them; Worlds scoop their arcs, and firmaments row, diadems drop and doges surrender, soundless as dots on a disk of snow. The pleasure you have brought about, the assistance you have offered, the love you have showed and the life you have lived—all these make you more amiable and respectable with every passing year in our hearts. Listen to the blessings of the Earth in this beautiful and warm World. I wish you a happy life and a successful love that grows deeper day by day. Even if we have nothing, love is enough. Every time we read a scripture, every time we listen to a Bible-based teaching and receive truth from the Word of God, faith is coming to us, increasing in us, and strengthening our spiritual being. When we deposit the truth of the Word of God into our hears, it breaks every bondage and sets us free to be who God created us to be. We all have the potential to grow our faith to a great level. And it really is not that difficult. It just takes a little time and diligence. “The purifying and the sanctification of their hearts, which sanctification comes from yielding their hearts unto God,” reports Helaman 3.35. #RandolphHarris 12 of 12Pools, lakes, ponds, buckets, bathtubs, sinks, toilets and beaches can all be liability.  Water, during the Summer fun and cool relief from hot weather. However, if parents do not take the proper precautions, water also can be dangerous for kids. Nearly 1,000 kids die each year by drowning. And most drownings happen in home swimming pools. It is the second leading cause of accidental death for people between the ages of 5 and 24. The good news is there are many ways to keep your kids safe in the water — and make sure that they take the right precautions when they are on their own. Kids need constant supervision around water — whether the water is in a bathtub, a wading pool, an ornamental fish pond, a swimming pool, a spa, the beach, or a lake. Young children are especially at risk — they can drown in less than 2 inches (6 centimeters) of water. That means drowning can happen where you would least expect it — the sink, the toilet bowl, fountains, buckets, inflatable pools, or small bodies of standing water around your home, such as ditches filled with rainwater. Always watch children closely when they are in or near any water.

If you are not a swimmer yourself, it is a good idea to take lessons and learn how to swim. And kids over 4 years old should learn, too (check the local recreation center for classes taught by qualified instructors). Kids who are younger (but older than age 1) also might benefit from swimming lessons, but check with your doctor first, and if they child does not seem to like it, do not force them to swim. Do not assume that a child who knows how to swim is not at risk for drowning. All kids need to be supervised in the water, no matter what their swimming skills. And infants, toddlers, and weak swimmers should have an adult swimmer within arm’s reach to provide “touch supervision.” Invest in proper-fitting, Coast Guard-approved flotation devices (life vests) and have kids wear them whenever near water. Check the weight and size recommendations on the label, then have your child try it on to make sure it fits snugly. For kids younger than 5 years old, choose a vest with a strap between the legs and head support — the collar will keep the child’s head up and face out of the water. Inflatable vests and arm devices such as water wings are not effective protection against drowning. Also, if water is still in their lungs after being exposed to water, kids and adults can drown hours later, even though they are longer in the water.

Do not forget the sunscreen and reapply often, especially if the kids are getting wet. UV sunglasses, hats, and protective clothing also can help provide sun protection. Also, be careful not to let kids play with rocks, pebbles, nor deflated plastic; they can cause suffocation.