I’m grateful to the Baron Music Group whose gathered many of my colleagues and friends for a benefit concert in behalf of our family called "Living for Eden." Our friends Kurt Bestor, Peter Breinholt, Ryan Shupe & The Rubberband, Colors, and Sam Payne are all incredible artists and musicians who normally get paid to do these acts of kindness and so we are truly humbled. Several of them spent last week in Bulgaria performing for some orphanages and yet they come home to do even more for others. I can tell you that if these guys were selling cars they’d probably make a fortune. Yet, they choose to uplift and inspire through the power of music.
In my own situation, and through the years, if I’ve learned anything about life it is that in order to have true and lasting happiness (which is “joy”) you can’t wallow in your own suffering or poverty but use it to an advantage in empowering yourself to reach out to those with much greater need. “Forget yourself and go to work,” said Gordon B. Hinckley. And from Neal A. Maxwell, "God does not begin by asking us about our ability, but only about our availability, and if we then prove our dependability, he will increase our capability.”
