"Shine Where I am Walking"

When 10-year-old Bonnie H. Cordon was tasked with leading L. Tom Perry through a cornfield at night, she wisely brought a flashlight with her, but she didn't think to point it anywhere in particular, and without a steady light to guide his steps, Elder Perry stepped right into an irrigation ditch. For the return trip, Elder Perry told Sister Cordon, "Bonnie, I need to see the path. I need the light to shine where I am walking."

We, too, need the light to shine along our path, and, specifically, we need it to shine on the next step we should take. As each person is in a different place in their lives, each person needs the light to shine in a different place to help them see where they're going. So, as we try to help others along the path, we need to be mindful of where they currently stand on that path, and we need to shine the light where it's needed most, right on their next step. If we don't know where they are, spiritually, it'll be almost impossible to get them from there to where they need to be. We can't give them directions if we don't know where they are.

So, let's try to understand each other and where we are on our paths in life. If we want to give others guidance they can use, we need to understand where they are and what they need. It's good to have light and be willing to shine it on their path, but more specifically, we need to focus the light right where they're walking.