Words are powerful in shaping the quality and direction of a person’s life. Considering the following quote, “They are never alone who are accompanied by noble thoughts”. The book A Thoughtful Calendar addresses nearly three hundred topics, offering a succinct quote and a corresponding scripture for each day of the year, with consideration of the seasons, holidays, famous birthdays, commemorations, and historical events.
The quotes have been gathered from such resources as talks, classes, personal study, movies and novels over a period of fifty plus years. Some entries have slight editing–primarily to facilitate a consistent format; and the vast majority of entries have added dimension with the inclusion of careful documentation.
ABOUT THE BOOK
A Thoughtful Calendar has been developed, using quotable quotes and scriptures carefully selected from thousands of entries. They cover a wide and balanced range of every-day subjects basic to most people. Not every quote comes with source documentation. Some quotes list for documentation, merely the source from which the quote was heard.
Some quotes are paraphrased as best remembered while taking notes. In a few rare cases, some quotes have been edited to facilitate a reader-friendly consistency. The quotes are taken from notes gleaned from sermons, talks, classes, personal scripture studies, inspiration, movies, novels, and from various other sources over a period of fifty plus years.
Each quote has an accompanying scripture which is carefully documented, and is presented as found in the given source, though with extraneous words removed in rare cases–primarily to accommodate the calendar’s structure and format.
Inasmuch as each month of the year has its own theme or spirit, the calendar selections, addressing nearly three hundred topics, offer a succinct quote and a corresponding scripture for each day of the year–with consideration of seasons, holidays, famous birthdays, commemorations, and historical events. Apology is made for the exclusion of countless quotes equally worthy of inclusion, but for the limitation of days in a calendar year. Listing of week days is not included in the calendar’s format to facilitate a perpetual use of the calendar, Leap Year included.
Many have enjoyed a daily quote just to get the day going.
What’s inside
Calendar Samples
May 3
Animals
Animals are reliable, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal…difficult standards for people to live up to. Edward Boehn
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And I, God, made the beasts of the earth…and cattle after their kind, and everything which creepeth upon the earth after his kind; …And I, God, saw…that…all things which I had made were good; Moses 2:25, 31
May 4
Art
Art is man’s creation in reflection of God’s.
S. H. Redd
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And I have filled him with the spirit of God, …in all manner of workmanship. Exodus 31:3
May 5
Liberty
Liberty becomes a thing of little value when no lives have to be given for it. Harold B. Lee
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And they entered into a covenant to fight for…liberty…to protect the land unto the laying down of their lives; yea, even they never would give up their liberty, but they would fight in all cases to protect themselves from bondage. Alma 53:17
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About the author
Sterling H. Redd Sr.
Sterling has had an identified interest in writing since one of his grandmothers recognized his writing skill during his teens. Having been orphaned at 12 years of age, he began living with his mother’s parents. He later studied Sociology and English at Brigham Young University. Sterling served as a missionary in New Zealand. Then came a year of active military service during the Berlin Crisis. Later, upon receiving a BS degree at Brigham Young University, he taught high school English in the Salt Lake area. After receiving an MSW degree at the University of Utah, he served for over thirty years as a clinical social worker and writer/editor for the Utah State Department of Health.
He was called as a member of the Bonneville Stake mission presidency. He served in subsequent years in several stake missions among diverse cultures. Among his service experience, he has been a Gospel Doctrine teacher, a High Priest Group instructor, and a High Priest Group leader. Since his retirement, he has completed a mission call at an LDS Employment Resource Center assisting a widely diverse patronage in personal resume writing. He then served a local service mission in the LDS Family Services Addiction Recovery Program. He is currently enjoying serving in nearby temples.
He has had a life-long drive in recording beautiful and meaningful quotes, poems and scriptures which have helped mold his writing interests and have subsequently found their way into a few books in his retirement years. He has a love of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, but in his concern over the national decline in scripture reading, and the fact that the general reading skill is below the junior high school level, he has had increased focus on and has spent decades in making scripture reading much more clear and easy for youth as well as mature readers, while maintaining the integrity of the original texts.
Sterling’s rather palpable love of people, nature, adventure, music and literature is reflected in his writing. He is the father of five grown children, and is currently residing in Salt Lake City with his wife and their aged cat.
Sterling H. Redd Sr.
