Saturday 15 April 2017

Diamond Nine-Patch

At this time of year I'm always reminded of Dr. Irving H. Cohen. When I was a teenager he challenged my peers and me to recite the generations of Adam. (Adam, Seth, Enos, Cainan, Mahaleleel, Jared, Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech, Noah. All these years I haven’t forgotten.) He taught us to call the coming holy day Resurrection Day. Easter is about duckies and bunnies. Resurrection Day is about so much more. Dr. Cohen was raised an Orthodox Jew in Brooklyn. He trained as a dentist and served in Korea in the 1950’s, where he read the Book of Mormon and became converted. When I met him Dr. Cohen was a member of the stake high council from Schenectady. If he’s still living, he’d at least be in his eighties. Over the course of a lifetime, you meet thousands of people. Many you won’t remember; others you will never ever forget. What will you leave the people who meet you today?

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