This is what we are missing...

This was the daily gem that I got today and as I was reading it I was thinking how different our country could be if even half the population were able to exercise moral discipline. Perhaps it would become a country I'm proud to live in again...

Exercising Agency to Choose the Right

Posted: 26 Jul 2010 12:00 AM PDT

“ ‘Moral discipline’ [means] self-discipline based on moral standards. Moral discipline is the consistent exercise of agency to choose the right because it is right, even when it is hard. It rejects the self-absorbed life in favor of developing character worthy of respect and true greatness through Christlike service (see Mark 10:42-45).” D. Todd Christofferson, “Moral Discipline,” Ensign, Nov. 2009, 105