Marjorie attended BYU's 2008 Education Week.  One lecturer told how his father-in-law called home one day and asked if his teenagers were snowmobiling.  A daughter answered the phone, and told him that they were.  He told her that he had an uneasy feeling about it, and asked her to go tell them to put the snow mobiles away.

The two boys had just completed another circle through the fields as she went out.  She delivered their father's message.  One boy asked if he could just make one more circuit.  She said, "OK."

Had it been the mother who had taken the phone call and delivered the message, permission for one more circuit wouldn't have been granted.  But that one last circuit was all that was needed for the snow mobile to hit a wheel line hidden by the snow.  The boy who had asked to make one more circuit after being told to stop broke his neck, and died instantaneously.

When my three youngest boys were in grade school they discovered a new game.  One would lie on his back on the living room carpet and raise his feet up in the air.  Another boy would sit on the upraised feet, and the first boy would then launch the other across the living room.  Flying through the air was great fun.  This went on for some minutes until I said, "I think you'd better stop.  Someone is going to get hurt."

"Just one more time," they said.  Aaron launched Danny into the air.  There was an audible "crack" as Danny landed.  As he got up from the floor I asked, "Did something break?"

"No, I'd be crying if it did," Danny answered.  He then laid down on the couch and began to cry.  He'd broken the humerus, the bone in his upper arm.

The moral of these two stories could be summed up in a motto for life—DO IT NOW!

Joseph, husband of Mary, followed that motto.

"And...the angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thee word:  for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him.

"When he arose, he took the young child and his mother by night, and departed into Egypt."  (Matt. 2:13-14).

That was impressive.  Joseph didn't even wait for daybreak.  He got up, gathered his family and their things and set off for Egypt in the dark.  No wonder Joseph was chosen to be the guardian of the mortal Messiah during Jesus' formative years.

Eliza R. Snow penned a phrase in one of our popular hymns that tells us the safe way to live our lives:  "By strict obedience Jesus won the prize with glory rife."  ("Hymn #195, How Great the Wisdom).  By strict obedience we'll be safe.  Do it now.

If not now, when?

If not me, who?

Do it.  Do it now.