I wake in the morning feeling excited.  I'm excited because I have a project.  I'm eager to start the next step, and to continue putting together my creation.  I'm bringing something into existence which has never existed before.  I'm developing an idea, and the result is going to be beautiful and useful.

To create is a basic human need.  It is instilled in each soul by the Creator, who wants each of His children to become like Him.  Upon each of His children He has bestowed talents which He hopes will be developed.

My creation may be a piece of woodwork, or a new kitchen for my daughter, or a poem or essay, or a new straight, tight fence.

My wife is excited about the table runner that she is crocheting.  It is going to require 54 square blocks that will comprise the edge of the runner.  She can complete one square on our weekly two-hour trip to Boise, and another on the way home.  Completing the project will require half a year or more.  She shows deep satisfaction as she holds up each perfect, just-completed three-inch square.  Each square block requires thousands of stitches, and each stitch must be counted and exact.  A mistake anywhere in the square necessitates unraveling the whole thing, and starting over.

She's excited about her flower gardens, and goes back again and again every day just to look and to tweak this or that aspect of her creation.  She also takes delight in sitting down at the piano each day and going over and over a Mendelssohn piece until after days or weeks of work she can play it flawlessly.

Our daughter is impatient to get her housework done and the needs of her five small children attended to so that she can write down the tune that is developing in her head.  She then gathers her children around the piano and teaches them the scripture that she has just put to music.  Her creations are not just the catchy tunes that she composes, but also the well-taught, well-behaved prodigies that she's bringing up.

Our son is eager each morning to get back to his pond-digging project.  The result is going to be a nicely-contoured, aesthetically-pleasing, functional water-storage facility which will provide all the water necessary to run the pivot that will keep his field green.  He has probably tripled that field's production over what I used to be able to make it do.

He theorizes that the telestial kingdom is going to be inhabited by people who will be satisfied living the same humdrum, uncreative lives that they're presently living.  The celestial kingdom, however, will be possessed by people with projects.  They'll be busy.  They'll be planning and preparing and creating new worlds.

We must pity those who have never experienced the joy of working and the satisfaction that comes from creating.  There are currently mobs of people in all the major U.S. cities who are protesting, looting, and burning.  Instead of creating, they are bent on destruction.  They have probably never created anything in their lives.  (Marjorie says, "People want to have influence.  If they can't create, they tear down.  That's the way they have influence.")

These are largely young people.  They haven't been taught how to work.  They haven't been required to work.  They aren't aware that they have a talent or a gift.  They're irritated by those that do.  They have never experienced the feelings of satisfaction that come from a job well done.  They have never created anything.

What if someone was to take a group of such young people, learn their individual interests, and teach them how to make something in which they could take pride?

These lost souls need projects.  They need something to be excited about.