In his closing remarks in the October 2021 general conference President Russell M. Nelson asked us to do a most unusual thing.  Four times he made this remarkable request:  He asked us to “make time for the Lord—each and every day.”

Is it possible to “make time?”  Time is a very limited—and a very valuable—commodity, and President Nelson is asking us to make time?  How do you do that?

What if we were to get up 30 minutes earlier in the morning each day, and to go out into the quiet living room before everyone else gets up?  What if we had a prayer, and read the scriptures, and wrote in our journal, and gave the Holy ghost the chance to speak to us on a daily basis?  I wonder if it would make a difference?

Or what if we were to listen to an audio version of the scriptures or of general conference while we were taking our walk or our jog or doing our exercising?

Or suppose at noon, instead of going to the lunch room with everyone else, we went somewhere quiet and pulled a Book of Mormon out of our lunch pail to read as we ate?

How do you suppose the kids would react if you were to wake them 15 minutes early for a daily family devotional where you read inspiring stories from general conference?  You'd never run out of material, you'd have their interest and attention, and it would be the easiest thing in the world for family prayer to happen each and every day.

Maybe you could make a goal to read five pages of the Book of Mormon every night as you get into bed.  That would only take you 13-1/2 minutes if you're an average reader, and you'd complete the book three times a year.

Do you suppose it would make a difference?

Did President Nelson ask us to do an impossible thing when he asked us to make time?  Neither the Lord nor His prophets have ever asked us to do the impossible.  Rather, they only ask us to do things that will bless our lives, and bring us closer to God.