“I have learned that a person does not need to have a Church calling, an invitation to help someone, or even good health to become an instrument in God’s hands. … The prophets and the scriptures teach us how.
“First of all, we must have love for God’s children. When the lawyer asked the Savior, ‘Master, which is the great commandment?’ the Savior replied:
“‘Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
“‘This is the first and great commandment.
“‘And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself’ (Matthew 22:36–39)” (Clarke, “Becoming Instruments in the Hands of God,” 97–98).