"Things my mother taught me...."

This week I was reminded of something that Mom used to say all of the time. "If not me, who? If not now, when?" I have tried to follow that counsel and take care of things that are being neglected: picking up little pieces of lint on the temple carpet, throwing litter away that missed the trash, helping a sister with her clothing, etc. There was a speaker on BYUtv (the wife of a 70 and the mother of 7). She told about one time when she and her husband did an experiment to follow-up on in FHE. They dumped a box of crunchy cereal in the hallway. The first kid thru the door after school walked thru it, oblivious. The next couple skirted around it on their way to get snacks. One commented--"Whoever made this mess is going to be in big trouble", another one said, "SOMEONE should clean this up!!". When one daughter came home, she saw the cereal and immediately went for the broom and dustpan and without any fanfare, she cleaned it up. There are some real life lessons here. I hope each one of you, when you see an unpleasant task or just something that others don't even seem to notice, will stop and ask yourself, "If not me, who? If not now, when?"