Nice Medium article written by the Lt. Governor.
https://medium.com/@coxsp/3-funerals...e-35b8a210b806
https://medium.com/@coxsp/3-funerals...e-35b8a210b806
You are probably wondering why I’m writing this. Honestly, I’m not even sure myself — except that I felt compelled to. I should probably have something more profound to say at this point. I guess, more than anything else, despite all the differences between these men, I was struck by the similarities of their funerals…and not just what was said, but what wasn’t said.
Conspicuously absent from their services was any discussion about politics. I have no idea where these three men stood on the Affordable Care Act or the GOP tax cuts. No one talked about earthly possessions or fame or fortune. The thing that mattered most…and maybe the only thing that mattered at all…was their service to others.
It would seem then, that true greatness, the real measure of a man, comes in the way he or she treats others. Martin Luther King Jr. said it so well, “Everybody can be great … because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.” Thomas Monson knew that. Matt Hillyard knew that. And Glenn Mower knew that.
Conspicuously absent from their services was any discussion about politics. I have no idea where these three men stood on the Affordable Care Act or the GOP tax cuts. No one talked about earthly possessions or fame or fortune. The thing that mattered most…and maybe the only thing that mattered at all…was their service to others.
It would seem then, that true greatness, the real measure of a man, comes in the way he or she treats others. Martin Luther King Jr. said it so well, “Everybody can be great … because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.” Thomas Monson knew that. Matt Hillyard knew that. And Glenn Mower knew that.
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