---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - George H. Brimhall
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 18
number: 3
published: 1915-01
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'George H. Brimhall, "To Myself," *Improvement Era* 18, no. 3 (January 1915): 233.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1803unse
  transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers.
  identifier: improvementera1803unse
start_page: 233
end_page: 233
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1915-01)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1803unse
  publication_year: 1915
  note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1915, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# To Myself

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JOY                                               233

only way to keep your blessings is to give them away. This is
the lesson the flower teaches. It opens its little heart and sends
forth the gentle dew of its soul to gladden the world.      It live-
by what it gives. Shut up the flower, so that its tinted lips can-
not express in scent and color the thought God sent it to express,
and it withers and dies. Shut up your souls so that they do not
express in word, aspiration and act, the goodness, the truth and
beauty that God intended they should express, and they will wither
and die. But open your souls wide and let them send forth with-
out measure, smiles for the glad, tears for the sad, sympathy for
the sorrowing, inspiration' for the plodding, help for the needy,
and worship for God, and they will unfold and develop until they
become perfect even as God is perfect.

                                      To Myself
                  (  may I know the Lord as friend,
                      )

                  And love of him my life attend;
                  The sweetest joy be mine to know
                  That    I   have lessened others' woe.
                  May life eternal be my share,
                  Under my Redeemer's care,
                  With those      I    love   — eternal joy,
                  Eternal good,  my time employ:
                  Eternal increase of my life,
                  I'ternal victoiy, 'mid the strife,
                  Eternal truth to learn each day
                  Eternal betterment of way.
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