Today Will I Decide?

I wrote a poem for a lesson I taught to the young women in our ward. I think there is a tremendous deficit in the opportunities that young people have to learn why its so important to be chaste and virtuous and how to actually accomplish such a feat when almost everything in the else in the world SCREAMS its okay to be otherwise.

Today Will I Decide?

Today will I decide, are the things I’ve heard true?

Will I really be joyful if I keep my body new?

Will I live my life with spiritually strengthened days?

Will I strengthen myself by following in His ways?

Is my spirit just like my body? Does it need nourishment and care?

If I don’t pay attention to it, might it need repair?

Do scripture study, prayer, and faith and doing what is right,

help me to avoid temptations morning, noon, and night?

How can I keep myself pure?

This is a question I must answer and be quite sure.

If my resolve, is to keep myself pure,

For my sweetheart, my husband, the man I’ll hold most dear.

I must decide today what I have to do.

I can’t be indecisive and hold on to my virtue.

It may not be easy, especially if I fall in love,

But if I decide today, to wait, He’ll bless me from above.

Kimberly Wiberg