have regretted my omission

As a small boy … , I remember my grandmother … cooking our delicious meals on a hot woodstove. When the wood box next to the stove became empty, Grandmother would silently … go out to refill it from the pile of cedar wood outside, and bring the heavily laden box back into the house. I was so insensitive … [that] I sat there and let my beloved grandmother refill [that] box.... I feel ashamed of myself and have regretted my omission for all of my life. I hope someday to ask for her forgiveness.


James E. Faust, “The Weightier Matters of the Law: Judgment, Mercy, and Faith,” Ensign, Nov. 1997, 59. As quoted in "Because of Your Faith" by Jeffrey R. Holland, General Conference October 2010