REMEMBER AND PERISH NOT

There are diverse places that I must now walk.
When I'm alone there's someone with whom I talk.
In prayer to God, I'll remember and perish not.
I know I've been called to action in deed and thought.
We can remember from a gospel reservoir.
Prayerfully, carefully for there's great battles in store.

Oh, may we remember, in the way God intends.
Help us live our lives not as one who pretends.
Please help me feast on Thy Sabbath day.
Blessed with vicissitude from Thy words, we pray.

The first vision, I commit to memory.
For, thus began all of the church history,
Joseph saw a pillar of light holy and bright.
He saw two personages, oh a heavenly sight.
He heard the Father say, “This is my Beloved Son.”
This stirs my soul to commitment and to action.

Oh may we remember how oft' God fills our mind.
Help us keep a record for us and mankind.
Oh, may our hearts be one, to remember Thee.
Of all that Thou has done, we acknowledge, to be.

- Marlin K. Jensen

Marlin K. Jensen, May 2007, “Remember and Perish Not, ” Ensign
Mosiah 4: 30
30 But this much I can tell you, that if ye do not watch yourselves, and your thoughts, and your words, and your deeds, and observe the commandments of God, and continue in the faith of what ye have heard concerning the coming of our Lord, even unto the end of your lives, ye must perish. And now, O man, remember, and perish not.