The Secular Competes

The secular competes

With what is sacred to love

The later completes

Us to Father above

We are more than nature

Applied to reason

Our Spirits can mature

Earth is but a season

To Hold Sacred

• By Elder Paul B. Pieper
• April 2012 General Conference

.... The opposite of sacred is profane or secular—that which is temporal or worldly. The... ...our attention and priorities. Knowledge of the secular is essential for our daily temporal living.... ...the choice to place the sacred above the secular...