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Developing Eyes to See | C. Shane Reese | January 2024

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🗓️ 10 January 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

To become the BYU of prophesy, we must have eyes to see the world through a gospel lens, see others as God does, and see our divine identity. C. Shane Reese, president of Brigham Young University, delivered this devotional address on January 9, 2024. You can access it here.

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Welcome to the recent speeches podcast presented by BYU speeches

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featuring inspiring new devotional and forums given each week on BYU campus.

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Be sure to check out our other podcasts by searching BYU speeches wherever you get your

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podcasts or by visiting speeches dot BYU.edu.

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podcast. This devotional address entitled Developing Eyes to See was given on January 9th of

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2024 by C. Shane Reese, President of Brigham Young University.

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Wendy and I are thrilled to have you back on campus.

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We've missed seeing your bright faces.

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We've missed attending events with you,

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and we're looking forward to a fantastic semester with all of its promise and hope.

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I'm particularly grateful to have my wife by my side.

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Over the break, she and I celebrated our 30th anniversary together and I

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thank I love her even more today than I did 30 years ago. One of us has aged well the other one less so.

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I'll leave it to you to figure out which one is which.

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She truly is the love of my life.

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She's the perfect example of a doer of the word. Without question, the best decision I have made in my life was to marry Wendy Wood in the

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Mantide temple.

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She is such an example to me of one. was to Mary Wendy Wood in the Mantide temple.

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She is such an example to me of one who has a strong testimony of the restored Gospel of Jesus Christ and lives that testimony

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by her daily efforts to serve and to love those with whom she comes in contact.

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I am so much better because I'm sealed to her for all time and eternity.

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I love you Wendy. You have each been on my mind and in my

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