Welcome to the Recent Speaches Podcast presented by BYU Speaches, featuring inspiring new

devotionals and forums given each week on BYU campus. Be sure to check out our other podcasts

by searching BYU speeches wherever you get your podcasts or by visiting speeches.bYU.edu slash

podcasts.

This form address entitled, Faith and Flourishing in Your Life and Work, was given on July 29th of 2025 by Paul W.

Lambert, then Religion Initiative Director at the Wheatley Institute.

Thank you, Vice President Collings.

And thank you, President Reese and the BYU administration for this invitation to speak

today.

And to the students and my colleagues, thanks for being here.

Preparing to speak to you has been a truly humbling but also joyful experience.

I want to share a message today that will be particularly

valuable to you students. So I have done my best to put myself into your shoes. In fact, believe it

or not, I was in your shoes not that long ago. And here's proof. Yes, this is me the day my parents dropped me off for my first semester as a freshman here at

BYU.

See, I was in your shoes.

Well, maybe not precisely your shoes.

I haven't actually seen any BYU students sporting Adidas Superstar 2 shoes like I was my freshman year.

But I have seen many of you dressing like my older brothers did in the 90s. And so it's just a matter of time before you look

as stylish as I did in my freshman year. As a student here at BYU, there were several things I knew.

I knew I wanted to be successful in my chosen career and add value to the world around me. I knew I wanted to be successful in my chosen career and add value to the

world around me. I knew I wanted to be happy, not just have fun, but be truly happy. I knew I wanted

...