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podcasts or by visiting speeches dot BYU.edu slash podcasts. This devotional address entitled Giving All Our Heart to Christ was given on

October 1st of 2024 by Shema Bauman, then Woodruff J. Deem Professor of Law at the BYU Law School

and a distinguished fellow at the Wheatley Institute.

I'm so humble to be speaking to you all today and I pray for the spirit that was so strongly brought by

Kylie, Molly, and Luke to remain with us and to imprint on your hearts the message that you need to feel.

I've had the honor of being back at BYU this year after 10 years at the University of Utah,

and I frequently get emotional when I come to this building to watch a

devotional. I am in awe of all of you walking from across campus to this building

without compulsion with no grade at the end, and in such great numbers.

I know that the future is bright for the Lord's Church because I see him reflected in your faces. You all appear much wiser and more mature

than I was at your age. When I was an undergrad at BYU, my roommate discovered that late on a Saturday night

Einstein bagels threw away the bagels that didn't get sold that day

in a clear plastic bag that could easily be reached by jumping into the dumpster behind the store.

At first, my roommates and I would feast on these delicious bagels ourselves, but over time we felt selfish keeping this bounty all to ourselves

and decided to place these bagels on trays and deliver them to relief society the next morning for all the sisters in the Provo

97th War to enjoy.

No one asked where we acquired them and we thought it better to not offer that information.

While perhaps misguided I can safely say that our hearts were in the right place.

Which brings me to my topic today, the heart.

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