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Pugh. This devotional address entitled Illuminating Your Place in God's masterpiece

was given on July 16 of 2024 by Tanya H. Fischio, then the Assistant Dean of Communications for the College of Life Sciences.

What a privilege it is to be here with you today.

I would like to briefly share with you the spiritual experience that accompanied this assignment.

When I said yes to giving a BYU devotional, the spirit descended on me what I can only explain is a wish for

immediately I felt the immense love that God has for all of you. And I felt the magnitude of this responsibility to share a

meaningful message that invites the spirit during this time which has been

specifically reserved and dedicated for you to take a break from your studies and allow the Holy Ghost to be the master teacher.

My words, they're not nearly as important as the message that the Holy Ghost wants to impress upon your heart today.

I pray that together we may cherish his gentle whisperings. Today I want to talk to you about reflecting the

light of Christ in your journey of becoming you. As new temples continue to

dot the land they add such light and joy. I particularly like to see

the stained glass windows, each design unique to that temple. I love how the images add local significance as they reflect the beauty of God's

creations specific to that area like the Hibiscus flower that you can find in

the La'ihui temple and the olive leaves that intertwined throughout the Romidili temple.

I was recently told that if you were to remove the building structure of the new Orm temple,

all of the windows would combine to make one giant, beautiful cherry tree.

These images, they magnify God's hand in the world around us.

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