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This devotional address entitled The Illusive Balance was given on March 25th of

1986 by Glenn L. Pace, then second counselor of the presiding bishopric of the Church of

Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Have any of you ever, as you sit up there so nice and comfortable, in fact, you all

look too comfortable to me right now?

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to stand at this pulpit as you've watched

the brethren come and make their various presentations? I can remember down at the George Albert Smith Fieldhouse some 25 years ago,

coming to assemblies and wondering what it would be like.

It's not as bad as you think. It's worse.

I saw men at the George Albert Smith Fieldhouse like David O. McKay, Joseph Fielding Smith,

J. Ruben Clark, Harold B. Lee, Spencer W. Kimble, Ezra Taff Benson, Mark E. Peterson,

Marion G. Romney, and McGrane Richards. Those are some who I remember

speaking. Then when you get up here, you begin to wonder exactly what can I say, which

perhaps hasn't already been said by so many others in such an excellent manner.

Following these, brethren, make it so that I can't resist telling you a little story,

which happened to me here in Provo.

I've been told, be careful what stories you tell at BYU because once you've given them and they're on television,

you can never use them again.

I've got about as much mileage out of this one as I can get, so I'll put the death nail in the coffin and give it one more time.

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