The True Work

Helping others become more

A Small Witness from This Morning (22 Jan 2026)

In recent days, I have been putting my life in better order — rising earlier, changing habits, reclaiming time that once slipped away.
What feels like a small discipline has, in truth, added hours to my day.

This morning, as I sat with the quiet before my children awoke, I looked at the open stretch of time ahead of me.
My instinct was familiar: catch up on writing, make progress, produce something.

But as I pondered how to use this unexpected gift of time, I felt a gentle impression:
Spend the largest portion of today with your children.

Not as a break from the work.
But as the work itself.

Later, while cleaning up old posts during a migration from a previous platform, I rediscovered the very image now featured at the top of this post — buried, nearly forgotten, waiting.

It felt like a second witness.
A quiet confirmation.
A reminder that God had already been teaching me what mattered most.

The desk matters.
The writing matters.
The public work matters.

But forming souls — especially the ones entrusted to me at home — matters more.

Fellow Disciple,

Some days faith feels like fire.
Some days it feels like water.

And some days, faith looks like this —
quiet instruction, patient presence, shaping a soul that does not yet know who they are becoming.

The world tells you your work is what you produce.
God tells you your work is who you help become.

The world teaches you to swim so you can survive.
Christ teaches you to walk on water so you can lift His children.

You are not here merely to earn, achieve, or endure.
You are here to co-labor with the Father in forming sons and daughters of God —
first in your home,
then in your community,
and ultimately to the housetops.

No Success Can Compensate for Failure in the Home

President David O. McKay taught:

“No success can compensate for failure in the home.”

Yes — my desk matters.
Yes — my labor provides.
Yes — my work funds stewardship.

But my real work is not what happens on a screen.

My real work is helping God’s children come to know Him —
most notably in my home,
and then beyond it.

The modern altar may look like a laptop.
But God’s altar often looks like a dinner table, a bedtime prayer, a scripture conversation, a child learning truth by watching love in action.

The World Teaches Swimming

The world trains you to survive the water.

Be productive.
Be impressive.
Be busy.
Be applauded.

It teaches you to paddle harder, tread longer, and call exhaustion “faithfulness.”

But you are not a fish.

You were not born merely to survive the current.
You were born to rise above it.

Like a craftsman shaping leather, the Father is forming something enduring in you.

Not ornamental.
Not disposable.
Not temporary.

He is crafting sons and daughters fit for inheritance.

Every pressure refines.
Every cut shapes.
Every surrender purifies.

Before you lift others,
He forms you.

You Are Not Just a Worker — You Are a Shepherd

We labor.
We build.
We sell.
We produce.

But that is not our identity.

Your career may fund your calling,
but your calling defines your identity.

You are not merely earning a living.
You are shepherding influence.
Guarding hearts.
Modeling discipleship.
Leading souls toward God.

Your children are not interruptions to your mission.
They are your mission.

Your influence — at home and beyond — shapes eternity.

Discover Your Talent — Then Cast It

God did not give you gifts to bury.

He gave them to develop.
To share.
To multiply.
To serve.

Swimming keeps you alive.
But your gift exists to lift others.

Your talent is not for applause.
Not for ego.
Not for status.

It is for service.
For rescue.
For building the Kingdom.
For publishing peace — in word, deed, example, and love.

Transformation Is Not Optimization

The world teaches improvement.
Christ teaches rebirth.

Not hustle.
Not productivity hacks.
Not image management.
Not personal branding.

This is sanctification.
This is consecration.
This is the refining of the soul into something holy.

Pain becomes power.
Weakness becomes strength.
Effort becomes worship.
Wounds become wisdom.

Not through grinding.
But through yielding.

True work is inner work.

The natural man does not become sovereign.
He becomes subject to God —
not to shrink,
but to rise.

Take His Yoke — The Secret to Greater Works

You cannot walk on water by human strength.
And you cannot raise God’s children without being yoked to Christ.

His yoke does not crush you.
It heals you.

It steadies weary hearts.
Magnifies your reach.
Empowers you to carry what you cannot carry alone.

And when you walk with Him —
you rise beyond survival
into stewardship,
inheritance,
and eternal impact.

You Were Not Born to Swim

You were born to walk on water.

Not merely to be honorable.
Not merely to be moral.
Not merely to be respectable.

But to do greater works.
To help souls come to know God.
To raise His children.
To publish peace — first at home, then to the world.

Your friend,

Kent
Publish Peace. Now.

Originally published 29 Nov 2025—refreshed 22 Jan 2026