Grace, Duty, Patience and a Sense of Humor
Douglas P. Ridge
April 29, 2018
I begin by confessing that I will use in my talk material from a talk I gave exactly 11 years ago from this pulpit. Since I am sure that those of you who were present at that time remember every word of my previous discourse, I apologize for the repetition.
Mother’s Day Talk 2006 Douglas Poll Ridge
On important occasions when it is appropriate to honor important people we sometimes quote from the 44th chapter of Ecclesiasticus which says “Let us now praise famous men and our fathers who begat us.” I would like to take as my text a similar passage that is not in the scriptures but should be, “Let us now praise famous women and our mothers who gave us birth.”
This talk was given July 10, 2022 in the Newark 3rd Ward Wilmington Delaware Stake. It contains quotes and summaries from an American Legion Contest Oration from 1961; a sacrament meeting talk from 1996 on the families of Robert, Alfred, Alfred Jr. and Douglas Ridge; and the talk on my South African mission which was the basis of the 2001 Sunstone article linked in a previous entry. The bracketed italicized passages were not read when the talk was given.
This talk was given by invitation at a Sunstone Symposium in Washington DC organized by Mike Harward. It was the basis for an article in the July 2001 issue of Sunstone Magazine.
