The Idea of Christ

Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote:

Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions. After looking at the Alps, I felt that my mind had been stretched beyond the limits of its elasticity, and fitted so loosely on my old ideas of space that I had to spread these to fit it. (The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, Chapter XI)

This is how I feel after reading Elder Neal A. Maxwell's article "Enduring Well" in the April 1997 issue of the Ensign magazine.

Perhaps the most precious books we have are the four Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John in the New Testament.  As we study them and learn of this man/God Jesus Christ, and accept (on faith in abundant witnesses) Him as real and not just fiction; our conception of the world, how we view others in it, our purpose here, and our potential — is stretched in just the way Mr. Holmes describes seeing the Alps.