Fish sticks and Halibut

On Sunday in my Sacrament meeting there was a talk that I really liked. The speaker told a story of being a picky eater when he was a child. His whole family knew he picky so they were amazed when they had Halibut and he liked it. For awhile they ate Halibut and he never got sick of it. Then one day someone in his family commented on how much he liked Halibut and asked him why. His simple reply as a child was "it tastes like fish sticks." Needless to say Mom stopped buying Halibut after that and bought matchsticks.

I thought the story illustrated his point perfectly. We need more simplicity in our lives. Are we always complicating things or are we trying to simplify things? Elder Uchtdorf in the last general conference talked about this subject in his talk entitled "Of Things That Matter Most." It was one of my favorites.


He counsels us "If life and its rushed pace and many stresses have made it difficult for you to feel like rejoicing, then perhaps now is a good time to refocus on what matters most." I think one of Satan's greatest tactics is to keep us busy and influence us to forget the important things. So are we filling our life with halibut or fish sticks?