let them eat cookies

bitter feelings toward someone? hmmm. bake them cookies.

silly- yet effective. doorbell ditching them is even better.

simple and profound, the sweetness is sprinkled like snow-all around.

"If our service is to be most effacacious,

it must be accomplished for the love of God and the love of his children.

The Savior applied that principle on the Sermon on the Mount,

in which he commanded us to love our enemies-

bless them that curse us-

do good to them that hate us-

and pray for them that despitefully use us-

and persecute us." [Matt. 5:44]

". . .for if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye?

Do not even the publicans the same?

. . . And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others?" [Matt. 5:46-47]

"This principle- that our service should be for the love of God and the love of fellowmen

rather than for personal advantage or any other lesser motive-

is admittedly a high standard."

-Dallin H. Oaks Why Do We Serve? Oct. 1984