Sabbath Devotional :: Hózhó (Balance and Beauty)

I recently attended an organ concert at the ASU LDS Institute and one of the pieces played was composed by a Navajo man named Connor Chee. The composer shares that in the Navajo culture the idea of balance and beauty “binds all things together in the universe.” I’ve always been drawn to the idea of opposition to keep balance in the world.

We are reminded about this in 2 Nephi 2:11 “For it must needs be, that there is an opposition in all things. . . . neither wickedness, neither holiness nor misery, neither good nor bad. Wherefore, all things must needs be a compound in one; wherefore, if it should be one body it must needs remain as dead, having no life neither death, nor corruption nor incorruption, happiness nor misery, neither sense nor insensibility.”

In celebration and observance of American Indian Heritage Month, I invite you to listen to this music and think about the balance we can find during trying times in our world and to give thanks for the beauty we can enjoy through trials.