D&C 88:124 Cease to be Idle

D&C 88:124
 124 Cease to be idle; cease to be unclean; cease to find fault one with another; cease to sleep longer than is needful; retire to thy bed early, that ye may not be weary; arise early, that your bodies and your minds may be invigorated.

Sonnet 813 D&C 88:124 Cease to be Idle

To “cease”, in general, means to desist
To put the brakes on something in a spin
To stop, to quit, to end. But here's the twist
To cease in idleness is to begin.

To overcome, by will, inertia's hold
Submitting to the Maker's call thereof
By actions calculated and so bold
They lift you up to works of faith and love.

Because the curse of idleness is not
The worst of all the ways to be untrue
Remember that unless our time is fraught
With good, that idleness might better do.

So go ahead and cease your idle ways
But don't replace your sloth with sinful days.