by kdm | May 7, 2024 | #character, #discipline, agency, Choice, Christ Ministry, For times of trouble, Modern Prophets, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
From Neal A. Maxwell and his book “All These Things Shall Give Thee Experience”: We must not approach God as if He were somehow constrained by finite knowledge and by time. A useful and illustrative episode is the one involving the prophet Elisha and his...
by kdm | May 6, 2024 | #character, #discipline, Choice, Christ Ministry, For times of trouble, Modern Prophets, The Plan, Today's Post
From “Thoughts for One-Hundred Days”, Richard L. Evans wrote: A thoughtful physician remarked: “I used to think of impatience as simply a natural part of some peoples personality, but over the years I have come to conclude that habitual impatience is...
by kdm | May 5, 2024 | #discipline, agency, Choice, For times of trouble, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
Continuing from a previous post and Kathy K. Clayton’s book, “Teaching to Build and Faithfulness”: It was summer. The swimsuit season was in full tilt and those young women and others like them were making decisions about how covered (or uncovered)...
by kdm | May 3, 2024 | #character, #discipline, agency, Choice, Christ Ministry, For times of trouble, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
Kathy C. Clayton form her book “Teaching to Build Faith and Faithfulness” taught: “Teach them correct principles and let them govern themselves.”1 Joseph Smith’s oft-quoted explanation of his theory of governance has long been a mantra...
by kdm | May 2, 2024 | #character, #discipline, agency, Choice, Christ Ministry, For times of trouble, Modern Prophets, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
. . . . and his book ‘For Times of Trouble’: he quotes from Psalms 18:2, 30; 61:2, 62:6 The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower. . . . As...
by kdm | May 1, 2024 | #character, agency, Choice, Christ Ministry, spiritually strong, The Plan
From Martha Branigan-Sutton and the book 50 things that really matter to Latter-day Saints: I remember doing customary “clapping” outside a forlorn slum in Argentina as a sister missionary. The makeshift houses were made of corrugated steel and scrap wood...
by kdm | Apr 30, 2024 | #character, #discipline, agency, Choice, Christ Ministry, For times of trouble, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
From Max Lucado and his book “No Wonder They Called Him the Savior”: I’ve always perceived John as a fellow who viewed life simply. “Right is right and wrong is wrong, and things aren’t nearly as complicated as we make them out to...
by kdm | Apr 29, 2024 | #character, #discipline, agency, Choice, For times of trouble, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
Continuing from ‘Peace be Unto Thy Soul III’: Joseph L. Bishop writes: I could also easily understand that there can be a variety of trigger points to every level of Kubler-Ross’s five stages of grief, waiting in the shadows to set off grief in...
by kdm | Apr 28, 2024 | #character, #discipline, Choice, Christ Ministry, For times of trouble, Modern Prophets, The Plan, Today's Post
But blessed are they who have kept the covenant and observed the commandment, for they shall obtain mercy. (Doctrine and Covenants 54:6) From his book, DAILY JOY, Russell M. Nelson teaches: A covenant made with God is not restrictive, but protective. Such a concept...
by kdm | Apr 27, 2024 | #character, #discipline, agency, Choice, For times of trouble, Modern Prophets, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
From Neal A. Maxwell and his book “All These Things Shall Give Thee Experience”: Afflictions can soften us, sweeten us, and can be a chastening influence. (Alma 62:41.) We often think of chastening as something being done to punish us by a mortal tutor who...