by kdm | Dec 4, 2020 | Today's Post
From Elder Henry B. Eyring’s book “To Draw Closer to God:” “We may be tempted to be too indirect in bearing of testimony. You do not have to speak loudly or long. But you must be clear. President Gordon B. Hinkley put that as plainly as it can be put. He said: “Teach...
by kdm | Dec 3, 2020 | Today's Post
Richard L. Evans wrote. . . “In some ways, time heals and softens the sharpness of many sorrows, but the sharpness of separation from loved ones can become acute at any time, as any moment may bring its own reminders of them—especially as the years...
by kdm | Dec 2, 2020 | Today's Post
From Robert L. Millet, his book, ′The Holy Spirit:′ “Unshaken faith in the work of the Lord. Isn’t that what each of us most desires in the midst of a world filled with snide cynicism and religious skepticism? Knowing the truth and knowing that you know, bring...
by kdm | Dec 1, 2020 | Today's Post
Elder Dean L. Larsen said: ¨Sometimes we focus too much of out attention and energy upon our temporal wants, not only to entertain ourselves and gratify our physical appetites, but also to gain recognition, position and power. We can become so consumed by the pursuit...
by kdm | Nov 30, 2020 | Today's Post
From his book ¨The Smallest Part of which I feel”(1973) under the chapter titled: “A View of Morality,” Neal A. Maxwell wrote: Psychologist Allen Bergin has written perceptively about a view of life and morality in the gospel context: ¨The ideal of...
by kdm | Nov 29, 2020 | Today's Post
When the murky shadows of the everyday battles of life cause us to call out in the dark, the Savior will come and with him bring light. He knows our battles. He understands our fear and discouragement. His is the ultimate empathy. . . . As we go through life we learn...
by kdm | Nov 28, 2020 | Today's Post
From the last chapter of the book “The Power of Stillness:” And Following a previous post, “A Confusing Place”. . . . As we’ve outlined here, there may be another way to sit with our faith, even in its most flat, uninspiring, confusing, and painful...
by kdm | Nov 27, 2020 | Today's Post
From the last chapter of the book “The Power of Stillness:” A Confusing Place A couple who had spent most of their lives as active Latter-Day Saints asked to meet privately with their local leader about some spiritual concerns: “Is this it, Bishop?...
by kdm | Nov 26, 2020 | Today's Post
James E. Talmage wrote: Christ’s agony in the garden is unfathomable by the finite mind, both as to intensity and cause. . . . He struggled and groaned under a burden such as no other being who has lived on earth might even conceive as possible. It was not...
by kdm | Nov 25, 2020 | Today's Post
Ezra C. Dalby wrote of Joseph Smith: “In 1830 I became intimately acquainted with the prophet Joseph Smith, and continued intimately acquainted with him until the day of his death. I had the great privilege . . . of boarding. . .at his house so that I not only...