by kdm | Oct 13, 2020 | Today's Post
H. Burke Peterson said: As you develop your capacity to love unconditionally, remember that listening is part of showing love. [Make] your home. . . a home where children are listened to, even when what they say doesn’t seem important or you don’t feel you...
by kdm | Oct 12, 2020 | Today's Post
Form the book “Protecting Against Eternal Identify Theft:” “Have you ever given someone a gift that you took great pains to select, pay for, wrap, and deliver only to see it soon afterward neglected, destroyed or thoughtlessly discarded somewhere?...
by kdm | Oct 11, 2020 | Today's Post
Continuing now from “‘Things as They Really Are II'” and the first post of this series “Things as They Really Are I” the second post, Neal A. Maxwell from his book “Things as They Really Are” writes: “. . . the way for...
by kdm | Oct 10, 2020 | Today's Post
From his book ‘The Crossroads’ by Richard L. Evans: There is a profound thought in these words of William James: “The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.” 37 This...
by kdm | Oct 9, 2020 | Today's Post
Continuing from Neal A. Maxwell (yesterday’s post * Things as they really are I) “The masses feel that it is easy to flea from reality, when it is the most difficult thing in the world.” (Ortega Y. Gassett.) . . . . The prophet Moroni said,...
by kdm | Oct 8, 2020 | Today's Post
From his book “Things As They Really Are,” Neal A. Maxwell wrote: Having a basic sense of direction about life makes all the difference, because if we don’t understand things as they really are, then we may wrongly conclude that man is alone in the...
by kdm | Oct 7, 2020 | Today's Post
From the October 2020 Ensign, Elder Lawrence E. Corbridge, Emeritus Member of the Seventy shared: As part of an assignment I had as a General Authority a few years ago, I read through a great deal of material antagonistic to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day...
by kdm | Oct 6, 2020 | Today's Post
From the book “God is in the Small Stuff and it all matters:” Do you long for the simple life? many people do. It seems as if we’re all too busy, have too much stuff, and owe too many bills (mainly because we have too much stuff). If you’ve...
by kdm | Oct 5, 2020 | Today's Post
From Tadd R. Callister’s book ‘The Infinite Atonement:’ The repentant soul becomes as white as the driven snow. For such a saint it is as though the act were never committed.24 That is the miracle of repentance. As Elder Matthew Cowley said, “I...
by kdm | Oct 2, 2020 | Today's Post
I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings. I believe that the state we enter after death is wrought of our own motives, thoughts and deeds. I believe that in the life to come I shall have the senses I have not had here, and...