by kdm | Mar 28, 2019 | Today's Post
Thomas S, Monson said in December 1990: “The formula for finding Jesus has always been and ever will be the same—the earnest and sincere prayer of a humble and pure heart. The prophet Jeremiah counseled, “Ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for...
by kdm | Mar 27, 2019 | Today's Post
(I apologize regarding yesterdays post * Environment. When I returned home from work last night I felt inclined to reread it and found I had left out some important words in the second paragraph.) Continuing from two days ago, the ‘Parable of the Sower I’....
by kdm | Mar 26, 2019 | Today's Post
Neal A. Maxwell wrote: The instructions to Adam and Eve about the garden earth . . . have not been rescinded. They were, and are, to dress it—not destroy it. They were to take good care of it instead of abusing it. Our increasing interdependence on this planet...
by kdm | Mar 25, 2019 | Today's Post
Elder Dallin H. Oaks of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles said in a Conference talk of April 2015: “The parable of the sower is one of a small number of parables reported in all three of the synoptic Gospels. It is also one of an even smaller group of parables...
by kdm | Mar 24, 2019 | Today's Post
Russell M. Nelson said, “It takes great wisdom and courage to make correct judgments concerning religious freedom for all people…. Societies are governed by civil and criminal statutes that must apply uniformly to all within the borders of their nations....
by kdm | Mar 23, 2019 | Today's Post
Russell M. Nelson said: “Have you ever wondered why the Master waited so long to inaugurate the promised ‘restitution of all things’ (Acts 3:21)? Any competitor knows the disadvantage of allowing any opponent to get too far ahead. Wouldn’t the...
by kdm | Mar 22, 2019 | Today's Post
The natural life in each of us is something self-centered, something that wants to be petted and admired. . . . And especially it wants to be left to itself: to keep well away from anything better or stronger or higher than it, anything that might make it feel small....
by kdm | Mar 21, 2019 | Today's Post
Elder Russell M. Nelson, as a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, said: “I remember vividly an experience I had as a passenger in a small two-propeller airplane. One of the engines suddenly burst open and caught on fire. The propeller of the flaming...
by kdm | Mar 20, 2019 | Today's Post
“Every motion of the constantly shifting bodies in the world is timed to the occasion for some definite, foreordained end. The flowers blossom in obedience to the same law that marks the course of constellations . . . Nature is one, and to me the greatest...
by kdm | Mar 19, 2019 | Today's Post
Elder Jack N. Gerard of the Seventy said in October 2018 General Conference: “….The Savior cautioned us to “take heed … lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with … cares of this life” (Luke 21:34). Modern revelation reminds us that many are called,...