by kdm | Oct 30, 2018 | Today's Post
I think of a child walking along the seashore with her father hand in hand. Often she’ll let go of her father’s hand to explore something… and then return. His hand is always there and ready. Most times she’ll approach things that are neither...
by kdm | Oct 29, 2018 | Today's Post
Elder Russell M. Nelson, our Prophet, as a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles wrote: “….As our great Exemplar, Jesus taught us how to live, to love and to learn. He taught us how to pray, to forgive, and to endure to the end.10 He taught us how to...
by kdm | Oct 28, 2018 | Today's Post
“If we lock ourselves in a prison of failure and self-pity, we are the only jailers… we have the only key to our freedom.”~Og Mandino “…don’t become frustrated because there are no obvious victories. Remind yourself that striving...
by kdm | Oct 27, 2018 | Today's Post
Elder J Devin Cornish of the Quorum of the Seventy wrote: By now you have had the opportunity to read the first several chapters of volume 1 of the new four-volume narrative history of the Church, Saints: The Story of the Church of Jesus Christ in the Latter Days. It...
by kdm | Oct 26, 2018 | Today's Post
If Jesus came to your house to spend a day or two If He came unexpectedly, I wonder what you’d do. Oh, I know you’d give your nicest to such an honored guest And all the food you’d serve to Him would be your very best. And you’d keep assuring...
by kdm | Oct 25, 2018 | Today's Post
From decades ago, still very relevant (if not more so) today… “Our youth are sometimes buffeted daily in Babylon beyond what we who are older know. They need at least rudimentary understanding of the plan of salvation, especially in their tender times of...
by kdm | Oct 24, 2018 | Today's Post
“We are too inclined to think of law as something merely restrictive—something hemming us in. We sometimes think of law as the opposite of liberty. But this is a false conception…. God does not contradict himself. He did not create man and then, as...
by kdm | Oct 23, 2018 | Today's Post
President Russell M. Nelson in his recently released book, “Teachings of Russell M. Nelson” p, 241 wrote: “Parents and teachers, learn to listen, then listen to learn from children. A wise father once said, “I do a greater amount of good when I...
by kdm | Oct 22, 2018 | Today's Post
* ‘Vital religion cannot be maintained and preserved on the theory that God dealt with our human race only in the far past ages, and that the Bible is the only evidence we have that our God is a living, revealing, communicating God. If God ever spoke, he is...
by kdm | Oct 22, 2018 | Today's Post
President J. Ruben Clark Jr. (a counselor to three presidents of the Church including President David O. McKay) pled, as he did many times—for unity in a general conference talk: warned us against being selective in what we will obey. He put it this way: The...