The Importance of Personal Revelation
From the book of the above name, Larry W. Tippets shares: The ability to qualify for, receive, and act on personal revelation is this single most important skill that can be acted upon in this life. ~Julie B. Beck We can not overstate the importance of personal...* Sparrow Prayers
From Chieko Okazaki: We are commanded to pray, urged to pray, and promised absolutely that prayer will give us what we seek. The scriptures are full of miracles about answered prayers; but our personal lives, even though they contain examples of answered prayers,...* ‘Watchfulness as Wise Awareness’ / ‘Wrenching Our Very Heartstrings’
From the book, “The Power of Stillness by: ~Jacob Z. Hess, Carrie L. Skarda, Kyle D, Anderson, Ty R,Mansfield, The Power of Stillness (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2019) p.144-48 Salvation by Presence: Compared to relief through avoidance, both Buddhist...Are We Accepting What the Lord Gives Us?
Gerald N. Lund taught: Another possible answer to the question of why God doesn’t seem to be answering our prayers stems from our unwillingness to accept what the Lord gives Us. I had an experience as a bishop. A returned missionary in the ward had been home...* The Promise of Listening
From Mark Brady’s Book “The Wisdom of Listening”: PART ONE . . . . The Promise of Listening We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that something deep inside us is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch....Meekness
From his book, ‘The Meek and Lowly’ Neal A. Maxwell wrote: “The need for meekness is there in every setting, at every turn, and in every step! Throughout scripture we encounter the need for us to remember that the Lord has His own timetable for.... . . apple of the eye
Jeffrey R. Holland in his book ‘For Times of Trouble’ shared thoughts from Psalm 17:8, which reads: “Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings.” A world renowned authority on child development once said that every...“Be of Good Cheer”
From the book “What’s a Parent to Do?” by Glen I. Latham: During one of the darkest moments of Nephite history, when the wicked had vowed to slay the righteous if the sign of Christ’s birth did not “come to pass, which had been given by...* Comfort
From the book 50 Things That Really Matter to Latter-day Saints. . . (multiple authors) Alisha Geary writes: “As a child I was afraid of many things. Being alone in the dark or imagining the monsters under my bed would send be crying to my parents’...
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I am married and we have 3 children and many grandchildren. Our children have chosen wisely in their careers and in marriage and I attribute much of their success, as they do, to a close relationship with Jesus Christ… Click for more.