by kdm | Oct 7, 2024 | #character, #discipline, agency, Family, fear, For times of trouble, Nurture, spiritually strong, Today's Post
From Kathy Clayton and her book “Teaching to Build and Faithfulness”: A young woman was a promising student in every way. Her parents and teachers applauded her natural intellect and personal tenacity that marked her academic progress from an early age....
by kdm | Oct 4, 2024 | #discipline, agency, Atonement, choices, Christ Ministry, Family, For times of trouble, Revelation, The Plan, Today's Post
From before, Adam S. Miller writes: Nothing is more enabling than life itself. A world filled with life is a world radiating grace. . . . Continuing from the chapter: “Creation” and his book “Original Grace: Elder Bruce R. McConkie frames the plan of...
by kdm | Oct 3, 2024 | #discipline, agency, choices, fear, For times of trouble, Nurture, Revelation, spiritually strong, Temple, Today's Post
Chieko N. Okazaki wrote: If you are the one experiencing the problem, you can pray for an easing of the burden, even if you cannot be delivered form it. And this step is particularly applicable if you know about a problem someone else is experiencing. You may not know...
by kdm | Oct 2, 2024 | #discipline, agency, choices, Christ Ministry, For times of trouble, Revelation, spiritual workout, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
Continuing the book “The Power of Stillness”: by Jacob Z. Hess, Carrie L. Skarda, Kyle D. Anderson, Ty R. Mansfield: Rather than something to get done or merely “say,” experience prayer as a deeper, embodied practice by retreating away from...
by kdm | Oct 1, 2024 | #discipline, agency, choices, fear, For times of trouble, Revelation, spiritual workout, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
From the book “The Power of Stillness”:. . . .Jacob Z. Hess, Carrie L. Skarda, Kyle D. Anderson, Ty R. Mansfield Joseph Smith taught that part of the first principle of the gospel was “to know that we may converse with [God] as one man converses with...
by kdm | Sep 30, 2024 | Today's Post
From the book “No Wonder They Call Him the Savior”, Max Lucado shared: When I was ten years old, I had a puppy named Tina. You would have loved her. She was a perfect pet. An irresistible, pug-nosed Pekingese pup. She never tired of playing and yet never...
by kdm | Sep 29, 2024 | Today's Post
From the book “Original Grace”, Adam S. Miller shares: If God’s grace is an active and original cause—rather than a passive and belated effect—then what is grace? The morning my father died, I felt Benjamin’s nothingness. I felt it...
by kdm | Sep 28, 2024 | Today's Post
From Bruce C. Hafen’s book: ‘The Believing Heart’ . . . .: I have intentionally tried to suggest a wide variety of instances in which the answers we may seek are not as obvious as we might have expected. My suggestion is that some uncertainty is...
by kdm | Sep 27, 2024 | Today's Post
From Patricia T. Holland: [Prayer] ought not to seem just a convenient and contrived miracle, for if we are to search for real light and eternal certainties, we have to pray as the ancients prayed. We are. . . . not children, and are expected to pray with maturity....
by kdm | Sep 26, 2024 | Today's Post
On a certain day the disciples asked Jesus how to pray. He not only gave them a model prayer but also taught them through a parable to seek God—as a friend at midnight—with “importunity” (Luke 11:8). The verb importune means “to request...