by kdm | Feb 6, 2025 | #character, #discipline, agency, Atonement, Choice, choices, Christ Ministry, Family, For times of trouble, Learning?, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
Under the title “A Meaning That Suffering Can’t Take form You” Timothy Keller wrote: In “A Confession” Leo Tolstoy tells how he was leading a very successful life until around the age fifty he began to realize that every loved one would...
by kdm | Feb 5, 2025 | #discipline, agency, Atonement, Choice, choices, Christ Ministry, fear, For times of trouble, Modern Prophets, Revelation, spiritual workout, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
Elder Henry B. Eyring of the First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints wrote some years ago: The love of John Taylor for the Prophet Joseph Smith can easily be felt in the words he wrote about him. The prophet had been martyred. John Taylor...
by kdm | Feb 4, 2025 | #discipline, agency, Atonement, Choice, choices, Christ Ministry, fear, For times of trouble, Learning?, Revelation, spiritual workout, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
From the book “A Year of Powerful Prayer”: We are here to learn the lesson, also, that we are here to do the will of the Father. And how do we discover his will? How do we find Him? Pascal gave us a line: “You would not seek me had you not found...
by kdm | Feb 3, 2025 | #discipline, agency, Atonement, Choice, Christ Ministry, Today's Post
2. Continuing from a previous post “*Not Half Way” Brigham Young spoke similarly and emphatically about how all of life’s daily moments are to be used, however ordinary and simple these moments may seem to be: “It is the aggregate of the acts...
by kdm | Feb 2, 2025 | #character, #discipline, agency, Atonement, Choice, Christ Ministry, Family, fear, For times of trouble, Learning?, Modern Prophets, Nurture, Today's Post
From Jeffrey R Holland and his book “For Times of Trouble”: It would be nice if life were so calm and consistent that we never had occasion to feel discouraged. If there were no tribulations in our lives, no difficult or taxing circumstances that consumed...
by kdm | Jan 30, 2025 | #character, #discipline, agency, Atonement, Choice, choices, Christ Ministry, fear, For times of trouble, Learning?, Nurture, spiritual workout, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
From the Book “C.S. Lewis, The Man and His Message”: Gilbert Meilanender wrote well of Lewis in the fall 1998 issue of First Things, saying, “Every choice counts. Every choice contributes to determining what we ultimately love.”9 C.S. Lewis...