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...
by kdm | Jan 29, 2025 | #character, #discipline, agency, Atonement, Choice, Christ Ministry, Family, fear, For times of trouble, Learning?, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
Continuing from “Coming Together To Be (Un)comfortable” from the book “The Power of Stillness”. . . Notice stories or labels you carry around for other people, and how they inadvertently establish all manner of “-ites” (4 Nephi...
by kdm | Jan 28, 2025 | #character, #discipline, agency, Atonement, Christ Ministry, Family, fear, For times of trouble, Learning?, Nurture, Revelation, spiritual workout, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
From the book “The Power of Stillness”: It is common for us to talk about the aim of Church gatherings to be uplifting, comforting and consoling our spirits. Although these are things we all understandably want, what happens when the opposite happens, and...
by kdm | Jan 26, 2025 | #character, #discipline, agency, Choice, choices, Christ Ministry, Family, For times of trouble, Learning?, Modern Prophets, Nurture, Revelation, spiritually strong, Today's Post
From the Doctrine and Covenants section 121, verses 33 to 46: Preamble to this section: Prayer and prophecies written by Joseph Smith the Prophet in an epistle to the Church while he was a prisoner in the jail at Liberty, Missouri, dated March 20, 1839. The Prophet...