by kdm | Oct 18, 2024 | #discipline, agency, Choice, Revelation, spiritually strong, Today's Post
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...
by kdm | Oct 16, 2024 | #discipline, agency, fear, Learning?, Today's Post
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....
by kdm | Oct 14, 2024 | #discipline, agency, Choice, choices, Christ Ministry, Family, fear, Modern Prophets, Nurture, Revelation, spiritually strong, Today's Post
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...
by kdm | Oct 14, 2024 | #discipline, agency, Atonement, Choice, choices, Christ Ministry, fear, For times of trouble, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
John Bytheway taught:. A note of caution: Faith is not willing our desires into existence. That would be exercising faith in what we want. For example, many of us have experienced the death of a loved one and have concluded that if we only had more faith, the loved...
by kdm | Oct 13, 2024 | #discipline, agency, Choice, For times of trouble, spiritual workout, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
From William B. Smart’s book “Messages for a Happier Life”: In a quiet New England churchyard lies a headstone whose epitaph contains a profoundly important message—a goal—for all of us. Here lies a woman twice blessed; She was happy and...
by kdm | Oct 12, 2024 | #character, #discipline, agency, Choice, Christ Ministry, Family, fear, For times of trouble, Nurture, Revelation, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
Teachings of Jacob Z.Hess, Carrie L. Skarda, Kyle D. Anderson, Ty R. Mansfield, from their book “The Power of Stillness”: Relishing the present, of course, is not a foreign concept to Latter-day Saints. We just talk about it differently—focusing on...