by kdm | May 10, 2024 | #character, #discipline, agency, Choice, Christ Ministry, For times of trouble, Modern Prophets, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
From Elder Boyd K. Packer of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles and his book ‘in Wisdom and in Order’: A number of years ago I went with a brother to tow a wrecked car. It was a single-car accident and the car was demolished; the driver, though unhurt, had...
by kdm | May 9, 2024 | #character, #discipline, agency, Choice, Christ Ministry, For times of trouble, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
Gene R. Cook taught: There is another way to express this principle. Pray as though everything depends on the Lord, then work as though everything depends on you. . . . When we obtain blessings from the Lord, it is not just because of the work we do. The work...
by kdm | May 8, 2024 | #character, #discipline, Choice, For times of trouble, Modern Prophets, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
From Jeffrey R. Holland and his book “For Times of Trouble” Psalms 18:36; 94:18-19 Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, that my feet did not slip. When I said, My foot slippeth; thy mercy, O Lord held me up. In the multitude of my thoughts within me...
by kdm | May 7, 2024 | #character, #discipline, agency, Choice, Christ Ministry, For times of trouble, Modern Prophets, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
From Neal A. Maxwell and his book “All These Things Shall Give Thee Experience”: We must not approach God as if He were somehow constrained by finite knowledge and by time. A useful and illustrative episode is the one involving the prophet Elisha and his...
by kdm | May 6, 2024 | #character, #discipline, Choice, Christ Ministry, For times of trouble, Modern Prophets, The Plan, Today's Post
From “Thoughts for One-Hundred Days”, Richard L. Evans wrote: A thoughtful physician remarked: “I used to think of impatience as simply a natural part of some peoples personality, but over the years I have come to conclude that habitual impatience is...
by kdm | May 5, 2024 | #discipline, agency, Choice, For times of trouble, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
Continuing from a previous post and Kathy K. Clayton’s book, “Teaching to Build and Faithfulness”: It was summer. The swimsuit season was in full tilt and those young women and others like them were making decisions about how covered (or uncovered)...