Beauty From Ashes

Marie Hafen wrote: The Gospel of Jesus Christ was not given us to prevent our pain. That is the promise of the scriptures: Atonement cannot only heal us but it can sanctify our trying experiences to our growth. . . . This healing, strengthening power is not a vague...

* On Our Own

Preamble note: This (again is from) ‘yesterdecade.’ True and elevating principles never die, but live in the lives and minds of the honest in heart. Richard L. Evans wrote: We once heard a father and his son discussing a situation in which there was some...

How Study Can Lift Our Souls

Larry W. Tippetts from his book ‘Receiving Personal Revelation’ shared: From My Journal—Scripture Study “When I started my scripture study this morning I was doing so out of obedience to a spiritual exercise I committed to follow. I was not...

* On Influencing Others

Since the following was written in the 1950’s the context of gender was (and can be still today) that the term ‘man’ refers to both genders equally. Richard L. Evans wrote: Fashion is one evidence of the influence people have on other people. Just...

* To My Friends of Other Faiths

From Elder Jeffrey R. Holland, from Chapter 11 of his book To My Friends — Messages of Counsel and Comfort In addressing friends of other faiths, my purpose is not to make some sort of ecumenical statement. We are all who we are, and we believe what we believe....

Helping Change to Occur

From Neal A. Maxwell’s book, ‘Helping Change to Occur’ Learning rests on desire. In Chapter 32 of Alma we read that even if we can do “no more than desire to believe” we must let this desire “work” in us. Desire, however, is...

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