our promises to the Lord …

I was reluctant to share this* from Elder Joseph Fielding Smith written when he was an Apostle in the mid 1950’s and 15 years before he became the Lord’s Prophet. That was a time when the world was entirely different than now. It was relatively simple to...

life’s real essentials

I appreciate the following because it is so easy to get into the wrong perspective and stay there… for years, for decades. kdm Elder Boyd K. Packer said: “It is understood of almost everyone that success, to be complete, must include a generous portion of...

‘I, the Lord, am bound… ‘

~ Dr. Hugh Nibley quoting President Brigham Young said: ‘Right from the beginning the standard charge against Joseph and the Mormons was treason.  And why not? That was the only possible charge when the crime was simply a whole way of life.  “They accused...

reluctance to change… to serve?

Yesterday I listened to a BYU devotional from years ago where the speaker, when asking the Lord on what she should speak on, was told to speak on a part of her nature as a ‘reluctant servant’. I thought for her and then for myself, OUCH! That too often is...

‘Grace Works’… thus with humble fervor

I appreciate that because of my ‘very human’ nature, even when giving energy and purpose to my daily strivings (in harmony with the Lord’s will), I will invariably make multiple mistakes. At times they are even deliberate… for...

Temples

Our own body is the temple housing our spirit and we should treat it with great sacredness. (1 Corinthians 6:19)  The Temple (building) is the place to where those living a higher law, a more consecrated lifestyle, may go and leave behind worldly cares and concerns....

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