by kdm | Jun 22, 2017 | Today's Post
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...
by kdm | Jun 18, 2017 | Today's Post
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...
by kdm | Jun 16, 2017 | Today's Post
~ 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...
by kdm | Jun 13, 2017 | Today's Post
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...
by kdm | Jun 11, 2017 | Today's Post
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...
by kdm | Jun 7, 2017 | Today's Post
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....