by kdm | Jul 7, 2015 | Today's Post
“Love is not getting, but giving, not a wild dream of pleasure, and madness of desire… it is goodness, and honor, and peace and pure living.” ~Henry Van Dyke Henry Van Dyke speaks here of romantic love. I have noticed that in constantly deepening of...
by kdm | Jul 6, 2015 | Today's Post
The gospel teaches us that we are all created for a happiness that endures. How can more of us achieve it? We… read in Mosiah 2:41 that we “should consider on the blessed and happy state of those that keep the commandments of God. For behold, they are blessed in...
by kdm | Jul 3, 2015 | Today's Post
In daily living and prayer we are subject to three primary voices: our self talk, the Lord speaking to us, and the adversary and his minions (which really can become a multitude of voices, if we listen and follow them). First: We self talk almost constantly while we...
by kdm | Jul 1, 2015 | Today's Post
“Plato once rebuked a person for engaging in a gambling game. And when the person protested that he had only played for a ‘trifle,’ Plato replied: “The habit is not a trifle.” ~Plato When I look at my past, even back to my youth,...
by kdm | Jun 29, 2015 | Today's Post
“I am bold to declare before Heaven that I am just as ready to die in defending the rights of a Presbyterian, a Baptist, or a good man of any other denomination [as for a Mormon]; for the same principle which would trample upon the rights of the Latter-day Saints...
by kdm | Jun 26, 2015 | Today's Post
“You cannot run away from a weakness. You must sometime fight it out or perish. And if it be so, why not now and where you stand?” ~Robert Louis Stevenson Weaknesses clutter our lives slowing/stopping our progress toward worthwhile goals. Should we...