by kdm | Feb 20, 2023 | #character, #discipline, agency, For times of trouble, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
Continuing from Max Lucado and previous post: To prevent injury, the shepherd anoints the rams. He smears a slippery, greasy substance over the nose and head. This lubricant causes them to glance off rather than to crash into each other. They still tend to get hurt,...
by kdm | Feb 18, 2023 | #discipline, agency, Choice, Christ Ministry, For times of trouble, The Plan, Today's Post
From Brad Wilcox’s book of the above title: Brent Fillmore teaches at the Institute of Religion adjacent to Utah State University. When he speaks to classes of a covenant relationship, he talks about a stalactite hanging from the top of a cave dripping water on...
by kdm | Feb 16, 2023 | #discipline, agency, Choice, Modern Prophets, The Plan, Today's Post
Elder Jonathan S. Schmitt of the Seventy said in the Sunday afternoon session of October 2022 general conference: My earnest desire is that you will come to know Jesus by His many names and that you will become like Him. A few years ago, I had a life-changing...
by kdm | Feb 11, 2023 | #discipline, agency, Choice, For times of trouble, spiritually strong, Today's Post
From Max Lucado, his book ‘Traveling Light’: . . . We can follow the example of the apostle Paul. His goal was to be a missionary in Spain. Rather than send Paul to Spain, however, God sent him to prison. Sitting in a Roman jail. . . He said, “As...
by kdm | Feb 9, 2023 | #character, #discipline, agency, Choice, Christ Ministry, For times of trouble, spiritually strong, Today's Post
President Henry B. Eyring of the First Presidency said in the Sunday afternoon session of October 2022 general conference: As my mother told me when I complained of how hard something was, “Oh, Hal, of course it’s hard. It’s supposed to be. Life is a test.” She could...
by kdm | Feb 8, 2023 | #character, #discipline, agency, Christ Ministry, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
Continuing from Revealing Ourselves—Revealing God II and the book “The Holiness of Everyday Life” author Joan B. MacDonald shared: . . . . I work in a Hospital laboratory. The hospital is large, but the laboratory is isolated, with only fifteen...