by kdm | Nov 11, 2024 | #character, #discipline, agency, Choice, Christ Ministry, Family, fear, For times of trouble, Learning?, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
From the book “The Wisdom of Listening” ~ Margaret Truxaw (edited by Mark Brady): (continued from: Much of the downside of not being fully heard, understood and received deeply is readily evident in modern culture. But what of the other side, the positive, beneficial,...
by kdm | Nov 5, 2024 | #character, #discipline, agency, Choice, choices, Christ Ministry, Family, fear, For times of trouble, Learning?, Nurture, Revelation, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
Quoting from Bruce C. Hafen and a previous post ‘The Value of the Veil’: . . . . the first graduate of the “Do It Without Practice Piano Course” walks out onto the stage of Carnegie Hall to perform his debut with the orchestra, what do you...
by kdm | Nov 3, 2024 | #character, #discipline, agency, Atonement, choices, Christ Ministry, fear, For times of trouble, Learning?, Nurture, Revelation, spiritual workout, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
From Bruce C. Hafen’s book “The Believing Heart”: One of the clearest—yet at times the most perplexing—themes in the history of God’s dealings with mankind involves his decision to draw a veil between our world of mortality and his...
by kdm | Nov 1, 2024 | #discipline, agency, Atonement, Choice, Christ Ministry, For times of trouble, Learning?, Modern Prophets, Revelation, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
From Spencer W. Kimball and the book “A Year of Powerful Prayer”: In our prayers there must be no glossing over, no hypocrisy, since there can be no deception. The Lord knows our true condition. Do we tell the Lord how good we are, or how weak? We stand...
by kdm | Oct 31, 2024 | #character, #discipline, agency, Atonement, Choice, Christ Ministry, Family, fear, For times of trouble, Learning?, Modern Prophets, Nurture, Revelation, spiritually strong, Today's Post
From the book “What’s a Parent to Do?” by Glen L. Latham: A Christlike standard of parenting is set forth to us in the early commitment to family made by Boyd and Donna Packer: [Donna and Boyd] decided that their mutual occupation would be their...
by kdm | Oct 25, 2024 | #character, #discipline, agency, Choice, fear, For times of trouble, Learning?, spiritual workout, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
Continuing from Flexibility II, and Jerry Sittser’s book ‘the Will of God as a Way of Life’: When I was nineteen years old, my best friend, Jerry Keizer, and I decided to take the “great American road trip.” We left in early July from...