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...
by kdm | Oct 16, 2024 | #discipline, agency, fear, Learning?, Today's Post
From Mark Brady’s Book “The Wisdom of Listening”: PART ONE . . . . The Promise of Listening We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that something deep inside us is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch....
by kdm | Sep 15, 2024 | #character, agency, Atonement, Choice, choices, fear, For times of trouble, Learning?, Revelation, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
From Richard L. Evans and his book ‘The Man and the Message: It is interesting how, in reading scripture over and over again, one often, after many readings and a long time, quite unexpectedly, finds some word or phrase that comes into his consciousness with a...