by kdm | Feb 2, 2025 | #character, #discipline, agency, Atonement, Choice, Christ Ministry, Family, fear, For times of trouble, Learning?, Modern Prophets, Nurture, Today's Post
From Jeffrey R Holland and his book “For Times of Trouble”: It would be nice if life were so calm and consistent that we never had occasion to feel discouraged. If there were no tribulations in our lives, no difficult or taxing circumstances that consumed...
by kdm | Jan 26, 2025 | #character, #discipline, agency, Choice, choices, Christ Ministry, Family, For times of trouble, Learning?, Modern Prophets, Nurture, Revelation, spiritually strong, Today's Post
From the Doctrine and Covenants section 121, verses 33 to 46: Preamble to this section: Prayer and prophecies written by Joseph Smith the Prophet in an epistle to the Church while he was a prisoner in the jail at Liberty, Missouri, dated March 20, 1839. The Prophet...
by kdm | Jan 21, 2025 | #character, #discipline, agency, Choice, Christ Ministry, Family, fear, For times of trouble, Learning?, Modern Prophets, Nurture, Revelation, spiritual workout, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
Form Chieko N. Okazaki and her book “Being Enough”: Someone once commented, “We do not remember days, we remember moments.”2 How true this is! And because we are human beings—eternal beings spending some time in mortality where, by...
by kdm | Jan 21, 2025 | #discipline, agency, Atonement, choices, Christ Ministry, Family, fear, For times of trouble, Learning?, Modern Prophets, Nurture, Revelation, spiritual workout, spiritually strong, Temple, The Plan, Today's Post
Continuing (from a previous post) a previous post) Bruce C. & Marie K. Hafen, “Faith is Not Blind’ As we grow into Stage Two complexity, we can see reality despite its distance from our ideals—“things as they really are” (Jacob...
by kdm | Jan 19, 2025 | #character, #discipline, agency, Atonement, Choice, choices, Christ Ministry, fear, For times of trouble, Learning?, Modern Prophets, Revelation, spiritual workout, spiritually strong, Temple, The Plan, Today's Post
From the book “In the Arms of His Love, Steven A. Cramer writes: The Prophet Joseph Smith seldom complained about the incredible difficulty and opposition he encountered. But after suffering many long months of cold, lonely and unjust punishment in Liberty Jail,...
by kdm | Jan 18, 2025 | #discipline, agency, choices, Christ Ministry, Learning?, Modern Prophets, Revelation, spiritual workout, The Plan, Today's Post
From Richard Neitzel Holzapfel and Gaye Strathearn: ONE SCHOLAR OBSERVES THAT MATHEW 11:25-30 RECORDS “perhaps the most important verses in the Synoptic Gospels.”1 More specifically, Elder James E. Talmage described verses 28-30 as “one of the...