by kdm | Oct 20, 2024 | #character, #discipline, agency, Atonement, choices, Christ Ministry, fear, For times of trouble, Modern Prophets, Nurture, Revelation, spiritual workout, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
From the book, “The Power of Stillness by: ~Jacob Z. Hess, Carrie L. Skarda, Kyle D, Anderson, Ty R,Mansfield, The Power of Stillness (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2019) p.144-48 Salvation by Presence: Compared to relief through avoidance, both Buddhist...
by kdm | Oct 18, 2024 | #discipline, agency, Choice, Revelation, spiritually strong, Today's Post
Gerald N. Lund taught: Another possible answer to the question of why God doesn’t seem to be answering our prayers stems from our unwillingness to accept what the Lord gives Us. I had an experience as a bishop. A returned missionary in the ward had been home...
by kdm | Oct 14, 2024 | Family, fear, For times of trouble, Nurture, Revelation, spiritually strong, Today's Post
From the book 50 Things That Really Matter to Latter-day Saints. . . (multiple authors) Alisha Geary writes: “As a child I was afraid of many things. Being alone in the dark or imagining the monsters under my bed would send be crying to my parents’...
by kdm | Oct 14, 2024 | #discipline, agency, Choice, choices, Christ Ministry, Family, fear, Modern Prophets, Nurture, Revelation, spiritually strong, Today's Post
From the book “What’s a Parent to Do?” by Glen I. Latham: During one of the darkest moments of Nephite history, when the wicked had vowed to slay the righteous if the sign of Christ’s birth did not “come to pass, which had been given by...
by kdm | Oct 14, 2024 | #discipline, agency, Atonement, Choice, choices, Christ Ministry, fear, For times of trouble, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
John Bytheway taught:. A note of caution: Faith is not willing our desires into existence. That would be exercising faith in what we want. For example, many of us have experienced the death of a loved one and have concluded that if we only had more faith, the loved...
by kdm | Oct 13, 2024 | #discipline, agency, Choice, For times of trouble, spiritual workout, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
From William B. Smart’s book “Messages for a Happier Life”: In a quiet New England churchyard lies a headstone whose epitaph contains a profoundly important message—a goal—for all of us. Here lies a woman twice blessed; She was happy and...