by kdm | Jan 28, 2025 | #character, #discipline, agency, Atonement, Christ Ministry, Family, fear, For times of trouble, Learning?, Nurture, Revelation, spiritual workout, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
From the book “The Power of Stillness”: It is common for us to talk about the aim of Church gatherings to be uplifting, comforting and consoling our spirits. Although these are things we all understandably want, what happens when the opposite happens, and...
by kdm | Jan 23, 2025 | #character, #discipline, agency, Choice, Christ Ministry, Revelation, spiritual workout, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
Continuing their book “Faith is Not Blind (part II)”, Bruce C. and Marie K. Haven teach: The best response to the gap of Uncertainty is to keep growing into Stage Three, where we don’t just see the real and the ideal; we also hold on to each...
by kdm | Jan 22, 2025 | #discipline, agency, Atonement, Choice, choices, Christ Ministry, Family, fear, For times of trouble, Revelation, spiritual workout, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
From Gene R. Cook and the book “A Year of Powerful Prayer”: When I was younger and prayed fervently for answers to prayers, sometimes I didn’t feel I received an answer—and then I wondered if the Lord really did love me. I prayed earnestly and...
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 21, 2025 | #character, #discipline, agency, Atonement, Choice, Christ Ministry, fear, For times of trouble, spiritual workout, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
From Jerry Sittser and his book “The Will of God as a Way of Life”: 21 It occurred to me a few years ago that either I had developed the bad habit of missing the will of God for my life or I had a mistaken notion of what God’s will was and is. The...