by kdm | Jan 30, 2025 | #character, #discipline, agency, Atonement, Choice, choices, Christ Ministry, fear, For times of trouble, Learning?, Nurture, spiritual workout, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
From the Book “C.S. Lewis, The Man and His Message”: Gilbert Meilanender wrote well of Lewis in the fall 1998 issue of First Things, saying, “Every choice counts. Every choice contributes to determining what we ultimately love.”9 C.S. Lewis...
by kdm | Jan 29, 2025 | #character, #discipline, agency, Atonement, Choice, Christ Ministry, Family, fear, For times of trouble, Learning?, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
Continuing from “Coming Together To Be (Un)comfortable” from the book “The Power of Stillness”. . . Notice stories or labels you carry around for other people, and how they inadvertently establish all manner of “-ites” (4 Nephi...
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...