* ‘Watchfulness as Wise Awareness’ / ‘Wrenching Our Very Heartstrings’
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...* Comfort
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’...* Faith in the Lord’s Will
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...The Search for Happiness
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...A Present-Focused Gospel
Teachings of Jacob Z.Hess, Carrie L. Skarda, Kyle D. Anderson, Ty R. Mansfield, from their book “The Power of Stillness”: Relishing the present, of course, is not a foreign concept to Latter-day Saints. We just talk about it differently—focusing on...
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I am married and we have 3 children and many grandchildren. Our children have chosen wisely in their careers and in marriage and I attribute much of their success, as they do, to a close relationship with Jesus Christ… Click for more.