A few thoughts on a quiet Sunday Evening. On “Flow” I don’t know that I’ve detailed this principle anywhere in any great detail, but the principle of “Flow” has been crystalizing in my mind as I have studied and learned about water, and how it works in the world around us and within a contained …
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Good Friday, April 18, 2025
Thoughts from Morning Prayer: It started perhaps with this scripture study from President Jeffery R. Holland, where he pointed out just one word “if” and suddenly made the whole interaction between Christ and those that mocked him, very personal. Jesus was still being questioned as to his divinity, as to his ability, by (ultimately) the …
Family History is Personal
I don’t want to forget what I have learned today. So before we sit down for dinner, I am taking time to type up what has happened. I have received my commission into family history in a most extraordinarily personal way. We are coming out of a weekend of stake conference and I’ve just recovered …
Peace, No More?
In thoughts that have been impressed upon my mind this morning, and from comments that I’ve been listening to over the past few days, it seems to me that we are or have already entered into a period in which peace, generally speaking, has been taken from among us. Now I don’t know where you …
A Sure Foundation
Helaman 5:12, see also Isaiah 28:14–17 You must shore up your foundations. You must shore up your spiritual foundations and your temporal foundations. If or When It is important for me to realize that the word that is used in Helaman is not “if”. It’s not if the devil will send forth his mighty winds …
The Morning That Came from the Heart
I cannot even begin to express the places I have been in prayer this morning, as I have sat at my kitchen table alone. The Spirit of the Lord has tutored me, I have felt His peace, and now I must move on for the day.
Gratitude
Gratitude has as much to do with the future as it does the past. Gratitude defines our actions looking forward as much as it filters and cleanses our attitudes and opinions about experiences already lived. Gratitude is a choice as much as it is a blessing from God. It must be desired, then actively sought …
Faith in Family Life
Let us be clear about this, marriage, parenting, and family are each complementary acts of faith. We embark on these lifelong, life altering acts of faith with only a vague idea of our end destination. It is not the known or the familiar country that we seek for in striving to fulfill the purposes of …
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Goodness Is Its Own Reward
Music and The Spoken Word -Mormon Tabernacle Choir Episode 4163 Goodness Is Its Own Reward – June 28, 2009 We live in a world where awards seem to be freely given and freely received. In fact, sometimes the award becomes such a strong incentive for good work and behavior that it overshadows the more subtle …