Tag: 2015
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What Lack I Yet?
The journey of discipleship is not an easy one, it is a course of steady improvement. When we successfully ask how we can improve the Spirit can teach us what we need, even if it isn’t what we expected. “Clean up your language” for one. “Don’t interrupt people when they are talking” for another. And…
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Yielding Our Hearts to God
How do we, as modern, competitive people, yield and become settled. Sometimes the Lord, in His wisdom, let’s us wait even when we are earnestly seeking. “Our family moto is ‘it will all work out.’ … It doesn’t say ‘it will all work out now.’” I really like Sister Marriott and her perspective. In order…
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The Joy of Living a Christ-Centered Life
The results are drastically different of we start with clay that is centered on the wheel. Likewise, our lives are vastly improved if we have them centered firmly on the gospel of Christ. The father of Lamoni was willing to give up half his kingdom in order to save his life when he was at…
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God Is at the Helm
What is on the old ship Zion (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) that we can hold onto? The apostles of Christ. The plan of salvation. Heavenly Father created male and female in order to participate in bringing His children into mortality. Observe the Sabbath day.
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It Works Wonderfully!
“When you tell {someone} that there are billions of stars in the universe he will believe you but when you tell him three is wet passing on the walls he will touch it to make sure.” After a recent medical procedure President Uchtdorf tried to speed up his healing process by searching the internet rather…
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A Summer with Great-Aunt Rose
Eva didn’t want to live with Great Aunt Rose but her mother needed surgery so Eva had to live with her for a summer. Great Aunt Rose lived away from others and Eva was lonely. When she finally began to pay attention to her aunt she discovered that great aunt Rose was the happiest person…
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Here to Serve a Righteous Cause
The righteous cause we serve is the cause of Christ. It is the work of salvation. The Lord taught, “This is my work and my glory—to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man.” We are the cause for which Jesus Christ suffered, bled from every pore, and in perfect love gave His…
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Worthy of Our Promised Blessings
Have we all, including you dear younger sisters in Primary and Young Women, had the opportunity to hold a newborn baby in our arms and have him or her look up into our eyes? Have we sensed the sacred and holy feeling surrounding this celestial spirit, so recently sent by our Father in Heaven to…
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Discovering the Divinity Within
We come into this world “trailing clouds of glory.” “The Family: A Proclamation to the World” teaches that each one of us “is a beloved spirit son or daughter of heavenly parents” and “each has a divine nature and destiny.” Heavenly Father generously shares a portion of His divinity within us. That divine nature comes…
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The Sabbath Is a Delight
Our observance of the sabbath is a sign of our faith and trust in God and His covenants. No other work transcends that of righteous, intentional parenting. Love of God engenders a love of the sabbath and love for the sabbath engenders a love of God.