Tag: insights
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Water, Blood, and Spirit
Ye were born into the world by water, and blood, and the spirit… Moses 6:59 Water from the womb Blood from your mortal mother Your eternal spirit Even so ye must be born again into the kingdom of heaven, of water, and of the Spirit, and be cleansed by blood… Moses 6:59 Water of Baptism…
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Insights from Abraham
Fascinating history of how we got the Pearl of Great Price as canonical scripture. It was published as articles in church newspapers and in England many of those were collected as a book for members (mainly traveling to America) which members in America didn’t have as a book. The original book included more than what…
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“Be of good cheer”
The counsel to be of good cheer isn’t generic, it is always offered in conjunction with something encouraging. The Lord doesn’t offer this as an empty platitude but as a reminder that the things discouraging us do not constitute the whole picture. (Also, depression is discouraging but it is not the same as simply being…
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Healing insights
I look back and see that for much of my young adult life I was a withered and sickly little tree. Then as I felt I was beginning to get a handle on adult life I was smitten with the effects of bipolar as with the East wind. While still learning to balance in that…
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Notice Heavenly Father’s Love
Everytime we feel a bit of love or joy in our hearts Heavenly Father is there touching our hearts. If we recognize him in each small thing (and of course any large things) we can begin to recognize the magnitude of His love for us. If we will pay attention to those feelings and experiences…
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27 September 2009
I can tell that I have some of the sickness that Laura is feeling and that everyone else has had to varying degrees. That’s not a fun thought as I am covering for Scott this week. We got a slow start today and I was the only one to go to Sacrament meeting for our…
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Journal 20 September 2008
I’m trying to capture a conversation I had with Laura about the nature of God and his Omniscience as we drove down to Lehi on your way to the BYU game. Everything is governed by natural law. The laws are more pattern than blueprint in that they are followed, but adapted to the specific context…
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17 August 2008
2 Nephi 6 – 7Jacob tells the people that Jerusalem has been destroyed and the people taken captive and scattered, but that the promises of the lord to them are still great and they will be redeemed. I felt the need to continue to chapter 7 and as I read I felt the desire that…
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28 June 2008
D&C 121I think it is vastly important to note that in his frustration here Joseph is turning to the Lord for answers. The feeling of frustration is neither evidence of nor cause for sin and despair. Instead, he turns to the Lord and supplicates for His intervention. That is the proper response to frustration –…
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Journal 25 May 2008
I had an interesting thought in Sunday School today as I was listening to the lesson about the different escapes of Limhi and Alma. Laura and I are in a challenging period trying to follow the Lord without an apparent path for the temporal support of our family. I have been struggling with my own…