Tag: Relief Society
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We Never Walk Alone
Wherever we are in life, there are times when all of us have challenges and struggles. Although they are different for each, they are common to all. Many of the challenges we face exist because we live in this mortal world, populated by all manner of individuals. At times we ask in desperation, “How can…
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Claim the Blessings of Your Covenants
Perhaps at no other time do we feel the divine love of the Savior as abundantly as we do when we repent and feel His loving arms outstretched to embrace us and assure us of His love and acceptance. Another mother I know of has sat alone at church for a number of years with…
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We Have Great Reason to Rejoice
When my father-in-law passed away, our family gathered together to greet others who came to pay their respects. Throughout the evening, as I visited with family and friends, I often noticed our 10-year-old grandson, Porter, standing near my mother-in-law—his “granny.” Sometimes he was standing behind her, watching over her. Once I noticed his arm linked…
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The Power, Joy, and Love of Covenant Keeping
One evening a man called his five sheep to come into the shelter for the night. His family watched with great interest as he simply called, “Come on,” and immediately all five heads lifted and turned in his direction. Four sheep broke into a run toward him. With loving kindness he gently patted each of…
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The Caregiver
The women of the Church of Jesus Christ have been moving toward becoming the society of sisters that the Prophet Joseph Smith’s mother, Lucy Mack Smith, described in these words: “We must cherish one another, watch over one another, comfort one another and gain instruction, that we may all sit down in heaven together.” There…
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The Lord Has Not Forgotten You
Recently my husband, Mel, and I met a volunteer tour guide named Mollie Lenthal as we visited a museum in Australia. We found out that Mollie, a lovely woman in her 70s, has no children and has never married. She is an only child, and her parents have been deceased for many years. Her closest…
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Wide Awake to Our Duties
In the Book of Mormon, Alma taught his people the sacred duties of those who enter into a covenant with God: “And now, as ye are desirous to come into the fold of God, and to be called his people, and are willing to bear one another’s burdens, that they may be light; “Yea, and…
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Is Faith in the Atonement of Jesus Christ Written in Our Hearts?
Like you, I love the scriptures! In the book of Jeremiah we find a scripture that is very dear to my heart. Jeremiah lived in a difficult time and place, but the Lord allowed him to foresee “a time of hope during the latter-day gathering of Israel”—our day. Jeremiah prophesied: “After those days, saith the…
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Forget Me Not
Five things we would be wise never to forget: forget not to be patient with yourself forget not the difference between a good sacrifice and a foolish sacrifice forget not to be happy now forget not the “why” of the gospel forget not that the Lord loves you I want to tell you something that…