(I was touched by something I heard online about cancer patients and their families, and as I thought about the strength it must take for a cancer patient and their families to go through such a challenge, these were the thoughts that came to my mind.) Cancer? I may not have Strength Health Energy Time……
For everything that you claim to believe, there is something that you do to show that you actually believe it. And if you trust that God will help you out, that Christ will show you how to do it, and that the Spirit of God will guide you, enlighten you, and strengthen you to do…
I know there are a lot of young kids who play Fortnite…my teen kids included. It’s addictively fun to watch, and more addictive to play this mix of Hunger Games violence, Minecraft building, and Sim City avatar-ing. Be anyone, destroy and build anything, and eliminate all others…how does a parent get their kids’ attention as…
when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking. (Matthew 6:7) Vain repetition. When our words and our actions don’t really mean anything, but we keep doing them over and over…to make it look like we’re still “compliant”, “obedient”, righteous-looking followers.…
I was talking with my 17 year old son who struggles with finding his self-worth. This, despite the fact that… He’s masterful with his violin, viola, piano, and makes piano arrangements of complex orchestral pieces He can dance with Michael Jackson moves He’s looked upon as a leader among his peers He can cook He…
As I was looking to help motivate my kids for the new school year…because I noticed some of them were struggling and wanted to help them see things a bit differently, I came across some things that Gordon B. Hinckley said that I shared with them last night. And here they are: “If Life Gets…
If it’s the Lord’s will, there’s a way. I heard that statement today, and I loved it. It’s a little spin off from “If there’s a will, there’s a way.” I asked the lady who mentioned it how she got that thought, and she said, “It’s been something on my mind lately…that when the Lord…
I don’t have have to change the world to match the Lord…but I can be a Light to show the world how the Lord helps me change myself to match him. Lights don’t change things directly. Rather, Light influences things to change themselves. It shows them how they are, and then they choose how they…
For me, there is one advantage for having fear when I face uncertainty: It gives me a reason to trust God. And when I trust Him, He shows me just how his power, his ways, his Spirit, His Son, His Son’s Atonement, and his Son’s Gospel, overcome the very thing I’m afraid of.
As I listened to Presdent Monson’s address to us this past General Conference, some things popped out at me when I heard him say these words: “If you are not reading the Book of Mormon each day, please do so. If you will read it prayerfully and with a sincere desire to know the truth,…
There is a story of a man who was given a great task of building boats to carry him and his family over a great ocean towards another land. God, speaking from within a cloud, gave him this task. There came a point where the boats needed light because they were fully enclosed except for…
Why I love the Gospel: It’s a toolbox, a Swiss army knife for life on this earth…it is a collection of principles and ideas that actually do work. And it’s a tool box from God. What better toolbox can you have!?! I have confidence in these tools. When used in the right way, they help…
Peace in your life doesn’t mean there’s no commotion, no problems, no trials, and that everything will always work out the way I’d like. The Lord said, “Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart betroubled, neither let it be…
Jesus Christ lived…a perfect life…for us. Jesus Christ lived…again…after death…for our sake. Jesus Christ lives…for us…still. Would we live…for Christ…now? Would we live…renewed again… After returning from our wayward ways…to Him? Would we live…willing…to represent Him… As his hands, his words, his deeds, his Love? He gave His life…before death, and after…for us. Would we…
It takes faith To Trust That a Miracle Will occur Before it even happens… For a Doubter’s eyes Expects to see it now But a Faither’s eyes Watches and waits with Anticipation for What will surely come. And sometimes… It takes faith To Recognize That a Miracle Is happening When it happens… As it happens……
Faith isn’t about Believing Blindly and Having No Doubts. Faith is about Trusting without Seeing the End Result… Despite your Doubts. The hardest part about Faith Is taking that first step Despite your uncertainty, When everything else tells you It doesn’t make any sense. It’s taking a step anyway. Our job is to discern The…
When you take some of your time for the Lord in the midst of your busy schedule, and “give your all” during that time, You’ll find that He will take time out for you, and that He’ll give you all that you need…and more. Give Him your time, your talents, your best, And He’ll give…
Our job is not to find Non-Believers and Dont-Want-to-Believe-ers and turn them into Believers. Our job is to find Want-To-Believe-ers… Connect them with God and Christ… Teach them how to see Their hand in their life… Show them the ways to Trust Them… and Help them as they struggle to Learn those ways… And they…
Ask the Aged What they’ve learned… And you will get The Lesson of a Lifetime From a lifetime of lessons, Wisdom from Successes And Mistakes Of their own, and others’, too; Ask the Prophet and Apostles, These Aged Men Of God, What they’ve learned… And you will get The Lesson of a Lifetime From a…
Have you ever felt like a “nothing”? Have you ever felt like you weren’t “worth much” when people looked at you? I have…many times…growing up. My teen years were full of those moments. I was one of the social “outcasts”, one of the “weirdos”, you know…”different”. Those were hard days…even though I eventually got…
Stand on your own but Don’t stand alone. Rather, Stand with God. The LDS Lamplighter
“The Truth will Ouch!”: I read this phrase somewhere, some time ago, and somehow, its wit caught me off guard as Funny, Yet True. It’s not an easy thing to be shown one’s weaknesses. We try our hardest to hide them, fix them, or make up excuses for them. Little do we realize that we…
The Lord will teach us what we need to learn at the best time for us to learn them…and sometimes, that “best time” isn’t always the most comfortable time. Sometimes, the best time is in the middle of a conflict, a trial, or of a stressful period…in the middle of the action. Why is that…
I’d like to point out in particular what President Benson said back in 1981: The people of every generation, I suppose, see the time in which they live as being exceptional. The truth of the matter is that you do live in a most exceptional time in the history of the world. You young people…
Perfect Faith (or Complete Faith) is composed of the Spark of Desire, the Willingness of Belief, the Meekness of Trust, the Diligence of Work, the Persistence of Patience, and the Firm Anticipation of Results called Hope. The Test of Faith is whether or not we will “run with it” before really knowing the results,…
Some time ago, I heard someone ask, “Do we give God the opportunity to be God…and not just some kind of superhuman? We don’t. We limit God even in the things that we request of Him…only because we don’t recognize that He could…and would..do so much more if we trust Him enough to do so.…
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