https://ldsblogs.com/1501/joseph-smith-and-self-reliance Fri, 24 Jun 2016 12:44:15 +0000 hourly 1 https://ldsblogs.com/1501/joseph-smith-and-self-reliance#comment-546907 Fri, 24 Jun 2016 12:44:15 +0000 http://en.elds.org/ldsblogs-com/1501/joseph-smith-and-self-reliance#comment-546907 By the way, when you mentioned Thoreau and Joseph together, you gained my interest greatly 😉

]]> https://ldsblogs.com/1501/joseph-smith-and-self-reliance#comment-546906 Fri, 24 Jun 2016 12:31:56 +0000 http://en.elds.org/ldsblogs-com/1501/joseph-smith-and-self-reliance#comment-546906 Thank you for writing this piece. You gave wonderful insight on “the way of life” that Adam, Jesus and Joseph all stood for. A way of life that is, unfortunately, historically diluted over generations, finally forgotten, and eventually realized during a day of reckoning. Every worthy priesthood holder who is capable, being assisted by his wife and children, should have a garden and learn the skills to produce and preserve for their “own” needs, becoming “truly” self-reliant. A garden is just the starting point to the greater living that accompanies working with the earth (handy craft, wood work, weaving, masonry, health, and more, all promoted in the Doctrine and Covenants). The further a society disconnects from the Earth, the further they disconnect from the Creator of it. Ezra Taft Benson summed it up well in his 1980 talk “Prepare for the Days of Tribulation”
https://www.lds.org/general-conference/1980/10/prepare-for-the-days-of-tribulation?lang=eng

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