by Alison P | Feb 26, 2008 | Finding Happiness
Think back on a time in your life when you faced a challenging or dark time. It is a natural response within the disciple to go to the Lord with a pleading in our heart and a hope for relief. What do we ask for? The righteous desires of our hearts. I doubt that many...
by Alison P | Feb 26, 2008 | Finding Truth
By the time I was about 10 years old until late into my teens, my father held some rather significant leadership positions in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This meant that often, we were the only ones, or the last ones to be inside the church...
by Alison P | Feb 26, 2008 | Discipleship: Follow the Savior
For me personally, the things that keep me from perfection are mostly small, but they come every single day of my life. Large transgression, or small, our human nature and the restrictions of a mortal life, hold us far below the nature of our Father in Heaven....
by Wendi P | Feb 26, 2008 | Finding Happiness
The Bible describes hope as an “anchor of the soul” (Hebrews 6:19). Now, I’m not an expert on anchors or how they work, so I did a little reading. It doesn’t sound intuitive to me, dropping a heavy chunk of metal to the ocean floor when you are trying desperately to...
by Laurie W | Feb 25, 2008 | Finding Happiness
One of Satan’s greatest tactics is to convince us that once we sin we can never become clean again. It’s over. We should just give up, and give in. Fortunately there is hope. Repentance is an extraordinary blessing given to us by our Savior. All that He endured during...
by Laurie W | Feb 25, 2008 | Finding Happiness
This is such a difficult subject to write about. It’s not because I’m shy when it comes to talking about sexual purity. When the subject comes up in church lessons I’m usually the first to volunteer because I feel so passionately about remaining pure before, and...
