To Mormons, All Life is Sacred
This is an extremely emotional, not to mention touchy, topic for anyone to address. But I feel it is one that clearly must be spoken of and I have never been afraid to stand and be counted on anything of great import. There are really three points of view in regards...
Forgiveness: A Path To Happiness
Holding resentment and anger toward another festers in your heart and chokes out what happy seeds you may try to plant there. As long as you have bitter feelings for another, you cannot be truly happy. Likewise, when you feel shame or guilt for your own actions, it's...
Mormon Articles of Faith: We Believe . . . Part 1
When asked by a reporter from a Chicago Newspaper what the basic tenets of the Mormon faith were, First: We believe in God, the Eternal Father, and in His Son, Jesus Christ, and in the Holy Ghost. This is one of the key differences between Mormons and the rest of the...
At-one-ment: Mormon Understanding of the Atonement
The word Atonement, literally, can break down as At-one-ment . . . pause and reflect on that a moment. Mormons believe in the full scope and power of the Atonement of Jesus Christ. Modern day prophets and apostles have given us great insight into this sacred gift...
When Children Feel Like a Misfit
There is something endearing about the story of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, more particularly the one revolving around a group of misfits. First we have Rudolph, a reindeer born with a red nose. In an attempt to help him fit in his father covers the nose, helping...
Mormon Youth Programs
Just as in every other aspect of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, or Mormon Church as it is more commonly known, the youth have special programs set up specifically for them. Both of these programs had unofficial beginnings within the restored Church....
Happiness Is What You Make It
My husband and I had several conversations over the weekend about our holiday plans. Because his mother’s health is quite poor, she and my father-in-law won’t be joining us for Christmas like they have the past several years. And because they love their parents and...
A Child’s Prayer
This is a parable about prayer. I have two young boys, one has special needs and the other is just special. They balance each other out and keep my days very full of adventure. They are also very different in nature. Each says their prayers before bed but those...
Charity is Kind
It seems we don’t have to look far in today’s world to find heartbreaking examples of hatred, greed, prejudice and pain. Why is this? How has our world become so self-centered that we can not look beyond ourselves and see how our actions might affect someone else? How...
Charity Suffereth Long
When was the last time you had to wait, really wait, for something you didn’t think you should have? Be it pizza delivery or a long prayed for pregnancy that never seems to come, we all have moments in our lives that seem long. To God’s perspective it doesn’t seem but...
Matt Moody’s First Testimony and Conversion
Before I left to serve a mission for the “Mormon” Church, I knew that I had not experienced the “burning” that my mother spoke of as she testified of restored truth. But I always felt good about attending the LDS Church, and I felt good about the decision to serve a...
Happiness at Home
Having a happy home, one where we and our children feel safe and secure, is probably our most noble desire. I did not grow up in one, though I have happy memories that stand out in their purity and sweetness against a dark backdrop. I can't change the past, however, I...
It Never Makes Sense
Every thought in relation to these types of occurrences is filled with sorrow, anger, and frustration as to why these things seem to be happening at an all too frequent rate in our society. What is also disturbing is that it seems to be a trend coming from younger...
The Lord is My Light
The shadow of adversity is cast over all of us in our mortality. It happens to everyone. But there are things that we can do to help us remember that there is hope, and that the shadow will not last any longer than we sometimes let it. One of those things that helps...
A Prophet, Seer, and Revelator
Because I was born and raised in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (or the Mormon Church), I've always been exposed to questions and comments about Joseph Smith. Sometimes the questions and comments have been sincere and serious, often times, they...
Because I Have Been Given Much
Because I have been given much, I too must give; Because of thy great bounty, Lord, each day I live I shall divide my gifts from thee With every brother that I see Who has the need of help from me. (From Hymns page 219, Text by Grace Noll Crowell, Music by Phillip...
The Power of a Parent’s Voice
There’s a particular scene in the movie MONSTER’S INC. that makes me cringe every time. Boo, a sweet little toddler has accidentally found herself in a world of monsters. The monster who let her in, Sully, spends a large part of the movie trying to get her back home...
The Church of Jesus Christ is Restored
In the meridian of time, which means 0 a.d., Jesus Christ came into the world. The millennia which had passed since the creation of the world had brought about much corruption in the gospel which had been given to Adam and Eve. He came into the world to save it, not...
Laying On of Hands
In The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, casually known What is it exactly? Is any sick among you? Let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: And the prayer of faith shall save the...
Turning our Weaknesses Into Strengths
Perfection is our goal and yet it is impossible to attain in mortality. Jesus Christ, of all the billions upon billions of God's children who have lived on this earth, was the only one who remained perfect in mortality. We, you and I, have weaknesses. Because of these...
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