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Forgetting What It Means To Be a Kid
There was a television show a few years back entitled Kids Say The Darndest Things. Featuring ironic and humorous quips from young kids, the show was often entertaining as well as enlightening. As a...
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Greater Love Hath No Man than This
I have thought a lot in the past about the idea of charity “seeking not her own”, and I want to address that general principle today in light of another commonly quoted scripture – what I see as the...
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Hungering and Thirsting after Righteousness
[On Sundays this year we are publishing a series from Ray that will focus on the Sermon on the Mount, analyzing each characteristic of godliness found in Matthew 5-7. Essay 1, Essay 2, Essay 3, Essay...
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The Unspeakable Gift
I was buffeted by images of people recoiling in their living rooms, glancing sideways at one another and rolling their eyes, as Elder Christensen told the story of his young son’s experience at a...
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Humility and Forgiveness
Which one of us has had a stone lobbed at us, for no apparent good reason, and our feathers became ruffled? Or perhaps we have spoken out of turn only to regret it minutes later? How many if only...
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When is Your Appointment?
Over a blissfully free-from-work-and-school holiday break this winter, my eight-year-old daughter accidentally dropped a large can of beans on her big toe. (The ranch style beans with brown sugar that...
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Choose Higher Ground
My missionary son wrote his first p-day letter Monday. It was heart-rending. I thought of The God Who Weeps as I pondered on the soul-stretching he is going through, and the profoundly humble way he is...
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The Book of Mormon includes the following statement from Alma, the High Priest, to Korihor, the professed atheist : The scriptures are laid before thee, yea, and all things denote there is a God; yea,...
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Leaning Into the Wind
Two years ago at 5:00 pm on Easter Sunday nature gave birth to a super cell thunderstorm just west of our small Texas town. This is a fairly typical occurrence on hot and humid spring days for those of...
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Out of the Corner
Today’s guest post is from a regular contributor, Michelle. She manages and writes for the site Mormon Women. “Sisters, you will have to forgive me, but 12 steps are the way I know how to talk about...
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