As a trying-to-recover perfectionist, I will admit that it’s always been difficult for me to process the ideal when I know that my reality is often so far from the ideal. I have spent a good portion of my life feeling like I am never enough. I have been known to have General Conferences end, […]
Types and symbols are rich methods of teaching us about the Savior and his role in the Plan of Salvation. The scriptures are full of these them. The prophet Nephi writes, “Behold, my soul delighteth in proving unto my people the truth of the coming of Christ; … all things which have been […]
What did Joseph Smith believe about the atonement of Christ? How did he understand it? It is known that he felt it was the central tenant and foundation of our religion, but what did the prophet understand of it’s place in the grand scheme of things. The following quote provides some clues.
It is reasonable […]
Disclaimer: this is not a doctrinal dissertation, and is not a claim to authority or anything of the kind. It is a description of what I consider possibly the only time in my life, outside of the affirmation of current doctrines explicitly taught in the church, where I was given a personal revelation of a […]
I had a wonderful opportunity to catch up with a good friend last night. We sat on her front porch and talked while the children played to their hearts’ content.
She shared with me the joy of her new marriage and how the Lord had brought her and her husband together. After a painfully difficult, but necessary, […]
As this Easter season approaches I find myself pondering the daily Jesus. Not so much the Jesus whose miracles and teachings are recorded in holy writ—I’m thinking of the Jesus we might learn of were we able to read “many other things”:
And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if […]
