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Posted in Adversity, Experience, Faith, Sanctification, Zion on Aug 23rd, 2012
The journey through the Lord’s Wilderness is like what Elder Maxwell called “the trek of treks.”[i] The scriptures are filled with accounts of spiritual journeys. If we were to outline them, we would see that they follow the sequence of the Beatitudes, which are the principles of blessedness.[ii] Before we discuss this outline, however, let [...]
Posted in Adversity, Experience, Joy, Opposition in All Things, Plan of Happiness, Redemption, Rescuing Wayward Children on Apr 28th, 2010
The greatest force in all the world [is] to develop character, to bring righteousness into the lives of men and women.—Elder Matthew Cowley[i] When we struggle over long periods of time to reawaken and rescue a wayward child, we might occasionally lapse and wonder, What’s in this for me? It is not necessarily a selfish [...]
Posted in Adversity, Deliverance, Easiness of the Way on Mar 16th, 2010
When Jesus said, “My yoke is easy and my burden is light,”[i] he was offering to join with us and help carry our heavy load. Jesus does not make extraordinary demands for us to step into his yoke; “My yoke is easy,” he said. Once we are yoked together, our burden becomes his; suddenly it [...]
Posted in Adversity, Deliverance, Endure to the End, Patience, Purpose of Life on Feb 20th, 2010
During our thirty-eight years of marriage, we have experienced long seasons of distress when no sign of relief was in sight. Looking back, we have wondered how we ever survived such times. My wife and I adopted a standing joke that we told each other on Thursdays, as we wheeled the garbage cans to the [...]