Jacob 5/Comment 1 The fifth chapter of Jacob is second only to the Isaiah passages for being a mystery and a headache to the casual Book of Mormon Student. Olive orchards, olive trees; old ones, new ones, tame, wild; natural; plucking, grafting, planting and transplanting; what in the world does all this have to do […]
Picture a Court Case
The Restored Gospel of Jesus Christ does not teach me of a God who needs me to prove my worthiness before He will respond to my need for Him in my life. I know a God who runs to meet me in my need. A God who rescues me because of His goodness, not mine. […]
The Only Holy One
I was reviewing my May 2014 journal and found this reminder: HUMILITY, May 14, 2014 Humility is actually the motivation of honesty. It is the motivation of courage. It takes humility to accept imperfection–what we can’t change–that we’re not going to ever arrive at perfection ourselves, but will have to always rely on God and […]
Grieving Can Look Like Depression
Grieving can look like (and even feel like) depression. But it’s not depression. April 2000 19 years ago in April, 2000, I wrote: In HtH, tonight, someone offered the most wonderful insight: “I’ve been afraid to do the grief-work I’ve needed to do.” Me too! I’ve been afraid to mourn and grieve my losses–like the […]
New and Everlasting All at Once?
This is a new and an everlasting covenant, even that which was from the beginning. (D&C 22:1) How can something be “new” and “everlasting” at the same time? Isn’t that a paradoxical, even irrational combination of words? I mean, if something is “everlasting,” eventually it won’t be new any longer. If I have an everlasting […]
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