This morning, as I began my morning meditation, the scripture that came to my mind from the Holy Spirit was Omni 1:26. I was invited to “liken” it to myself and hear it directly addressed to me. Hear it, as in perceive it and receive it into my heart. Thus, through the Spirit, I heard: […]
God’s Generosity Is to All
GOD’S GENEROSITY EXTENDS TO ALL WHO SEEK HIM WITH FAITH In James 1:5, we read that God gives wisdom to all men liberally who seek in faith. That designation of “all men” includes non-Mormons (much to some Mormons’ disbelief), but it also works the other way with equal truth. In other words, despite some non-Mormon’s […]
Genuine Sanity
The following sharing was an entry in my July 2003 journal. It is even truer for me today in the face of world and national events as well as aging and watching the challenges of my 11 children who are in their 30s and 40s. I mean, truly, mortality just keeps piling up and piling […]
Another Comforter
And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. I will […]
One of His People
The Son will take upon him the sickness of His people. (Alma 7:11) Here it is again—the TRUTH that I don’t need to worry about how to heal myself of my sickness, my dis-ease, my illness, my weakness—my addictive-compulsive-obsessive behaviors. All I have to do is seek to be one of His people. I need to think […]
Never Cast Off
That they may know the covenants of the Lord, that they are not cast off forever. (Book of Mormon Title Page) Christ has covenanted to never give up on me! That “they” may know. I am part of “they.” That I may know that I am not cast off forever. I pray that I may retain […]
Running from Pillar to Post
But behold, I, Nephi, will show unto you that the tender mercies of the Lord are over all those whom he hath chosen, because of their faith, to make them mighty even unto the power of deliverance. (1 Nephi 1:20) To make them mighty even unto the power of deliverance. Do those words pull at […]
My Life in Light of the Book of Mormon
One day, many years ago, after my recovery had begun, I was reading the Book of Mormon and came to these words in Jacob 1:4: And if there were preaching which was sacred, or revelation which was great, or prophesying, that I should engraven the heads of them upon these plates, and touch upon them […]