The Spirit’s Influence in the Process of Self-Improvement
~by Jeanette Green You can read a bit more about Jeanette, the mother of a daughter with microcephaly and another daughter who is adopted, here. Now that it’s February, perhaps many of us are, sadly, done talking about our resolutions. Perhaps our ideas and plans for the year, our goals for self-improvement and personal progression, have faded — or are beginning to, anyway. I have always been goal-oriented, so for me, I enjoy the New Year’s tradition of setting resolutions...
Read More"[Pornography's] destructive influence is not greater than God"
We are grateful to Diony for sharing her experience of dealing with her husband’s porn addiction. Hers is an example of how sometimes pornography has so much of a grip that a marriage cannot be saved, but again, we see the message about how walking with and turning to God can make healing possible. (She is now happily married!) Read more of Diony’s insights gained from her journey as the wife of a pornography addict. “God walked it with me. Through Him I found hope....
Read MoreMacular Degeneration Hasn't Stopped This Mormon Genealogist
Editor’s note: Today’s Forward with Faith story is about Carol, an 82-year-old Mormon woman who has macular degeneration. Macular degeneration is a condition where small blood vessels develop behind the macula, a small black spot in the center of the retina that is essential to seeing fine detail for reading, writing, recognize faces, using the phone, etc. Over time, the blood vessels burst, bleed, and form blood clots that cause vision loss. Many people who suffer from macular...
Read More"The Lord Is in It"
~by Sue I was lucky enough to attend sacrament meeting recently at the single adult ward congregation where my husband has the good fortune to serve as bishop. One of the young men bore a testimony that really touched me. He began by relating a childhood filled with crisis and tragedy, including a narrow escape as his family home burned to the ground in a southern state. This loss forced him to leave dear friends and familiar surroundings to relocate with his mother and siblings to his...
Read MoreForward with Faith: Healing from Abuse
A Mormon woman shares of the heartbreak of abuse, and how she was able to find healing. ~Name withheld It is over a decade later. I have finally come to the realization that I am an abused woman. No, I never received a bruise, a cut or a strike of the hand, but the words that berated me daily broke my spirit, cut into my confidence and beat me into a silent depressed ghost of myself. I no longer laughed, I no longer made goals or plans and I never ventured out of my little cell of allowable...
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