A New Year, A Fresh Start
“Our busy lives force us to focus on things we do from day to day. But the development of character comes only as we focus on who we really are.” –Elder Russell M. Nelson, 2000 There is something fantastic and magical about the beginning of a new year. Sort of like the feeling I try to impress upon my kids as they rest their weary heads on their pillows after a “bad day,” feeling all but defeated by the world. We often repeat to each other in a courageous...
Read MoreMormon Messages Video: "Look Not Behind Thee"
This Mormon Messages video has a great message for the new year. It doesn’t matter what the past has been like; because of the Savior, Jesus Christ, we can move forward in our lives with hope and faith. This message of hope and faith can be found in various talks by LDS Church leaders, such as this talk by Elder Jeffrey R. Holland, “An High Priest of Good Things to...
Read MoreA Mormon Woman reflects on the Blessings of the Temple
by Heidi~ As a busy wife and mother, I often feel as if I am besieged by dozens of voices calling me to venture off in hundreds of directions. Then there is the voice on top of all the rest, the one that questions which voice is the one that should be attended to first, or even at all. It can be confusing, overwhelming and exhausting. There are times, however, when a person can feel as if she is doing the right thing at the right time and the voices go quiet; when she is taking a...
Read MoreMormon Woman Writes about Struggle with Depression in Poem: “Descending”
~by Marsha Steed Keller Sometimes we do it all. Sometimes we think we can do it all, and sometimes the ‘all’ falls into a pile of broken dreams, shattered promises and difficulties at our feet. Once I had it all, and then one day I woke up to the realization that nothing I thought I had existed any longer. Now that I have a degree in Psychology, I realize I was in a major depression, but at the time, I just thought that I wasn’t ‘good enough’ and needed to ‘try...
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