Yesterday, at the Thursday noon phone meeting of Heart t’ Heart, we had five sisters there from five different states. What an amazing blessing that was! To picture that we five were connecting across so many miles, all of one heart and one mind, admitting our need for the Savior and His personal administration in […]
Read More atonement, Christ, conscious contact, faith, grace, love, personal revelation, recovery, Zion…having first obtained mine errand from the Lord. (Jacob 1:17) In this verse Jacob is sharing with us the actions he took after he first “obtained [his] errand from the Lord.” This is exactly what we need to do every day of our lives. We need to set aside a private, quiet time on a […]
Read More conscious contact, faith, personal revelation, scripture studyAnd now, if the Lord has such great power, and has wrought so many miracles among the children of men, how is it that he cannot instruct me, that I should build a ship. (1 Nephi 17:51) This verse just looks like it’s about ship-building. It’s not. It’s about how a person with absolutely no […]
Read More delivery, faith, journaling, personal revelation, scripture study, spiritual life, trust, writingDuring my years of recovery through the Atonement of Christ, I have awakened to the amazing truth that I can have a Christmas morning as many mornings out of the year as I chose. He’s there waiting for me every time I am willing to look to Him for counsel, for comfort, for guidance and […]
Read More Christ, Christmas, grace, Holy Ghost, journaling, personal revelation, scripture study, spirit, writingAs I knelt down this morning to offer my formal “opening prayer” for the day, I automatically (after 20 years of daily repetition) reached for my pen and notepad. I had to smile as the recognition whispered through my mind: “This is how it all began.” And it is so true. It began with my […]
Read More conscious contact, journaling, personal revelation, writingWe’re all different, and I can’t tell anyone else’s story or anyone else’s truth, but I am blessed to come here and have a place to tell mine. This is my truth—the truth that it has taken me many years in recovery to finally believe: Conscious contact with God is the only thing that turns […]
Read More conscious contact, journaling, personal revelation, ponder, truth, twelve step, writingWe think of childbirth as an event—a one-time something that happens on a particular day at a particular time. Nowadays, it’s often an event we can schedule ahead and put in our planner. We don’t have to wait for it to happen on its own. We can book a room and induce labor, so that […]
Read More atonement, Christ, conversion, grace, personal revelation, repentanceTime trips me up. I’m constantly tempted to fear that my change of heart is taking too much time. That I’m not healing fast enough. That I’ll get to the end of my life and I won’t have progressed enough along the path of salvation. But then I remember that time-related words are for the […]
Read More change, mortality, personal revelation, timeSome people have acclimated so well to this world, to this lower, telestial glory that is based on practical, physical performances and possessions. Unfortunately, this glory that is sufficient for so many people’s needs, leaves other souls nearly undone with confusion and longing These confused, undone ones are the addicts—people whose sense of acclimation here, […]
Read More challenges, Christ, faith, imperfection, personal revelation, spirit, weaknessAnd now, my sons, remember, remember that it is upon the rock of our Redeemer, who is Christ, the Son of God, that ye must build your foundation; that when the devil shall send forth his mighty winds, yea, his shafts in the whirlwind, yea, when all his hail and his mighty storm shall beat […]
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