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Healing From the Inside Out—A Metaphor

I had an old van once. It was a very old van that would hold 14 people—twelve of them children. You can imagine that with twelve kids running around and through and sometimes over and under that van, it ended up with a lot of dents and scrapes and dings. It looked...

There Is No Other Way But The Way of Imperfection (Part 2)

Christ, Perfectionism, Recovery

Read Part 1 Yesterday, we discussed how recovery often comes in an ebb and flow pattern of sanity and serenity. We find peace through Christ, and then we wander off to try life on our own again. I have to confess that it has been very hard for me to accept that is is...

There Is No Other Way But The Way of Imperfection (Part 1)

Christ, Perfectionism

I have found that peace which passeth understanding, which only Christ can give (Philippians 4:7). In Him I have found a perfect brightness of hope that shines through even the deepest darkness. I have sanity and serenity because of His living presence in my life. (He...

The Lord Chooses Good Men

Led by Spirit

Lately it has become fashionable to expose the weaknesses of the founders of our country, claiming them to be adulterers, homosexual, power-hungry, and generally not worthy of our esteem. But the Book of Mormon silences those voices. I know this: The Lord chooses...

Mormons Are Mortals Too!

Mormons, Mortality

As card-carrying members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, we have a tendency to deny our mortality. But we can only live in denial for so long before the big fat truth of our understanding lands on us like the proverbial ton of bricks and we are...