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What Part of Imperfect Do We Not Understand?

We, as committed Latter-day Saints, are just as mortal as everyone else on the planet. We are prone to fear, codependency, doubt, worry, sin, and all the other beliefs and behaviors that lead to addiction and compulsion. When we find ourselves in these negative...

Addiction or Atonement—There Are Only Two Choices

Addiction, Christ, Mortality, Recovery

When you boil life down to the basics, you only have two choices for dealing with the discomforts of mortality. Either you choose addiction to dull the pain or you choose the peace of God and live (Alma 37:47). You can choose to become and/or remain an addict to...

Finding the Higher Way

God's In Charge, Led by Spirit, Recovery

As we humble ourselves and rely more and more on the Spirit to guide us, we begin to awaken to the truth that we are actually having a close relationship with all three delightful members of the Godhead. Through the mediation of the Holy Spirit, we begin to perceive...

Peaks and Valleys, Ebbs and Flows

God's In Charge, Mortality, Recovery

If you were in an intensive care unit, would you want the electrocardiogram to suddenly start producing a straight line? Of course not! As long as that line is going up and down, it means you’re alive. Let the line go straight, with no valleys and no peaks, or in...

Letting Go of the Fear of Time

Change of Heart, God's In Charge, Led by Spirit, Personal Revelation

Time 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...