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Letting Our Trials Refine Us

I’ve been feeling a little put upon lately. Well, to be honest, for the past several years. And it’s been ticking me off so much that I’ve gained 40 pounds. And that ticks me off too. And in the midst of my ticked-offedness this morning, I read this verse of...

Free Step Friday: Offering Our Whole Souls (Step 3)

Step 3, Twelve Steps, writing

What is Free Step Friday (#freestepfriday)? Click here for details. Scripture: Omni 1:26—Offer your whole souls as an offering unto him. How much plainer can it be stated? Our whole soul—body and spirit. This is the ultimate act of consecration. It is to come full...

We Are All Special Needs Children

God's In Charge

While in mortality, we are all special needs children. We are babies. We all have our unique set of quirks and flaws and disabilities. We are the equivalent of children who are temporarily handicapped, blinded as we are by the veil—blinded and muffled—wrapped in...

The Pain or the Purpose

God's In Charge

We have to accept that life is a battle between two forces—the Truth and the Lie; Christ and the Liar. That’s just the way it is. The tug and pull, the on-again-off-again phenomenon is inevitable. We must also accept that we have no ability to determine the ratio of...

Who Are We Going to Fear/Believe?

Change of Heart, God's In Charge, Recovery

“Fearing” another could be equated with “believing” another. When we “fear” others more than God, it is the equivalent of believing others more than God. We have troubled, angry, hurting parents, for example, who tell us negative things about ourselves. But we go to...