I have received permission to share the following interchange. I share it with the hope that it might stir some thinking and sharing.
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Dear Wally,
Here’s another notion we have in the Church that troubles me – Self Mastery. … Read more
Reflecting with an old friend this morning, he asked the question: When did you change? When did everything become different?
My mind hopped around my life history looking for that one moment. When did it happen?
There was my mission … Read more
Recently a beloved missionary called to ask us a troubled question. “Why am I so weak and imperfect? All the people love Sister So-and-so. I’ll never be like her. I just want to give up.”
The instinctive response is to … Read more
Somewhere along the line I started regretting many circumstances and choices of my life. I was sorry that I had been raised in Emigration Canyon where I missed out on the normal social life that my peers enjoyed at the … Read more
Sometimes we parents make stupid pronouncements. For example, one morning I was teaching a parenting class and a mother told about a blow-up with her daughter the previous evening. She had made a special meal for her daughter to eat … Read more
The shortest route to work from my home takes me along Arkansas Highway 5—which carries a lot of traffic. The traffic moves well until the highway approaches an overpass. At that point the right lane goes to a freeway entrance … Read more
As I studied education at BYU, King Benjamin seemed more and more outlandish to me. He dwelt on our carnal state, being less than the dust of the earth, our nothingness, and our worthless and fallen state. I felt that … Read more