When I read my old missionary journal, I blush. I am sorely tempted to burn it. I am amazed how naïve I was! My fad diets were a nuisance to companions and the members who fed us. I was inconsiderate … Read more
Author: H. Wallace Goddard
Wally Goddard is a retired professor of Family Life having served in Arkansas and Alabama. He developed programs on personal well-being, marriage, and parenting. He is well known for his many creative family programs, including The Marriage Garden, The Parenting Journey, and Blueprint for Happiness. Wally has authored or co-authored several books including Between Parent and Child, The Soft-Spoken Parent, and Drawing Heaven into Your Marriage. He has been recognized by his colleagues with several awards including the Outstanding Family Life Educator Award. Wally and his wife, Nancy, have three adult children, fourteen grandchildren, and have cared for many foster children over the years. Wally describes Nancy as the finest human being he has ever known.
The Book of Mormon, A Latter-day Corrective #14: So Many Treasures!
If you’re like me, you have recently finished reading the Book of Mormon in response to the prophet’s invitation. I was sad as I finished. The experience was so enriching.
I know I can start reading the book over again. … Read more
The Book of Mormon, A Latter-day Corrective #13: His Image in Our Countenances
For years I have mused about the significance of receiving “His image in [our] countenances” (Alma 5:14). This is a marker for being spiritually born of God and having a mighty change of heart. I would like to think that … Read more
The Book of Mormon, A Latter-day Corrective #12: Portrait of Evil
The Book of Mormon contains some of the greatest insights into the Lord Jesus Christ and His Atonement found anywhere in sacred literature. It also teaches us about evil and its author. It seems that God wants us to be … Read more
The Book of Mormon, A Latter-day Corrective #11: Two Views of Conversion
Conversion might look quite different from the outside from what it feels like on the inside. The Book of Mormon blesses us with an extraordinary opportunity to study both an inside and outside view of the same conversion.
In Mosiah … Read more
The Book of Mormon, A Latter-day Corrective #10: Our Records Are Vital for Our Well-Being
I remember when I was a student at BYU. My fellow students and I enjoyed frequent and glorious sacrament meetings, firesides, and devotionals. Our youthful openness was met with heaven’s goodness―and we were blessed beyond measure!
I remember many times … Read more
The Book of Mormon, A Latter-day Corrective #9: Learning and Unlearning Hatred
Bertrand Russell made the terse observation that “few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.” We may vary in what we hate, but most of us have an enemy. It may be the government, … Read more
The Book of Mormon, A Latter-day Corrective #8: Sizing Up the Enemy
As we know, the Book of Mormon was written specifically with us in mind. So it is noteworthy that it has many passages about Satan. I suspect that God wants His latter-day children to understand their enemy. The Book of … Read more
The Book of Mormon, A Latter-day Corrective #7: The Easiness of the Way
Nancy and I recently watched the documentary Endurance, about British explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton’s 1914 excursion to cross the Antarctic continent on foot. Only a day’s journey from his final destination, Shackleton’s ship, the HMS Endurance, was trapped in ice. … Read more
The Book of Mormon, A Latter-day Corrective #6: Different Kinds of Self-Esteem
I suppose that most fish don’t have any idea what it is like to breathe air. They can’t imagine any way of “breathing” other than the one they use.
The same may be true for those of us immersed in … Read more