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When Being Right Isn’t Good Enough

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Almost twenty years ago Nancy and I were planning the landscaping around our new house. A landscape architect had recommended a cluster of three fruit trees at the corner of our property. We wondered if that was too many trees … Read more

Author H. Wallace GoddardPosted on January 12, 2008Categories UncategorizedLeave a comment on When Being Right Isn’t Good Enough

Marriage and the Parting of the Red Sea


There is nothing quite so helpful for mortals as total desperation. As long as there is even a sliver of hope that our efforts might remove us from our dilemmas, we are likely to keep floundering along. But when we … Read more

Author H. Wallace GoddardPosted on January 12, 2008Categories UncategorizedLeave a comment on Marriage and the Parting of the Red Sea

Conflict Resolution and the Creation of Peace


Nancy and I have some friends who have been married for a few years longer than we have been. They are earnest, good people. But they are human. A few years ago the husband was dragging home from work every … Read more

Author H. Wallace GoddardPosted on January 12, 2008Categories UncategorizedLeave a comment on Conflict Resolution and the Creation of Peace

The One Source for Happiness


It was always nice to sit with my Dad and talk of the gospel, his favorite topic. From time to time his words come back to me. “Many decisions are difficult because we have not made up our minds to … Read more

Author H. Wallace GoddardPosted on January 12, 2008Categories UncategorizedLeave a comment on The One Source for Happiness

“I Could Not Believe it Myself”

You don’t know me—you never will.
I don’t blame you for not believing my history;
had I not experienced it
[I] could not believe it myself.
(Words of Joseph Smith, p. 343)

Nancy and I recently saw the movie Joseph … Read more

Author H. Wallace GoddardPosted on January 12, 2008Categories UncategorizedLeave a comment on “I Could Not Believe it Myself”

The Mystery of Jesus


Jesus is and was a mystery. He just kept doing things that people didn’t expect and couldn’t deserve. He treated the adulterous woman at the well as if she were royalty. He frankly forgave the woman in the house of … Read more

Author H. Wallace GoddardPosted on January 12, 2008Categories UncategorizedLeave a comment on The Mystery of Jesus

The Lesson of the Washing Machine Hose

Okay. So the plumber inspected the house we had just bought. Among other things he told Nancy that it would be a good idea to replace the hoses on our washing machine. They could burst and flood the house. (It … Read more

Author H. Wallace GoddardPosted on January 12, 2008Categories UncategorizedLeave a comment on The Lesson of the Washing Machine Hose

Toddling toward Godliness

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When God gives us a potted miniature rose in full bloom, many of us feel both blessed and cursed. Where can I put it? How long will it stay in bloom? Do I know how to care for it? What … Read more

Author H. Wallace GoddardPosted on January 12, 2008Categories UncategorizedLeave a comment on Toddling toward Godliness

New Year Resolutions

The new year invites us to make resolutions. But too often resolutions merely accentuate our failings. Are we ever enlarged by our aspirations—or only reminded of our chronic failings?

For years my solution has been to avoid the whole mess. … Read more

Author H. Wallace GoddardPosted on January 1, 2008Categories Self DevelopmentLeave a comment on New Year Resolutions

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