• Mar 17, 2016

    The Purpose of Life

    Over the past few months, I have come to a deeper understanding of just what life is all about. I confess that the Plan of Salvation has never adequately explained the “why” of life to me. It only really explains the “what”. It explains what happened, what is happening, and what might happen. But it doesn’t really explain why it needs to happen that way.

  • Mar 13, 2016

    A Conversation

    I had a conversation with God yesterday, and this is part of what He said to me:

  • Feb 28, 2016

    Appeal to Tradition

    One of the most damning things we can do is refuse to consider new ideas because they contradict “the way we’ve always done it.” There is no more sure way to utterly cease the possibility of learning than to decry that it breaks with tradition.

  • Dec 5, 2015

    It is not the same

    How often have we heard the admonition that we must follow the prophet because whenever he speaks, it is as if God’s speaking, because “it is the same”? I hear this very frequently, and every time I do, I am saddened at how we repeat the words of others without bothering to read the scriptures for ourselves.

  • Nov 14, 2015

    God will make up for it?

    Saying “In the end, God will make up for it” is nothing more than a cheap and dirty way of not wanting to take responsibility for the consequences of your actions.

  • Nov 5, 2015

    Suffering

    The LDS Church has changed its doctrine on apostasy to now include those who “are in a same-gender marriage.” By extension, the children of such couples are also being punished: they can not be blessed in the Church, and in order to receive ordinances must disavow the marriage of their parents.

  • Oct 25, 2015

    The Well

    1. Now Joseph's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth hour.
    2. There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink.
    3. Jesus ... said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.
    4. The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water?
    5. Art thou greater than our father Joseph Smith, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?
    6. Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again:
    7. But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
  • Oct 3, 2015

    The Traveler

    A certain man was walking down a road, enjoying the beautiful scenery. After a while, he stopped to rest.

  • Sep 11, 2015

    The Philosophies of Men

    A couple of days ago I was driving in my car, and a thought very forcefully came to my mind:

  • Sep 4, 2015

    Breakthrough

    I had a breakthrough recently.