What happens when you return to a sacred place expecting to feel what you felt years ago, but God gives you something different? My second visit to the Sacred Grove taught me that sometimes we don’t need another witness. Sometimes we simply need to remember, with gratitude, the one already given.
Tag: personal revelation
Distort. Turn from truth. Twist. Pervert.
Context is important. I was intrigued by a recent article that accused someone of “quote mining”. A new term to me, it basically means to purposefully take “quotes out of context in order to make them seemingly agree with the point of view you are trying to get across.”1 I thought of the quote mining article…
Don’t Let Emotion Cloud Your Judgement
Zeniff is described a few times in Mosiah as overzealous–eager to excess. His objective was to regain the Land of Lehi-Nephi. Probably not a bad pursuit. But he wanted it so much that it seems to have clouded his judgement; he covenants with King Laman that he would be allowed to possess the land. But,…
When Your Bow Breaks What Will You Do?
Sometimes the thing we were depending on breaks. Nephi could have joined everyone else in complaining, but instead he made another bow and then sought the Lord’s direction. His experience offers a simple pattern for our own broken plans: do what we can, move forward, and trust God with what comes next.