art by Eva Timothy I’ve noticed a negative thought the past couple of years that circles around my head when I am being productive or working towards a goal, but feeling discouraged by things I still have to do: “I am trying my best and it isn’t enough.” I know it is a negative thought … More It doesn’t have to be complete to be called good.
Joseph F. Smith had a rough life trajectory going. As a child, he had to peek over the coffin to see his father, Hyrum’s, bullet-ridden body. Then, his mother died when he was 13, leaving him an orphan. Joseph described the year and a half after his mother died as “perilous times. . . . … More “We can’t direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.”
Gardeners will water and fertilize the spot they planted a Chinese bamboo tree seed for five years with no sign of growth above the surface. FIVE YEARS. And then, it will grow 90 feet in 5 weeks! Was the tree dormant for those five years? No, it was developing a complex root system under the … More “Our future will be determined far less by our starting point and much more by our slope.”
“Dreary and underdeveloped.”“Backwater trading post.”“Godless and rough.” These were the words to describe the land upon which Zion would be built. Many of the Saints were disappointed. Many couldn’t see how anything good could come from such a place. Joseph himself cried to the Lord in anguish, “When will the wilderness blossom as the rose?” … More “Sometimes, when you are in a dark place and you think you’ve been buried, you’ve actually been planted.”
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