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Alma 30-31 Alma 31 is one of my favorite “how-to” chapters in the Book of Mormon. Probably because it details how Alma collided with “superior,” difficult egos and then rose above the challenge they presented. Regrettably, we all face unreasonable, selfish people at some point or another. In this chapter, Alma guides us through the…
Alma 23-29 Imagine yourself going through this doorway to a happier self. Of all people, we as Latter-day Saints should be the most optimistic and the least pessimistic…Let us remember that the real source of our strength and happiness is beyond the reach of men and circumstances. Ezra Taft Benson Ammon had been tied up,…
Alma 17-22 Leaving our comfort zones used to be a choice. Now we find our comfort zones leaving us. Whether it’s the pandemic, the riots, earthquakes, lock-down, finances, hurricanes, political party instability, fear and worry, the disbanding of police, unemployment, persecutions or hostility – I’ve certainly felt the apprehension. My question is, how do we…
Alma 13-16 Whenever I share the “4 Peace-making Responses for Difficult Situations” people write them down (end of blog post). They are life-savers for those awkward moments and difficult people! The Heroes Alma and Amulek’s persecution in Ammonihah is horrific. Nonetheless, their silence and refusal to engage with their tormentors is inspirational. Whereas, sometimes I…
Alma 8-12 Alma sketches Christ with heart-felt words and they captured my soul. I love his powerful, poetic description of the Savior which could be a complete gospel doctrine lesson, all by itself. “And not many days hence the Son of God shall come in his glory; and his glory shall be the glory of the Only Begotten…