Fatigue-- A Common Enemy

graphic by Emmy Mom quote by Elder Jeffrey R. Holland

What measures are you taking to combat fatigue?

Be Still My Soul

The LDS Church just released this music video that shows a mother's journey out of drug addiction.

As you go about your Monday, remember:

Walk With Gratitude

Let Them See You In Me

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Prayer of the Children by Innovators

After watching the LDS General Conference, it's hard not to have the plight of refugees around the world on one's mind.

The song Prayer of the Children came on my pandora station today and it seemed fitting:

The LDS church also just launched the site I Was A Stranger, which gives suggestions on what you can do to serve others globally and locally. In my own research, I found a site called VolunteerMatch.org that helps you find local volunteer opportunities.

Since listening to General Conference, how has your perspective concerning service changed?

Rock of Our Redeemer

How has Christ been your rock?

Walking on Water

"The Hand of God" by Yongsung Kim

From the BYU Speech "Walking on Water" by Patricia T. Holland:

Madeleine L’Engle has said: “Peter was able to walk on the water until he remembered he didn’t know how” (Walking on Water [New York: Bantam Books 1982], p. 19).

Peter’s success hinged on his remembering it was through spiritual laws and not his own that he had power. In the frequently painful path from childhood to godhood, what temptations do we encounter that so divert our direction and cast clouds over our memory?

I have often heard, “When I was a child I believed everything was possible. I believed I could grow up to become anything I imagined. But then I grew up! There was anxiety in my home. I had self-defeating experiences in high school. My mission was more difficult than I expected. Now I’m often confused, depressed, and afraid.”

Perhaps you’ve heard those kinds of comments yourselves. Not only have we forgotten the glorious things we once knew, but we have also forgotten we were asked to endure some trying things—we who are children of Christ through adoption and the crucifixion. We too are to learn obedience by the things which we suffer.

I recently read the experience of a physician of another faith who was discharged from military service. He reported an alarming change in his civilian patients after being away from them for some time. He said:

Upon my return from the Army, I noticed a change in my previous patients’ troubles. I found that a high percentage do not need medicine but better [minds]. They are not sick in their bodies so much as they are sick in their [thinking] and emotions. They are all mixed up with fear, . . . inferior feelings, guilt, and resentment. I found that in treating them I needed to be about as much a psychiatrist as [an internist] and then I discovered that not even those therapies helped me fully to do my job. I became aware that in many cases the basic trouble with people was spiritual. [Norman Vincent Peale, The Power of Positive Thinking (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1965), p. 148].