Our Saviour endured and overcame His hardest thing, and through it, gained the power to help us overcome our hardest things. We, too, must go through our own Gethsemane experiences, and with the power that Christ gained from His Gethsemane, ours, too, will become our beautiful triumph and not our shame. Continue reading The paradox of hard things
We’re all, it seems, trying to prove ourselves good enough to each other: smart enough, successful enough, kind enough, talented enough, dedicated or brave enough. Enough to be accepted, admired, loved, appreciated, chosen, left alone, or believed. And yet, none of us is really any of these things. We’re not beautiful or kind or brave … Continue reading The Frantic Quest
I was reading Alma 42:3-7 the other day for my morning scripture study, and pondering the meaning of these elements: the tree of life versus the tree of knowledge – why it was important to separate man from the tree of life once they’d partaken of the fruit from the tree of knowledge, why giving … Continue reading ‘A time granted unto man to repent’: the mercy of mortality
Eternal life isn’t just something we will receive later on, after death and judgement. It’s not just a place, or a way of living that will start at this future point. Our trials aren’t just payment we deposit for many years and receive the benefits of much later on. Continue reading Eternal life: the reward of tribulation
As I’ve mentioned, I’ve been struggling recently (again, again) with the huge and yawning gap between who I am and who I want to be. And the difficulty isn’t just about those nice spiritual characteristics one wants to have to be a ‘good’ person, but everything – everything… including the seeming impossibility of any path … Continue reading Now v. Then
Peaceable Treasures 