I’ve been going through a challenging time in my life the past few months — not all bad, but challenging all the same. I’ve felt stretched and pushed to grow and to seek the Lord in new ways, to learn to lean on His atonement more than I ever have. I obviously have much still [...]
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I know this is the true Church of our Savior Jesus Christ and that we are led by a living prophet, Thomas S. Monson.
My story:
My life challenges started at a very early age. I was eight years old when I was first molested. He was a friend of the family and I had a child’s [...]
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Have we not been reassured about the fall of one sparrow and that the very hairs of our heads are numbered? (see Matt. 10:29–30; D&C 84:80). God is in the details! (Neal A. Maxwell, “Encircled in the Arms of His Love,” Ensign, Nov. 2002, 16)
During a routine obstetric ultrasound I was told that I [...]
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It seems to me that in the times of my greatest need or frustration I feel like the words I pray to my Heavenly Father are falling from my lips and onto the floor. I know in my heart that I am not really alone during the winter seasons in my life, but it can [...]
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Melanie shares some quotes that have made a difference in her life:
Our individual experiences may not always be unique, but they are always authentic. God will even take into account our perceptions of, as well as our responses to, our trials. For those of us who do not, for instance, find claustrophobia a challenge, it [...]
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I don’t know when he started saying it, but Dad’s mantra is one that I heard often. I’m sure I will pass onto my own children.
To struggle is the program.
Of course, you can imagine the kinds of conversations that brought on that teaching. Who wants to hear that the pain and struggle they are going [...]
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