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First Person: The Little Details

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 [...]

First Person: “To Struggle is the Program” (or Life is a Process, Not a Bunch of Events)

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 [...]