Forgiving Ourselves Can Sometimes Be The Hardest
Sometimes the person hardest to forgive, as we go through life, is ourselves. Even when we try with all our might to do our best it is sometimes not good enough and we just plain mess up. This is a...
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I am the learner/student/servant. I am the messenger. I seek the Holy Ghost and his direction along the way. You might say I consider the Holy Ghost The Master Communicator of the teachings of The...
View ArticleKnowledge of Christ Gives Me Courage to go Forward
On the blog talk radio program, Scriptures for the Latter Days http://tobtr.com/s/4505593, we talked about freedom in two different contexts. One was the Israelites as they left Egypt, in Exodus...
View ArticleChrist is what gives me courage to go forward.
If only we could look to Christ instead of looking at one another. If our thoughts were first what would Jesus have me do we would be focused on who we are and not who others are. Christ is our answer....
View ArticleShattered and Shell Shocked
How do I let people know who I truly am and what I am feeling right now when I am so shell shocked, disappointed, and heart broken I have one of two choices, to crumble into a blob on the floor and...
View ArticleThere Are Kindnesses All Around
I just had to add this footnote and say that I do know that there are those who do kindnesses all around us. And I am grateful for that. I have many in the branch (congregation) that I attend at church...
View ArticleFreedom To Serve, Is To Acknowledge Ourselves In Others
Freedom to be part of something bigger than ourselves, at least our immediate, physical self. That is a gift given by the creator and that we may choose to give of ourselves. Births and weddings and...
View ArticleRecognition of Our Vulnerability and Complete Reliance On God
Freedom requires recognition of our vulnerability and complete reliance on God. This is intrinsic in the reality of all truth for only God is truth and only in God may truth be found. In fact, complete...
View ArticleSharing Ideas Equals Freedom
The sharing of ideas among mankind is a part of the growing process and leads to continual development and awareness. It is not something that we need to be afraid of. We want to have ears that hear so...
View ArticleThe Battle for Freedom is the Battle for the Right to Believe, to Exercise...
The battle for freedom is the battle for the right to believe. The right to exercise faith in truth or in falsehood, In that which brings growth, light, and life to intellect, spirit, and/or body or...
View ArticleFreedom Requires Leadership
Freedom requires leadership, first of the self, then for others. It is accountable. It is self reflecting and self analyzing. It is constantly changing in small ways to correct itself to the fullness...
View ArticleTrue Freedom Is Freedom From Fear Of The “Other”
When one has attained real freedom what others do or do not do has no bearing on who you are as an individual and before God. This is obtained by developing a relationship based on integrity and honest...
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verbalizing verbal/emotional abuse….recognizing it and doing something about it…mainly acknowledging it… there is a significant difference in being upset or even disgusted with an event and being...
View ArticleOrganizaional Religion Should Not Take Your Personal Values Away
I re-read a statement in a book on leadership that I read a couple months ago. “When someone joins an organization, that organization’s values eventually take precedence over the individuals values.” I...
View Article“…Freedom is everybody’s job…”
I had to put this up today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZBTyTWOZCM Red Skelton 1969 on the Pledge of Allegiance I grew up in school saying this pledge daily. I am so grateful for this because it...
View ArticleFreedom Means Knowing You Will Be Misjudged And You Have To “Chill”
If you are going to be free you are going to need to think for yourself and this is not something that is accepted in society. Even the “outliers” tend to have a group that they interact within and if...
View ArticleFreedom Comes With Giving The Reins To Christ
Freedom is what you feel when you are in line with the laws…all the laws, not man’s laws (I do not know if there is anyone who could be in line with all of those, there are so many and they are so...
View ArticleClarification on Where I Stand
Someone sent me a tweet that said “I look forward to reading your tweets!”. When I wrote a thank you back she had dropped me. It kind of rattled me. Chuckle, I guess it should not bother me, I want...
View Article“Enlightened”
“Enlightened” Born into a world of abuse and neglect, where abound the traps of self pity, addiction, and self contempt. Through Christ I am healed. The era of the pit of “the carrot” and “the dole”...
View ArticleFreedom Means You Are Vulnerable/With Armor :)
Vulnerable/With Armor; this means that you know who you are and what your weaknesses are or at least that you honor as much as you do know. No one likes to admit that they are vulnerable, that they can...
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