As a mother in the go-go of Christmas preparations, I don’t have to look far to find a Grinch. Too often, when I want to feel the holiday spirit the most, I show it the least, and to those I love the best. This Christmas, try using the childhood adage of “stop, look and listen” …
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Repeatedly in the scriptures we see the Savior’s patience—with His disciples, with the multitude, with the Pharisees. He patiently taught gospel truths, despite their difficulty in processing them. He patiently showed civic duty by paying taxes though He was the Son of God. And patiently modeled forbearance, as when He had fed the 5,000 and …
Winding down to the magical Christmas Eve and you still feel there’s too much on your to-do list? Stop. Breathe. And trim your pursuits while you trim the tree. Life Coach and Author Connie Sokol shares one simple formula that will simplify your holiday season. Winding down to the magical Christmas Eve and you still …
Matthew 13:55 “55 Is not this the carpenter’s son? is not his mother called Mary? and his brethren, James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas? 56 And his sisters, are they not all with us? Whence then hath this man all these things? 57 And they were offended in him. But Jesus said unto them, …
John 10:10 “10 … I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.” This is one of my FAVORITE scriptures! I love how positive and other-focused it is. The Savior’s purpose for coming here, for all that He endured and experienced, is that we all might have life, …
Matthew 27:31-32 “31 And after that they had mocked him, they took the robe off from him, and put his own raiment on him, and led him away to crucify him. 32 And as they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name: him they compelled to bear his cross.” Each time …
Luke 8:49-55 49 While he yet spake, there cometh one from the ruler of the synagogue’s house, saying to him, Thy daughter is dead; trouble not the Master. 50 But when Jesus heard it, he answered him, saying, Fear not: believe only, and she shall be made whole… 52 And all wept, and bewailed her: …
Matthew 14:27 “27 But straightway Jesus spake unto them, saying, Be of good cheer; it is I; be not afraid.” John 16:30 “33 These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.” I …
Luke 10:39-42 “39 And she had a sister called Mary, which also sat at Jesus’ feet, and heard his word. 40 But Martha was cumbered about much serving, and came to him, and said, Lord, dost thou not care that my sister hath left me to serve alone? bid her therefore that she help me. …
John 15:13 “13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. 14 Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.” One of my favorite stories in the Bible is when the palsied man is carried to the Savior by his four friends. Paraphrasing, …
