Peaks and Valleys, Ebbs and Flows

Peaks and Valleys, Ebbs and Flows

God's In Charge, Mortality, Recovery

If you were in an intensive care unit, would you want the electrocardiogram to suddenly start producing a straight line?  Of course not!  As long as that line is going up and down, it means you’re alive.  Let the line go straight, with no valleys and no peaks, or in...
Peaks and Valleys, Ebbs and Flows

All These Things Shall Work Together

Agency, God's In Charge, Mortality

Therefore, he giveth this promise unto you, with an immutable covenant that they shall be fulfilled; and all things wherewith you have been afflicted shall work together for your good, and to my name’s glory, saith the Lord. (D&C 98:3) As I consider the pain of...
Peaks and Valleys, Ebbs and Flows

Lamentations

Christ, Mortality

Lamentations is not just a short but depressing book in the Bible. It’s a testament to the mercy and goodness of God. In Lamentations, Jeremiah bewails the condition of his world—sorrow, misery, desolation, calamity, sin, iniquity… Sound familiar? Just listen to the...
Peaks and Valleys, Ebbs and Flows

Mormons Are Mortals Too!

Mormons, Mortality

As card-carrying members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, we have a tendency to deny our mortality. But we can only live in denial for so long before the big fat truth of our understanding lands on us like the proverbial ton of bricks and we are...