Have Faith & Move Forward
Después de haber estado casado solamente por un año y medio, he llegado a la conclusión de que el matrimonio no es para mí. <Por favor, antes de empezar a hacer suposiciones o pasar juicio a este artículo, sigue leyendo.> Conocí a mi esposa en la escuela secundaria cuando teníamos 15 años. Fuimos amigos durante…
Sounds a bit sacrilegious doesn’t it? Well, it’s true. And not only have I met Jesus, but I once dated Mary, saw Emma Smith in concert, spoke with Joseph Smith’s pastor, washed my hands with Pilate, and challenged Joseph Smith to a stick pull contest. Ah, important detail: all of these individuals were actors portraying these characters. I met…
Here are a few of my favorite quotes to read when I’m depressed or going through hard times. Please feel free to add your own inspiring quotes in the comments section. Let’s make a list of all the best quotes so we can help anyone that’s struggling with depression. “Getting better from depression demands a…
I believe that within each of us there is a sinner and a saint. In many ways, it is like the legend of the two wolves. An old Cherokee chief was teaching his grandson about life. “A fight is raging within my soul,” he told the boy. “It is a terrible fight between two wolves. “One is evil—he…
How do you move forward in life if you have a physical or mental limitation? How do you move forward in life if you have a disability? “Really, everybody has disabilities,” says Cassi Baird. “Some you can see and some are internal. But anybody can do anything that they want as long as they put…
“The chief thing is to love others like yourself, that’s the chief thing, and that’s everything; nothing else is wanted…And yet it’s an old truth which has been told and retold a billion times — but it has not formed part of our lives!” (Fyodor Dostoyevsky) As some of you may know, I served a…
“Both abundance and lack [of abundance] exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend … when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that’s present—love, health, family, friends, work, the joys of…
Although separated by an ocean, several decades, and completely different audiences, it is remarkable how strikingly similar Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles (1891) and Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter (1850) are to one another. In what ways are these two books so similar? More importantly, what is the primary message that these two authors—separated…
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