Two of my children dislike being surprised. I’ve told each of them to buckle up if they don’t like surprises, because life is full of them! Good ones and bad ones, they seem to be around every corner. And I do understand why surprises unnerve some people; they like to
I had a pit in my stomach the first few weeks after we moved from Utah to Virginia, feeling somewhat like the baby eagles who are pushed from their cliff-high nests by their weary mothers and plummet wildly to the ground. When I’ve seen these nature documentaries with pictures of
Meridian Magazine Podcast · Come Follow Me OT Podcast 51, “I Have Loved You, Saith the Lord,” — Malachi Turning the hearts of the fathers to the children and the children to the fathers is one of the most important works in mortality. It has been the burden of the ages
In the last part (Part Two) of this series, we learned of Academic Vice President Shane Reese’s bold call (echoing President Kimball’s “Second Century Address”) for BYU faculty to embrace a “gospel methodology,” that is, to approach their various specialized areas of study from the standpoint of eternal truths. We
It started with a headache—and I don’t get headaches. I had just returned from leading a tour in Israel and had a sinus infection, so I wondered if that was the cause. Yet anything that I could label a normal headache quickly escalated until, within a couple of hours, the
We sometimes incorrectly think of our covenants as fragile things that will break at the first sign of challenge or setback. But nothing could be further from the truth. Covenants are cords of iron that are stronger than the bonds of death itself. We must learn to trust in their
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To read the previous part of this story, CLICK HERE. Mrs. Levi said that when William had asked her to marry him, her uncle refused to give his permission because he wanted her to remain as a servant in their home. She was only seventeen, and the state law said