Meridian Magazine:: Line Upon Line: Redefining Our Self

Meridian Magazine:: Line Upon Line: Redefining Our Self

Meridian Magazine:: Line Upon Line: The Spiritual Stress Cycle

Meridian Magazine:: Line Upon Line: The Spiritual Stress Cycle

Meridian Magazine :: Arts: Watching Movies on the Sabbath?

I love this, because we do the same in our family. We do our best to keep the Sabbath day Holy, and part of that is that we don't do things we would normally do during the week. If the kids want to watch a movie, that is fine, but it has to be something that is spiritually uplifting, something that turns our hearts to our Savior. There are several movies that you can get at the LDS Distribution Center, Seagull Book & Tape, or even Deseret Book to name a few that have some great spiritually uplifting movies for the whole family. We also love the movie Facing the Giants - which is absolutely spiritually moving!

Meridian Magazine :: Arts: Watching Movies on the Sabbath?

Seek the Higher Ground

How I learned to mind my own business

I got this in an email, and it just made me smile. I thought I would share it with you.

I was walking past the mental hospital the other day, I could hear a lot of the patients shouting, '13....13....13.'

The fence was too high to see over, but I saw a little gap in the planks, so I looked through to see what was going on.....

Some idiot poked me in the eye with a stick!

Then they all started shouting, '14....14....14'...

Have We Not Reason to Rejoice?

"Enduring to the end, or remaining faithful to the laws and ordinances of the gospel of Jesus Christ throughout our life, is a fundamental requirement for salvation in the kingdom of God...Therefore, enduring to the end is not just a matter of passively tolerating life’s difficult circumstances or “hanging in there.” Ours is an active religion, helping God’s children along the strait and narrow path to develop their full potential during this life and return to Him one day... Enduring to the end is a process filling every minute of our life, every hour, every day, from sunrise to sunrise. It is accomplished through personal discipline following the commandments of God."

--Dieter F. Uchtdorf, "Have We Not Reason to Rejoice?", Ensign, Nov 2007, 18–21

D&C 14:7

Does the Journey Seem Long, Hymn #127

Meridian Magazine:: Line Upon Line: When God Lets Us Be Cast into a Pit

One more example of putting our trials, no matter what they may be in perspective and needing the faith to get through, choosing improvement in your life, choosing to better yourself....

Meridian Magazine:: Line Upon Line: When God Lets Us Be Cast into a Pit

Meridian Magazine : : Church Update: Healing America, One Family and One Individual At a Time

This is absolutely inspirational...

Meridian Magazine : : Church Update: Healing America, One Family and One Individual At a Time

Mothers

"As mothers in Israel, we are the Lord’s secret weapon. Our influence comes from a divine endowment that has been in place from the beginning. In the premortal world, when our Father described our role, I wonder if we didn’t stand in wide-eyed wonder that He would bless us with a sacred trust so central to His plan and that He would endow us with gifts so vital to the loving and leading of His children. I wonder if we shouted for joy at least in part because of the ennobling stature He gave us in His kingdom. The world won’t tell you that, but the Spirit will."

--Sheri L. Dew, "Are We Not All Mothers?", Ensign, Nov 2001, 96

Moses 4:26

I Often Go Walking, The Children's Songbook #202

Meridian Magazine :: Can Do Youth: Perspective: Seeing Things as They Really Are

Meridian Magazine :: Can Do Youth: Perspective: Seeing Things as They Really Are

Scripture Enlightening Moment

Last night, I read in The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ, Alma 24:30, it reads "And thus we can plainly discern, that after a people have been once enlightened by the Spirit of God, and have had great knowledge of things pertaining to righteousness, and then have fallen away into sin and transgression, they become more hardened, and thus their state becomes worse than though they had never known these things."

I think about this, in that we all sin, but if we fall into sin w/out repentance, and part of repentance is acknowledging the wrong (our own actions or not actions) in the first place. But even with the atonement, if a trial you're going through is a direct result of someone else we can still put these trials in the Lord's hands, do our best and move forward. I think sometimes people blame others even if it isn't their fault - either way, you have a choice not to stay in misery, you have a choice to leave it behind you, forgive, forget, and move forward. We've all been given a great gift of atonement, we have all be given the opportunity to choose a better path, through prayer and through the spirit or the holy ghost we can know truth, we can gain a testimony and we can move forward by nurturing. If we altogether stop nurturing, of course our strong testimony is going to falter, doubts will come, bitterness, hate, depression amongst so many other feelings that can either destroy our knowledge of truth or strengthen our knowledge of truth. And you know, truth will set you free esp if you choose to take that truth into your life and live it.

Blessings

"God tends to pour blessing on people going in a direction He wants them to go."
Dave Ramsey

Meridian Magazine:: Line Upon Line: Rubbing Shoulders with the Prophets: Readers Share Their Experiences

Meridian Magazine:: Line Upon Line: Rubbing Shoulders with the Prophets: Readers Share Their Experiences

'Love Language Minute: The Art of Raising Childern'

'Love Language Minute: The Art of Raising Childern'

Meridian Magazine : : Church Update: 180th Annual General Conference: Saturday Morning Speech Excerpts

As always, General Conference was spiritually uplifting in so many ways! Loved it!

Meridian Magazine : : Church Update: 180th Annual General Conference: Saturday Morning Speech Excerpts

Enjoy Life

"The trick is to enjoy life. Don't wish away your days, waiting for better ones ahead"
— Marjorie Pay Hinckley

Meridian Magazine :: Can Do Youth: We Are What We Think

Meridian Magazine :: Can Do Youth: We Are What We Think

Meridian Magazine :: Articles : Three Perspectives on the Atonement

Meridian Magazine :: Articles : Three Perspectives on the Atonement

Meridian Magazine :: Family Home Evening: Having Christ in Your Countenance

I have seen this before, probably have done it in Young Woman's at one time, but I think it is a great teaching tool. In fact, I think we might just do that with Hunter next FHE. Tonight, I'd like to focus on the true meaning of Easter.

Meridian Magazine :: Family Home Evening: Having Christ in Your Countenance

Meridian Magazine :: Healthy Habits: A Lost and Found Story

The Message of the Daffodils....

Meridian Magazine :: Healthy Habits: A Lost and Found Story

Nick Vujicic :: Attitude is Altitude :: No Arms, No Legs, No Worries

This is amazing! This is motivating! This is a reminder to count our blessings in our life! This is a reminder when life feels like it isn't getting any better, to remember to never give up, to remember the life is a gift, that life is absolutely wonderful! Trials are for a short time, if we choose to work through them and come out for the better!

Nick Vujicic :: Attitude is Altitude :: No Arms, No Legs, No Worries

Meridian Magazine:: People: Behind the Scenes of the LDS Miracle Story Featured on Today Show

This is absolutely inspirational! A must read! Make sure you watch the YouTube video at the end. God is Good, Faith does promote miracles.God is a God of miracles, absolutely!

What a great example that the Staker family had in showing the world about faith and the outcome of putting forth faith.

Meridian Magazine:: People: Behind the Scenes of the LDS Miracle Story Featured on Today Show

Meridian Magazine :: Family Connections: What Can You Really Control?

Meridian Magazine :: Family Connections: What Can You Really Control?

Meridian Magazine :: Can Do Youth: The Master’s Success Formula

Meridian Magazine :: Can Do Youth: The Master’s Success Formula

Meridian Magazine:: Becoming a Zion Person: My Yoke is Easy and My Burden is Light

Meridian Magazine:: Becoming a Zion Person: My Yoke is Easy and My Burden is Light

'Love Language Minute: What is love?'

'Love Language Minute: What is love?'

This reminds me a lot of the movie "Fireproof" and the book that originated from the movie, "The Love Dare." Love is definitely a choice.

Relief Society Birthday

The Relief Society was founded by the Prophet Joseph Smith in 1842 in Nauvoo, Illinois. The Relief Society serves under the direction of the priesthood. It assists priesthood leaders to help sisters and their families come unto Christ. It helps each sister and their families receive all essential priesthood ordinances, keep the associated covenants, and qualify for exaltation and eternal life.

The following objectives support the purpose of Relief Society:

1. Build faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and His Atonement.
2. Uphold, nourish, and protect families.
3. Provide Relief.

All women 18 years and older as well as women younger than 18 who are married or are single mothers, are welcomed into the sisterhood of Relief Society.

The motto is "Charity Never Faileth".

Meridian Magazine : : Church Update: “The Protection of Angels”: Chilean Missionaries Tell Their Stories

Meridian Magazine : : Church Update: “The Protection of Angels”: Chilean Missionaries Tell Their Stories

I Was Really Here

"I don't want to drive up to the pearly gates in a shiny sports car, wearing beautiful tailored clothes, my hair expertly coiffed, and with long, perfectly manicured fingernails. I want to drive up in a station wagon that has mud on the wheels from taking kids to scout camp. I want to be there with grass stains on my shoes from mowing Sister Schenk's lawn. I want to be there with a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt form making sandwiches for a sick neighbor's children. I want to be there with a little dirt under my nails from helping weed someone's garden. I want to be there with children's sticky kisses on my cheek and the tears of a friend on my shoulder. I want the Lord to know I was really here and that I really lived. "
— Marjorie Pay Hinckley

I absolutely love Marjorie Hinckley and miss her wit and insight. This is one of my favorite quotes from her, including the one where she says something along the lines of choosing laughter over crying, because crying gives her a headache. Choices can make or break us, sometimes they break us for a little bit and we are made to our fullest potential in the end, but it is the choices that get us there. It's also about changing our perception to see how blessed we really are, leaving the wants behind and cherishing what we have in the here and now. I know, as I have seen it in my own life and others, that when we do our part that the Lord expects of us, hopes of us, He in turn can do His part and bless us in ways that we never thought possible. I love being a mom, and am grateful for the opportunity that I can be a mom after the many challenges I have faced with several miscarriages and coming to a point that I thought that I would never have this blessing in my life. I have my days, as everyone does of pulling my hair out --- maybe that is where all my gray comes from. But nevertheless, I do enjoy the life that has been given to me and do my best to make the choices that like Marjorie Hinckley, I want the Lord to know I was really here and that I really lived.

Meridian Magazine:: Line Upon Line: Friday Minute: When Earthquakes Strike

Meridian Magazine:: Line Upon Line: Friday Minute: When Earthquakes Strike