Category: perseverance

The word "Can’t"

February 6, 2012 | 4 comments

A friend was explaining to me that when he was a kid, whenever he went to his mom with a complaint of, “I can’t do my homework,” or “I can’t figure out my problem,” or “I can’t do this,” or

Count the cost

January 30, 2012 | 4 comments

Have you ever started a project but were unable to finish? If so, did you “count the cost,” before you started? One time, when Jesus instructed his followers that they had to leave everything to follow him, he shared two parables

Break out

December 8, 2011 | 1 comment

Are you under the power of frustration’s dark spell? Then remember this truth and ponder it well… The tiniest chick must break its own shell.   ~ Author unknown     Each and every one of us has the shell-breaking

Catch the wave

November 30, 2011 | 3 comments

I was watching my two children take surf lessons with a group of beginners last week off the coast of Kailua-Kona, in Hawaii.  The waves were minimal, but enough to teach one how to stand upright on a board and

Big weeds, medium weeds and little weeds

October 13, 2011 | 6 comments

At a Wednesday night testimony meeting, a woman shared her experience pulling weeds that taught valuable metaphysical lessons. She recounted how a garden area at the boundary of her yard had overgrown in weeds this summer from neglect. In a