The following story is about laying up treasures on earth. If you could take worldly treasures with you to heaven they would only melt. Any earthly business could never be as profitable to us as our Father’s business; the Savior said that He because all that the Father hath shall be ours. David Whitmer prayed…
Author: Emil Hanson
On A World So Big
We live in a world that is so big that people can get lost in it. My wife was reading a story to me about an American pilot shot down over France during the second world war. Neither the U.S. Government nor his family knew what had become of him until long after that war…
On All Labor is Honorable
Young children are often asked what they want to be when they grow up? Their answers are usually some vocation that they are acquainted with such as a fireman, a policeman or they may say they want to be what their father or mother does. I believe that most people end up doing what they…
On Pride and Humility
One of the struggles that most people have to deal with is the struggle we have between pride and humility. Thus the oxymoron: “I’m humbled by and yet proud of my achievement.” or; “I am so proud of my humility.” On the one hand we are encouraged to be industrious, to maximize our talents and…
On Influence
There are some men and women in whose company we are at our best, they seem to elevate our souls. There is a story that I am sure I’ve told before but it is worth repeating: An old farmer had a work horse he plowed his fields with and used for all his work. Every…
On Physical and Spiritual Survival
I have donated my blood every couple of months, most of my adult life. My type O blood is the kind that is suitable for use in stabilizing babies and small children as well as adults. Blood is an amazing liquid. It is the elixir of life without which there is no life, at all….
On The Mysteries of Godliness
Preface: Who is there, that has not wondered who God is? Where did He get His power? Why is it that even the elements obey His voice? Why did He tell us to be perfect even as He is; is that even possible? Why are humans so special that He tries to improve us and…
On Things Change
Last night I was watching a mystery, a real live murder mystery on television, how a husband was accused of murdering his wife. They had a two year old boy and his wife was 4 months pregnant with their second child at the time he murdered her. Pictures were shown of their wedding and early…
On Donating Life
Most of us still living, seldom think of those who are dead, We mourn them for a while and then, only on the date of their birth, the day of their death and/or Memorial Day, do we think of them and maybe shed a tear for our loss. Other times when we see a picture…
On Symbolism
Symbolism is so common a practice in our world that most of us have and use symbols without even being aware of them. I watch a TV show called the ‘American Pickers’ every once in a while, where two people travel around the country looking for people they call collectors. These collectors have collected stuff…