“There are certain things in life where you know it’s a mistake but you don’t really know it’s a mistake because the only way to really know it is a mistake is to make that mistake and look back and say, “Yup, that was a mistake”. So really, the bigger mistake would be to not…
Author: Emil Hanson
On Ordinary People
This thought came from a pamphlet by Reverend Frank S. Morley, Ph.D. a Presbyterian. The pamphlet was written in November of 1954 and was a presentation at the Grace Presbyterian Church in Calgary, Canada. The presentation was named “What we can Learn from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints (Commonly called the…
On Angels
I have written about Angels before but usually the ones that come back to earth as messengers to reveal new information to a prophet of God. This message is about all angels, even earthly angels, angels that live all around us, and there are many of them. There are many of us who have become…
On Letting the Universe Do Its Thing
I was watching a show on T.V. the other night called, ‘Swamp People’, a show about swamp men thinning out the swamp of an expanding population of alligators. Alligators are very dangerous animals and I believe that some even consider them to be prehistoric beasts. It is a very dangerous way to make a living….
On Israel
This brief summary of the terrible state of the Palestinian region is from my head and surely not accurate but rather based purely on what I have read and heard on TV. etc. The History of Israel begins with Abraham who was born sometime around 2050 B.C. Abraham was a man of great wealth. Great…
On “Hear Ye Him”
“The words of God, which he spoke unto Moses at a time when Moses was caught up into an exceedingly high mountain… and he talked with him, and the glory of God was upon Moses; therefore Moses could endure his presence. And God spoke unto Moses saying; “Behold, I am the Lord God Almighty…” P…
On Flywheels
Nature intended our thoughts to be a guide to action not a substitute for it. While I was finishing my studies for a doctoral degree, I was talking with a fellow educator at the university where I worked. I had heard him say, many times, that he, too, often thought about obtaining his advanced degree…
On Women’s Rights?
The story went like this, “Abortion on Demand w/o Apology. My wife and I were driving by as they stood outside the Planned Parenthood Clinic in Pittsburgh. “Look,” I said to my wife, “those are the so-called ‘escorts.’ They lead young women into the abortion clinic. Look at their smiles as they do their job.”…
On No Ordinary People
It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest, most uninteresting person, you can talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw their future now, you would be strongly tempted to worship. It is in the light of these overwhelming…
On Worry/Attitude, as Common Attributes
President Gordon B. Hinckley spoke with a Dr. James E. Enstrom of the University of California at Los Angeles. He is not a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, but he spoke with complete objectivity. Dr Enstrom’s studies indicate that actuarially speaking, member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day…