There are many filters in life and if you ask certain tradesmen they would tell you that filters are life savers. Filters are everywhere: in our cars, our homes, and even in our places of work. Industry has to filter their smoke coming out of their chimneys. We filter everything that we can to preserve…
On Life is Fragile
William Jennings Bryan probably explained death and its purpose best when he said, “Because of the fall- death has come to be the universal heritage; it may claim its victims in infancy or youth, in the period of life’s prime, or its summons may be deferred until the snows of age have gathered upon the…
On Self Respect-Honor
When I was a young boy during the Second World War, the Japanese people were considered by most, if not all Americans, as sneaky, cruel and hateful. As youth we called them, ‘yellow japs’. I Remember Pearl Harbor, the day the Japanese Navy unexpectedly bombed US Navy ships, with many sailors still on board. I…
On Good Judgment and Good Advice
Someone has said: ‘Good judgment comes from experience. And experience comes from bad judgment.’ For us to awake each morning happy and confident, we probably didn’t need to do anything spectacular. We just needed to remember the ordinary glories we enjoy of life and love. When we open our eyes in the morning we have…
On We Know What Works
George H. W. Bush recently passed away at the ripe old age of 94. He was a one term president of the United States. He had accomplished many good, and great heroic things in his life and was a Navy pilot during the second world war. He was a Texas oilman in his private life,…
On Art as a Journey
Groucho Marx speaking with a straight and sober face stated: “This is what I know; Well, art is art, isn’t it? Still, on the other hand, water is water! And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb…
On The Power of Silence
Everywhere I go, people, all people, even little people are busily using some type of electronic device to communicate with someone else that could be either on the other side of the world, or, in the next chair. Many may be playing a game, earning points that would make them better than others playing the…
On The Social Crime of Indifference
T. K. Brown said that, “There is no pulse in indifference; but skepticism may have warm blood.” Elie Wiesel added that, “The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it is indifference.” and “To be treated with…
On Life After Death/The Spirit World
The restored gospel reveals many truths about life after death. Here are a few more insights about the afterlife that you may not have come across before. In 1990, there was an annual conference of the International Association of Near-Death Studies, held that year in Washington, DC, with Robert Millet. Attendee’s didn’t quite know what…
On The Restoration, Not As An Event, But a Process
After the Temple Ceremony was recently modified, a woman who was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who attended was so pleased with the modifications that she wrote; “Sometimes a true thing can become more true.” The Gospel of Jesus Christ was not restored, it is ‘being’ restored on a…