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…
Tag: Death
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 What I Believe I Have Learned About Life
Over the years I have heard statements by various people expressing what they thought they had learned either from an experience in their life or from life itself. I, too, have learned a few things over my eighty five years on earth. The expectation is that as a person ages their experiences in life should…
On Separating the Things of Earth From the Things of Heaven
I remember a story (joke) I heard many years ago. “It seems there was a very rich man who had been diagnosed with a terminal disease. As he lay on his bed close to death he called for his wife. He instructed her to go down to the bank and withdraw all of his money…
On The Poetry of Phillis Wheatley
The story below is of a young lady, praised for her brilliance, but who suffered and died in the midst of the uncaring. She, a teen prodigy, rose from American slavery. The teenage prodigy poet, Phillis Wheatley’s story is one of hope, faith, and perseverance, despite living as a slave in 18th-century America. Glenn T….
On Don’t Forget
There is a saying that used to be popular : “Never forget where you came from.” Even though some may not forget, there may be some who may not want to remember. As a grown son, my little family never made it to where my birth family lived and worked but I never forgot. My…
On The Priesthood and the World
The Priesthood is the authority of God delegated to man to act for Him in saving or in the salvation of men. It is a principal of power, of intelligence through which divine work and purposes are achieved. The Priesthood is not just for use on the earth but the Priesthood is an everlasting principal and…
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 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 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…