A Better Way to Ask for God’s Help

A surprising key to receiving God’s help is not asking too specifically nor too generally. (14 Aug 2022) (Story) “Give Us The Problem, Not the Solution” As a functional analyst, I’m often asked to convert software requests into requirements and coding descriptions that ensure good code and good solutions. Recently, one analyst was asked to…

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The Infinite (Un)fairness of Life

Life is obviously, horribly unfair. Unless…
Tears come as I write this now, 40 years afterward. I barely knew Kyle Hess, yet he changed my life from both sides of the veil of death. This is what happened and why it matters to all of us.

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The Quest of a Lifetime

During that time and beyond, I began to feel the constant companionship of the Holy Ghost. It was truly as Nephi said, “If ye will enter in by the way and receive the Holy Ghost, it will show you all things what ye should do.” (2 Ne 32:5.) I literally had it given to me, at the very moment, what should be said in difficult interpersonal relationships, or when approaching someone about the gospel. A power far, far beyond my own flowed into my life…

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Science and Religion: “What Is Truth?”

Strolling across the BYU campus with a non-religious co-worker, I mentioned that I majored in physics and loved science. Her reply betrayed a widespread prejudice.. “It must have been hard to be religious and study science at the same time.” My reply startled her. I said: “Not at all. I’ve found that truth is truth,…

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“Excuse me. Where is this train headed?”

Just discovered a decade ago, supermassive black holes shed profound “light” both on the processes of galaxy formation and the Book of Abraham (cosmologically, symbolically, and especially spiritually). And not only do they remind us of the inspired nature of the Book of Abraham, but they help us see sacred symbolism that deeply matters to us here and now…

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