There’s an article which estimates that 16% of the population (teens to 49 yrs.) of the United States has genital herpes. You can read it here:http://www.reuters.com/
Year: 2010
Powerful doctrines
These powerful doctrines are not even imagined by other faiths or traditions. Among us it is hardly understood, and we possess the scriptures that teach it.
Patriarch Smith
a little leaven
Sometimes it is the thinnest of threads which keeps a people from judgment. A “little leaven” or a “little salt” can save a whole lump. The want of “five righteous” has and can destroy a whole city. When you consider so thin a thread as that, you must surely realize there are no private sins. Each life has cosmic meaning.
Christ’s victory
Christ’s great victory was won by this simple formula: “He suffered temptations but gave no heed unto them.” (D&C 20: 22.)
Ordinances
All things bear tesimony
Baseball Season
High School baseball begins today. Hope it doesn’t snow.
Reincarnation
Yesterday at lunch I heard a great line from the Maharaja: “Reincarnation is only for the ignorant.” Made me laugh.
Reincarnation
Yesterday at lunch I heard a great line from the Maharaja: “Reincarnation is only for the ignorant.” Made me laugh.
Equinox
Observing the Vernal, Autumnal and Solstices was something done from ancient times, in ceremony and in ritual. Whole cities were built aligned to the cardinal directions of the compass and the lights of heaven. The lights of heaven were given to us first as “signs” and secondly as “seasons.”
Don’t let them pass by unnoticed. Otherwise you note less than even the plants and the animals whose life cycles and behavior acknowledge the passing of such events.
Raising the Bar
Calling this program “Raising The Bar” has essentially precluded a change. You can’t “Lower The Bar” without seeming foolish, or to invite ‘ner do well’s.