It is good advice to slow down a little, steady the course, and focus on the essentials when experiencing adverse conditions.
Dieter F. UchtdorfRead
Heavenly Father is constantly raining blessings upon us, but it is our fear, doubt, and sin that, like an umbrella, block these blessings from reaching us.
Interpretation
Fear and doubt can prevent us from receiving blessings that are always available to us.
This quote by Dieter F. Uchtdorf suggests that blessings from a higher power are continuously being bestowed upon us. However, our own fears, doubts, and sinful behaviors act like an umbrella, shielding us from these positive influences and opportunities, ultimately hindering our spiritual growth and happiness.
In practice
This quote could be shared in a church service to encourage faith and acceptance of blessings.
It is good advice to slow down a little, steady the course, and focus on the essentials when experiencing adverse conditions.
Absolute truth is not dependent upon public opinion or popularity. Now what is this truth? It is His gospel. It is the gospel of Jesus Christ.
We have a choice. We can seek for the bad in others. Or we can make peace and work to extend to others the understanding, fairness, and forgiveness we so desperately desire for ourselves. It is our choice; for whatever we seek, that we will certainly find.
There are few things that have filled me with such breathless awe as flying in the black of night across oceans and continents and looking out my cockpit window upon the infinite glory of millions of stars.
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You have agency, and you are free to choose. But there is actually no free agency. Agency has its price. You have to pay the consequences of your choices.
Prayer is speaking to God - but sometimes He uses our times of prayerful silence to speak to us in return.
Prayer is a new, gracious, lasting will of the soul united and fast-bound to the will of God by the precious and mysterious working of the Holy Ghost.
When we discern that people are not going on spiritually and allow the discernment to turn to criticism, we block our way to God. God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede
Dear God, I give this time of quiet to You. Please dissolve my thoughts of stress and fear And deliver me to the inner place Where all is peace and love. Amen.
[Our] first and foremost duty [is] to seek the Lord until we open the path of communication from God to our own soul.
To be closer to god, be closer to people.
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