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These are great ideas, and something for all of us to think about during this Christmas season!  It is so important to stay faithful! 8 Things That Can Pull You Away From the Church By Gary and Joy Lundberg  · November 27, 2016 To sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please  CLICK HERE All around us we hear of friends and loved ones who are falling away from the Church. It breaks our hearts because we know of the incredible blessings they will be missing. We love them. With all our hearts we want them to enjoy all the blessings of the gospel and be with us throughout all eternity. We may ask, how does it happen? Some who once were faithful are now doubting and leaving the Church. It rarely suddenly happens; it’s usually a gradual process. It’s a process we all must guard against. Here are 8 things that ever so carefully pull people away. 1. They stop reading the Book of Mormon. This is likely not an intentional sudden...

A word to the wise!  Sugar has been around a lot with all of us, since Halloween.  This article will help us not over-indulge during the Christmas season, and after! Does Sugar “Feed” Cancer? By Carolyn Allen  · November 27, 2016 To sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please  CLICK HERE Note From Carolyn:   Our herbal detox, such a great health boost for after Thanksgiving indulging and to get the sugar and bloating on its way, is on sale through today, 11-28-16!   CLICK HERE . Our great privilege to share this all-natural product has brought many interesting conversations into our lives over the past nine years. Among those are numerous direct conversations with people who have purchased it for help in coping with the side effects of cancer treatments. They felt very fortunate to have found this product and today’s article is a result of those conversations. With Thanksgiving last Thursday, the Holiday...

This is a beautiful story, and both my husband Wayne and I had ancestors who were part of the group that were helped on their way to build the city, Nauvoo! The Quincy Miracle: How One Town Saved Thousands of Mormon Refugees by Glenn Rawson  | Nov. 19, 2016 Makes You Think Mormon Life On October 27, 1838, Missouri governor Lilburn W. Boggs issued an extermination order forcing thousands of Latter-day Saints to leave Missouri by March 8, 1839, or be killed. But where could they go? "The Mormons must be treated as enemies, and must be exterminated or driven from the state if necessary for the public peace,” Executive Order 44 declared. Thousands of Missouri militia forces were called out; they surrounded the Latter-day Saint settlement of Far West and demanded that the Mormons leave the state according to the governor’s order. But where could more than 10,000 people go on a moment’s notice as winter approached? They were alre...

HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL OF YOU DEAR READERS! Beautiful thoughts on gratitude, and an article from "Hey Sigmund" which tells us the benefits to our brain when we actually feel gratitude!  Worth reading! Gifts That Bring Happiness SCRIPTURE OF THE  DAY  Acts  20:35 "I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive." QUOTE OF THE DAY Howard W. Hunter "The gifts that money cannot buy are those that bring happiness to us in life. . . . "First is the attribute of thoughtfulness to others. "Second, its close cousin, is consideration for others. "Third, we must have courage---courage to do the right thing always. "Fourth, those who have a good nature enjoy life. A pleasant smile begets smiles, smiles beget friends, and friends are better than fortunes...