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I love the book of Proverbs in the Old Testament!  Whenever I am in the Temple or a place I have only a few minutes to read the Bible, I turn to Proverbs. One gem I found in Proverbs Chapter 24, verse 10 is:  If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small. I love that! Lesson 31: “Happy Is the Man That Findeth Wisdom” By Meridian Magazine  · July 30, 2018 Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please  CLICK HERE Proverbs and Ecclesiastes The Wisdom Literature The books of Proverbs and Ecclesiastes provide an intriguing variation in our Old Testament study. Not the grand hymnal praises of the preceding Psalms, not the general prose of the Books of Moses, not the historical tomes of the Chronicles, not the highly structured poetry of Isaiah, they offer snippets of thought in the form of a collection that might almost be a Book of Famous Quotations.  “The Hebrew word rendered  proverb  is  mash...

I found this great article this morning on LDS Living, and it is from the blog: LDS Smile  (ldssmile.com)   --- I want to give them credit for it, and I have condensed it a bit, and written a comment of mine, or two --       In Lds Living it was entitled :   "How to not be offended at Church" When Writing the Story of Your Life, Don’t Let Anyone Else Hold the Pen JANUARY 29, 2014  BY:  JOHN HUNTINGHOUSE "One of the most disheartening e-mails we receive on a daily basis are ones that go along the lines of “a member has done something to me that make me angry and consequently I have stopped going to church.” All of us face our own fellowshipping/members issues. We will almost always find ourselves in various situations where we could choose to be offended by the actions of others whether intentional or not. I have found myself in plenty of these situations and sometimes I am the better man, realizing that it wasn’t inten...