Thoughts and stories, by Pal

I wondered what this article was about, after reading the title.  It is very interesting to see how we can "rewrite" our history in our own minds! The Fallacy of Rewriting Your Personal History By  Ted Gibbons  · April 15, 2020 Editor’s Note: Beloved author Ted Gibbons recently passed away after a battle with cancer. We will continue to share his wonderful insights here periodically. One of the members of my church congregation came to see me in my office a while ago. I had not seen him in a meeting for some time. He is a very nice person, but he has lost his commitment to Christ and His gospel, or else it has been watered down like a soft drink full of ice on a hot day. But we are friends and he came to visit me. He talked about his disenchantment with the Church in general and with the members specifically, and about how hard it was to sit through meetings and listen to hypocrisy and platitudes instead of the things that really matter. ...

Counter Cultural Parenting By Nicholeen Peck  · January 27, 2016, in Meridian Magazine Editor’s Note: The following is part one of a two-part series on “counter-cultural parenting.” To make sure you don’t miss part two, subscribe to Meridian for free by  clicking here .   Society is transforming tremendously fast. In the past 10 years the United States has become drastically divided as a nation on important issues like the value of life, the value of religious institutions and morals, the value of the natural family, and what constitutes proper education. The list could go on. Fruitless debates fill the airwaves and the Internet. Families feel attacked, individuals feel devalued, and children are becoming more aggressive and depressed. What is happening to the world? The answer is that counter culture has become the new culture. Luckily, the families of the world still have hope. If culture and the process of creating or changing culture are under...

On this blog, I have quite a few readers from several foreign countries.  I assume most of you are members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, or at least sympathetic to our doctrines.  (Added an hour later -- )  I just saw on Facebook a short part of a talk by Pres. Ezra Taft Benson, about "The Constitution will be saved but not in Washington!"  -- it is worth watching:    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Jn0WuXQi0E   (copy and paste)   Very sadly to day, this goes along with the depredation and wickedness that has been prophesied to occur in these last days.  Those of us who are living now -- both older people like myself, and my grandchildren, and their children MUST BE STRONG!  WE KNOW WHAT IS RIGHT IN THE SIGHT OF GOD!    But due to radical courts and public opinion and the media, we are losing our God-given freedoms, which were to be preserved by our inspired Constitution!  Let's not be a...