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Why Obsessing Over the Second Coming Can Be Problematic by Robert L. Millet, Excerpted from "Living in the Eleventh Hour"  | Nov. 30, 2019 Makes You Think Mormon Life While as members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints we are taught to prepare for the second coming of Jesus Christ, we don't have to anxiously obsess over it. In his book,  Living in the Eleventh Hour ,  Robert L. Millet explains how members can still look forward to the second coming without cataloging every event between then and now.  How should we as members of the Church of Jesus Christ feel about the fact that we do indeed live in the eleventh hour, the Saturday night of time? How does it make us feel to know that we are living through an era when more and more of the prophecies are being fulfilled? The Savior declared to Sidney Rigdon: “The poor and the meek shall have the gospel preached unto them, and they shall be looking forth for the tim...

I haven't written for a few days, as I've been supporting family members who have had some real problems.  Today I want to share this very important article from LDS Living. Jonathan Decker: The  Jonathan Decker: The Tragedy in Mexico, Our True Enemy, and Compassion in the Last Days by Jonathan Decker, LMFT  | Nov. 08, 2019 Author's Note: I wrote this in place of my "Ask a Latter-day Saint Therapist" article this week. It was written for those both within and outside of our faith. My normal column will return next week. For news coverage of the  Mexico Massacre on Deseret.com . I've been thinking about the tragedy in Mexico, in which a cartel brutally shot and burned alive American women and children. Having a wife and kids who mean the world to me, the reality of it hit me hard. I actually cried about it uncontrollably yesterday. And yet, I have heard some people claim that these people deserved their fa...

These are beautiful thoughts to help us when we want to do good, and improve ourselves and our own family and homes. Latter Day Light DAILY DEVOTIONAL February 2, 2019 Family SCRIPTURE OF THE DAY Isaiah 54:13 "And all thy children shall be taught of the Lord; and great shall be the peace of thy children." ARCHIVE Please Read www.Latterdaylight.com Thank you! QUOTE OF THE DAY Joseph F. Smith "Oh! God, let me not lose my own. I can not afford to lose mine, whom God has given to me and whom I am responsible for before the Lord, and who are dependent upon me for guidance, for instruction, for proper influence. Father, do not permit me to lose interest in my own . . . Charity begins at home. Life everlasting should begin at home.  "I should feel very badly to be made to realize, by and by, that through my neglect of home, while trying to save others, I have lost my own. I do not ...