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  This Doctrine Answers Our Hardest Questions and Defines Us By  Richard Eyre  · September 14, 2021 Editor’s Note: This is the eleventh article in a twelve-part series on the restored doctrine of The Parental God—a belief which separates our theology from that of any other religion. Access the first ten articles  HERE . Author’s Note:  The central thrust and thesis of this series is that our belief in literal Heavenly Parents changes everything and is the most pivotal and distinctive teaching of the Restoration from which all other key theology stems.  If we are the spiritual children of Heavenly Parents then of course we lived with Them pre-mortally, of course They have a plan for our happiness, and of course we must prioritize our family like They prioritize Theirs. This series seeks to organize what we know from prophetic and official Church sources in a way that prompts personal pondering and prayer about our Parental God and perhaps draws us closer eve...

Latter Day Light DAILY DEVOTIONAL December 5, 2018 Zion SCRIPTURE OF THE DAY Moses 7:18-19 "And the Lord called his people Zion, because they were of one heart and one mind, and dwelt in righteousness; and there was no poor among them. And Enoch continued his preaching in righteousness unto the people of God. And it came to pass in his days, that he built a city that was called the City of Holiness, even Zion." ARCHIVE Please Visit www.Latterdaylight.com Thank you! QUOTE OF THE DAY Brigham Young "I have looked upon the community of Latter-day Saints in vision and beheld them organized as one great family of heaven, each person performing his several duties in his line of industry, working for the good of the whole more than for individual aggrandizement; and in this I have beheld the most beautiful order that the mind of man can contemplate, and the grandest results for the upbuilding ...

To my dear friends here in the United States, and all over the world.  I truly hope we will have peace, kindness, respect, charity, and hope for the future!  We see many these days who are confused and unhappy.    I truly hope we can keep our spirits high, and remember President Thomas S. Monson's quote:  The future is as bright as your faith!" Freedom SCRIPTURE OF THE  DAY  Galatians 5:1 "Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. " QUOTE OF THE DAY Howard W. Hunter "A thief takes something an gives nothing.  He thinks he is free, but sooner or later his freedom vanishes into walls and bars.  Likewise, a person becomes a thief of his own soul by deceiving himself that he can live unrighteously, immorally, that he can cheat, lie, and take advantage of his neighbor; but all the while he is imprisoning himsel...

I read this today in Latter Day Light Daily Devotion.  It is so comforting, and gives all of us hope for our children!  I hope you enjoy it. Latter Day Light DAILY DEVOTION _________________________ Securing Our Children Nauvoo, Illinois June 18, 2014 SCRIPTURES OF THE DAY: Doctrine & Covenants 138:58-59 "The dead who repent will be redeemed, through obedience to the ordinances of the house of God, and after they have paid the penalty of their transgressions, and are washed clean, shall receive a reward according to their works, for they are heirs of salvation." QUOTE OF THE DAY:   Lorenzo Snow "God has fulfilled His promises to us, and our prospects are grand and glorious.  Yes, in the next life we will have our wives, and our sons and daughters.  If we do not get them all at once, we will have them some time, for every knee will bow and every tongue shall confess that Jesus is the Christ.   "You ...