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This article, if read and understood, makes so much sense, and has wisdom! The pandemic highlights a logical fallacy that, unless checked, could prove our undoing By  Sharlee Mullins Glenn  · June 23, 2020 The following first appeared in the  Deseret News . We see it everywhere. Either you’re pro-NRA or anti-Second Amendment. If you have compassion for undocumented workers, you don’t uphold the law. Either you want to see Roe v. Wade overturned or you’re a baby-killer. Either you care about people or you care about the economy. These are examples of an unfortunately rampant logical fallacy — the either/or fallacy (sometimes called “false dilemma” or “false dichotomy”). This kind of fallacy builds an argument on the assumption that there are only two options when, in fact, there are several, if not many. This kind of over-simplistic bifurcation is not only misleading, but can be divisive, damaging and downright dangerous. Too often it p...

This is such a dramatic example of living faith, which happened just last month during the beginning of the Corona Virus saga! In the Time of the Virus: The Parting of my Personal Red Sea By  Lynne Perry Christofferson  · April 15, 2020 Photography by John Derek Perry. There will be many stories told of this time–of the days when a powerful virus jumped oceans and swept across continents. When life as we knew it came to a shuddering halt, and we incorporated new phrases into our vocabulary: social distancing, self-quarantine. Though my own story is not earthshaking, I feel compelled to tap it out in sentences that will one day speak to my grandchildren, telling them of the parting of my personal Red Sea in the time of the virus. I awoke Thursday, March twelfth, in a hotel in Casablanca, having arrived in Morocco with my brother John just the night before. Squinting at my phone to check the time, I found a text from my oldest son: “Did you he...

Are You Getting In Your Own Way? By Joni Hilton  · August 30, 2017 Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please  CLICK HERE Do you ever feel stagnant, as if there’s no forward progress in your life? Sometimes it’s a relationship, life in general, elusive goals, a stale testimony— many of us hit such snags when we realize we’re just not going anywhere. We just suddenly realize we don’t enjoy our job. Or we’ve lost the motivation to work on our marriage. We feel flat when it comes to spirituality. Maybe the future looks dismal. We’re in a rut. Usually we look around for the cause—it is our upbringing? Is this someone else’s fault? Is it bad luck? Circumstances? Just the way life goes? Surprisingly, it’s often us. Though it’s hard to admit, sometimes the reason is because we’ve become our own worst enemy. Without even realizing it, we get in our own way. And it can happen without our awareness. We pray for God to intervene and create ...

We we each really excited and anxious to come to earth, and experience all the problems we have?  This article gives great insights! Our Divine Agreement By Anne Hinton Pratt  · August 10, 2017 Newsletter, please  CLICK HERE Have you ever thought about what you were doing before you were born in this world? What were your desires? What capacities had you achieved? The fact is, your soul was designed for growth and expansion.  You have always existed, but at some point in your journey of awareness in the world before this, you wanted more than you were getting there. Since God wanted you to expand through experience, He literally GAVE YOU THE WORLD! He said, “We will make an earth whereon these may dwell; and we will prove them herewith…” ( Abraham 3:24-25 ) This earth became a place to experiment with yourself and others. Profoundly Curious You were ECSTATIC to be able to come to this three-dimensional telestial planet to put to t...

March 28, 2017 Service SCRIPTURE OF THE DAY Luke  12:43 "Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing . " QUOTE OF THE DAY Joseph Fielding Smith "Your able service does not go unnoticed by that God whom you serve and in whose work you are engaged" ( Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Joseph Fielding Smith , p. 123 ). March 27, 2017 Life is What We Make It SCRIPTURE OF THE DAY James  1:25 ""But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed . " QUOTE OF THE DAY David O. McKay "Let us ever keep in mind that life is largely what we make it, and that the Savior of men has marked clearly and plainly just how joy and peace may be obtained. It is in the gospel of Jesus Christ and adherence thereto...

These words of wisdom were published in Meridian Magazine on Thanksgiving Day.  We all were so busy, I saved it for a day like today!  Have a good one! The Importance of Learning Little Lessons in Life By Vickey Pahnke Taylor  · November 24, 2016 To sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please  CLICK HERE “In fact, is not managing life’s  little  challenges so often the  big  challenge? Those who wait for a single, spectacular, final exam are apt to flunk the daily quizzes.” (“Thanks Be to God”, Elder Neal A. Maxwell) Quizzes. I remember having pop quizzes in school. Sometimes, the announcement would bring a shiver through my body. Largely because I knew I wasn’t properly acquainted with the material that would be included in that quiz. Ughh. Other times, it didn’t phase me. I was on top of class teachings and ready to ace that quiz. So it goes in life. Because we are multi-faceted people, with ...