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This is one of the best articles I have read about the Temple Endowment.  It  helps those of us who have been through the Temple to gain greater understanding of the marvelous truths we learn there.  It also will help a person to understand more of the value of the Temple Endowment if you haven't been to the Temple yet.  I have included 2 comments people sent in that are quite interesting. Understanding and Embracing the Temple Endowment By Mark A. Mathews  · August 25, 2016 in Meridian Magazine To sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please  CLICK HERE Receiving the temple endowment should be one of the most sacred experiences in a person’s life. Unfortunately however, the uniqueness of this ordinance can sometimes be perceived as overwhelming and even a bit unusual for some who first experience it. Great care is often given to ensure that a person is worthy, but rarely is much done to help a person understand the or...

This is right on target!  Great ways to be more calm!  I have had some wonderful family experiences this last week, and will write about them next. 10 Ways to Have More Calm in Your Life By Rynna Ollivier  · August 30, 2016 Recently at a community outreach health conference the guest speaker, a highly regarded doctor at a major medical center, talked about how he has treated more patients with stress related illnesses in the last five years than in his entire medical career. The list of ailments was extensive and troubling. Conditions such as heart disease, high blood pressure, obesity, asthma, depression, anxiety, sleep disorders, eating disorders, gastrointestinal problems, diabetes, headaches, chronic body aches, autoimmune disease and Alzheimer’s are now believed to have a major stress component to them. According to  research  published in the  Journal of the American Medical Association , sixty to eighty percent of all phy...

Every Sunday we have any family in town we have dinner together and play games after.  We have done it for many years, and I used to worry that we may not be keeping the Sabbath Day holy, as we laugh and talk in the games.  But this article gives me peace, and helps me feel good about it.  I'm sure that the younger people of the family -- mostly teenagers would not have stayed with us all if we hadn't had the games.  It has kept us close as a family, and we miss it on Sundays that we can't get together. We have even had grandchildren who go to college about an hour away, come down to dinner just to play the games.  We all miss my dear husband, Wayne, as he was the "life of the party" when we had those family times.  Everyone wanted to play with him because he would announce "I feel lucky today"!  I may not post for a few days, as I'm going up to Bountiful to our granddaughter Skye's wedding on Saturday, August 27th, 2016!  Quentin L....

I It has been 6 months today since my dear husband Wayne D Eckman passed from this life into eternity.  I miss him so much!  But I'm sure he and his twin brother Blaine are very busy up there, having fun, and doing missionary work! The picture above was the spring of 1956, after we were married, at Dixie College.  The photo below was also about that time, when he was in college. I've written many articles about him, which you can find under the "labels" under his name, Eckman Wayne D.  There are several articles about him and his twin brother Blaine.   This was taken 10 years before he passed away, when he was 75, and I was 71, about our Golden Wedding time.

Lovely thoughts from Latter Day Light Daily Devotion.  Scriptures and quotes from prophets lift our spirits, and will help us keep this Sabbath Day holy. August 17, 2016 Prayer SCRIPTURE OF THE DAY   1 Peter  3:12 "For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil. " QUOTE OF THE DAY Spencer W. Kimball "There is a knowledge that our Father in Heaven wants each of us to have, and that is a personal knowledge that he hears and answers our prayers. I have always had very tender feelings about prayer and the power and blessings of prayer. And for this I thank our Heavenly Father and my dear parents and teachers, who taught me by word and example about righteous and heartfelt prayer"  ("Pray Always,"  Ensign,  October 1981) . August 21, 2016 Obedience SCRIPTURE OF THE DAY   Doctr...