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What are we really doing, during this time of the pandemic, and staying home more? Are we trying to improve ourselves, our talents, our thinking of, helping, and cheering others?  This article by Brad McBride is really insightful!  His blog is called "Thus we see".  It is titled:   Phil Connors, Pandemics and King Benjamin by  Brad McBride   |  Posted on  May 3, 2020 Has anybody else had the  Groundhog Day  feeling lately? Everyday seems the same. (For those who haven’t seen the movie, I’m sad for you.) It has truly been a strange time, given the stay-at-home orders, closed businesses, layoffs and many working from home. And, like in the movie, it will eventually end. While the movie  Groundhog Day  is considered a romantic comedy, I look at it with a lot more respect and meaning that most other movies. I find a depth in it that resonates with me spiritually. OK, I’ll help those who haven’t see...

This article is rather long, but it's all good!  So if you have to read part one time and then the rest later to read it all, you will be glad you did!    Seeking and Receiving Family Revelation By  Richard and Linda Eyre  and  Saydi Eyre Shumway  · April 29, 2020 Editor’s Note:  New York Times #1 Bestselling Authors Richard and Linda Eyre join forces with their daughter Saydi (an “in the trenches” mother of four young children) to produce this series on the why-tos and the how-tos of receiving the Direct-Stewardship inspiration, guidance, and revelation we need to create strong and righteous families in this difficult world.  This is article 2 in a multi-part weekly series which will run here in Meridian every Tuesday. ( Click  here  to read article 1 ) In today’s turbulent world, and with the challenge of home centered Gospel teaching, parents and grandparents need personal family revelation more tha...

Are we looking to our Prophet, and the Seers -- the  Quorum of the Twelve Apostles for our direction?  They can see "afar off!" A Seer, in Times When We Struggle to See By  Craig R. Frogley  · April 27, 2020 Sometimes, we learn doctrine while seeking answers to other personal concerns.  As a reader and keeper of records, Limhi just wanted a translation service for the mysterious set of metal plates his people had found.  What happened to the writers, what was their story, their civilization, etc.?  Ammon’s answer included this important doctrinal statement that furnishes us with hope in a world gone seemingly dark, with conspiracy theories blossoming in every corner, some credible, some not. “…a seer is greater than a prophet…a seer is a revelator and a prophet also; and a gift which is greater can no man have, except he should possess the power of God… a seer can know of things which are past, and also of ...