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May 25 - December 12, 2016
depressed and shut down: he cries out, “O wretched man that I am!” But you can see that in the course of the chapter, he starts to get an inkling of what’s going on. It’s almost as though he says, Wait a minute—“Awake my soul! No longer droop in sin. Rejoice, O my heart, and give place no more for the enemy of my soul” (2 Ne 4:28). Like the great Nephi, we too are driven with the wind and tossed—until we get it.
You can grow in your direct awareness of Him through entering the sacred silence of your being. This process is discussed in more detail in Chapter 24,
During your quiet times, train your mind and heart to be like His by allowing feelings of lovingkindness to arise and fill your soul.
instead of the usual things we think as we look randomly at other people, rather, silently bless everyone you see, looking at everyone and everything through eyes of compassion and understanding; especially observing that when obnoxious or abusive acts are committed, there is pain and ignorance in the person who commits those—always. So we think like our Lord —“Father, forgive them for they know not what they do.”
become tuned to unspoken cries for help. Everyone is so vulnerable and so many around you are suffering, but not showing it. This is the spiritual gift that Thomas Monson and Gordon Hinckley and Spencer Kimball developed—they listened for the cries.
what if you could not even think the recurring thoughts that distress and afflict you? What if suddenly they were gone, lost in that true nature of joy that she describes? What if you were not capable of even thinking your favorite negative, fearful thoughts? Who would you be? How would you be? Would you not be liberated, fearless, your true, beautiful self? We have the power to come to live in the moment without the past. When all the negative stuff that we cling to so tenaciously is taken out, what is left? Only love and joy—that’s what’s underneath it all. We can begin fresh now, this very
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create new mental habits is something like a spacecraft trying to escape the force of gravity—at first it takes quite a bit of effort, and then you break free, and it almost runs itself.
your focused intention is the key to accessing the power of God. You tell Him what you intend, you show Him that you mean it, and He responds with His power.
The Lord says–“I say unto you, even as you desire of me, so it shall be unto you; and if you desire, you shall be the means of doing much good in this generation” (D&C 6:8). You know—this is a reason to live.
CHAPTER 18 THE ILLUSION OF FEAR
The word of the LORD came unto Abram in a vision, saying: Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward. (Genesis 15:1) There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear. (1 John 4:18) Fear not: for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. (Luke 2:10)
the only way that any one of us can come to Christ is in his or her inescapable unworthiness. So we can come boldly, with confidence in the Lord’s deeper understanding of us than we have of ourselves; John says, “Beloved, if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things” (John 3:20).
