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don’t
Wise parents had managed the process of ensuring that my partner and I were fully integrated into the family,
the
I witness and wait.
Nephi’s
If I can fix my heart on Thee. . . .
we live in the present.
take one day or one thing at a time.”
I express my faith by being loyal to Heavenly Father and to His Son.
“Just as the capacity to defer gratification is a sign of real maturity, likewise the willingness to wait for deferred explanation is a sign of real faith and of trust spread over time.”
stewardship
there is no sin in attraction.
identifying themselves as queer, for example, does not mean they are having
sex or doing anything inappropriate.
hanging out with straight kids all their lives hasn’t turned the gay kids straight.
Certainly the reverse would also be true: spending time with the gay kids is not going to make the straight kids gay.
there is a substantial cost to any choice.
it possible for a wholly just, perfectly merciful, completely loving God to allow the earth experience to require significant sacrifices and even suffering for some of His children of a kind and magnitude not placed before others?
the
laboratory best equipped to provide education in such lessons for the eternities is a family.
ask Heavenly Father about
it.
This passage indicates that some faithful people have unique circumstances in regards to life, marriage, and family.
Nearly two-thirds of this company died during the trek.
Again, my desire here is not to answer the question about what God may ask of you. That is for you to learn for yourself.
This will not happen in a way that abridges the children’s agency,
Jesus clearly understood what many in our modern culture seem to forget: that there is a crucial difference between the commandment to forgive sin (which He had an infinite capacity to do) and the warning against condoning it (which He never ever did even once).”
to continue to put the Savior first.
Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct.
tasks
his plan of salvation is tailored to what he learned here and to what he will yet learn, and how he will yet progress.
you are gay and have a partner, continue your daily practice of thanking God for the many blessings you enjoy individually and together.
is my determination to live the law I have.
I
am confident that their compassion is genuine and heartfelt.
no
one will feel more comfortable with me than I am with myself.
‘The greatest form of charity may be to withhold judgment.’”
Scorekeeping is fatal:
His love might be shown through His giving us commandments and our love shown in following them.
They are great supporters of LGBTQ equality as well as dedicated and committed members of the Church, and they are wonderful goodwill ambassadors for the Church in the larger community.
you submit your wills to God, you are giving Him the only thing you can actually give Him that is really yours to give.
altar or to begin to place the gift of your wills upon it! No need to wait for a receipt; the Lord has His own special ways of acknowledging.” Elder Maxwell continued, “I testify to you that God has known you individually, . . . for a long, long time (see Doctrine and Covenants 93:23). He has loved you for a long, long time. He not only knows the names of all the stars (see Psalm 147:4; Isaiah 40:26), He knows your [name] and all your heartaches and your joys!”4
I began to learn that to pray, study, and work for the gift of charity, the gift of loving purely as Christ loves, is to catch a glimpse of what Heavenly Father loves about each person with whom we interact.
that join themselves to the Lord, to serve him, and to love the name of the
Lord, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant;
was baptized.
The wonderful Saints who made place in their hearts and on their pews year after year never demanded that my progress or repentance be visible to them. They simply made space.
ye shall not forbid any man from coming unto you when ye shall meet together, but suffer them that they may come unto you and forbid them not;
And now behold, this is the commandment which I give unto you, that ye shall not suffer any one knowingly to partake of my flesh and blood unworthily, when ye shall minister it; For whoso eateth and drinketh my flesh and blood unworthily eateth and drinketh damnation to his soul; therefore if ye know that a man is unworthy to eat and drink of my flesh and blood ye shall forbid him. (3
