Archive for the ‘Mercy’ Category

The Most Popular Post of 2014

Print or EmailTheDiscipleMD SHOULDERS WET WITH TEARS (December 9, 2014) “I really can’t explain it but it happened.  In 2002 my mother passed away and I thought I was handling her loss very well.  Then, one Sunday, a few weeks after my mother died, a fellow church member came up to me and gave condolences […]

The Great Lessons of Pinnochio

Print or EmailTheDiscipleMD “Pinocchio is a fictional character that first appeared in 1883, in The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi, and has since appeared in many adaptations of that story and others. Carved from a piece of pine by a wood-carver named Geppetto in a small Italian village, he was created as a wooden puppet, […]

“We All Have Chapters We Would Rather Keep Unpublished”

Print or EmailTheDiscipleMD “We all have chapters we would rather keep unpublished”- Downton Abby A number of years ago a great message was delivered by Dieter F. Uchtdorf on being merciful and withholding judgmental gossip about others. (“The Merciful Obtain Mercy”, GC, April, 2012) He made a great point when he asked, “Do you gossip, […]

God Levels the ‘Field of Play’ For All

Print or EmailTheDiscipleMD A few years ago our family held a picnic in a local park. I organized a softball game with the boys and I playing the field and the girls hitting. My sons and I are avid ball players and although we didn’t hit and only played in the field, I gave us […]

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