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 […]
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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“We All Have Chapters We Would Rather Keep Unpublished”


Print or EmailTheDiscipleMD “We all have chapters we would rather keep unpublished”- Downton Abby A number of years ago a great message was delivered by Dieter F. Uchtdorf on being merciful and withholding judgmental gossip about others.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 […]