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Russell's Ruminations: Righteousness and Happiness

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Sunday, December 8, 2013. When we seek happiness, when we want peace and contentment, when we want control of our lives, when we want a direction, a reason for our lives, where do we turn? There are those who give up looking for answers and just drift through life, willing to “go with the flow” because they lack understanding of the purpose of their existence. They are willing to waste their lives, their talents, and their innate goodness on the altar of apathy and indolence. There are those who look in ...

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Russell's Ruminations: who Are Your Friends -- The Codicil

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Friday, January 30, 2015. Who Are Your Friends - The Codicil. Last month, I discussed Joseph Smith’s quote:. Good and glorious it has seemed unto me, to find pure and holy friends, who are faithful, just, and true, and whose hearts fail not; and whose knees are confirmed and do not falter, while they wait upon the Lord…. They don’t want to be bothered with the Church. All we do is make them angry and drive them away. Let’s just leave them alone! 1830 in that little cabin to organize the Church and sustai...

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Russell's Ruminations: The Repairer of the Breach

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Thursday, March 14, 2013. The Repairer of the Breach. And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noonday:. And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not. Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God. In my mind, poor relationships and...

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Russell's Ruminations: Who Are Your Friends?

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Tuesday, January 13, 2015. Who Are Your Friends? Nearly everybody has something to say about how to find true friends, how to keep them, and how to recognize them. The internet is full of advice, good and bad. Perhaps the best source for this advice is the prophet of the restoration. He defined for us the eternal and celestial qualities true friends should have. Joseph Smith wrote the following about the family members and friends who visited him on. August 11, 1842. He had to find. Pure and Holy friends.

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Russell's Ruminations: Stern impassioned stress

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Wednesday, July 28, 2010. One phrase in the song, America the Beautiful, by Katherine Lee Bates uses the words “whose stern impassioned stress a thoroughfare of freedom beat” to describe the path the feet of the pioneers made crossing the wilderness to the west. 8220;Stern impassioned stress” is evocative of the determination and perseverance that those hardy folks evidenced as they crossed a wilderness full of snakes, wolves, buffalo, bad weather, oppressive heat, and hostile native Americans. Years ago...

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Russell's Ruminations: He employeth no servant there

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Sunday, November 8, 2009. He employeth no servant there. Each of us, when we leave this Earth - and we will all leave - returns to “that that God who gave them [us] breath, which is the Holy One of Israel.” (2 Nephi 9:26). Eventually, at the final judgment, we will all be called upon to account for our stewardship here on the Earth before the Lord himself. Nephi explains:. In D&C 19 1-3 the Lord tells us:. Bruce C. Hafen, and his wife, Marie, explain:. 8220;What is the way? Jesus saith unto him, I am the...

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Russell's Ruminations: October 2009

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Tuesday, October 27, 2009. Thursday, October 22, 2009. Recently, the back page of the Church News had an article titled “The Sanctity of Labor.” President Eyring told a story about his father, who after working all day hoeing weeds at the church farm, was informed that the weeds he hoed had all been sprayed and would have died anyway. President Eyring said:. Wednesday, October 21, 2009. Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees. (Isaiah 35:3). Wherefore, be faithful; stand in the office ...

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Russell's Ruminations: Indecision becomes decision

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Thursday, April 8, 2010. Alcoholic beverages were marketed in the same ways. It was easy for teenagers to buy beer and hard liquor. Many liquor store owners did not even ask for an ID. Of course, Doctor Brinton was not shy about insisting that use and abuse these substances would bring – at best – nothing but ill health and a shorter lifespan, and at worst, severely debilitating effects on our bodies and lives – eventually leading to an early demise. I am sure that Doctor Brinton recognized, as I do, tha...

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Russell's Ruminations: Opportunity cost and agency

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Saturday, July 10, 2010. Opportunity cost and agency. I learned in Economics 101 about the concept of opportunity cost. In general, economists define the "opportunity cost" of any good or service as the value of all the other goods or services that must be given up in order to produce that good or service – a cost that can be unimaginably great. 8221; It got shortened to: “What’s the opportunity cost? Economic Policy: National, Institutional, and Individual Issues. Evaluation of the opportunity cost can ...

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Russell's Ruminations: My Father's Hammer

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Sunday, March 1, 2015. My dad was a builder. He built an indoor bathroom in his father’s house in Virgin, Utah after he came home from World War II – using his mustering-out pay to pay for it – a huge improvement for his young bride and his parents, who used an outhouse prior to that time, and a small indication of things to come. He bought the little house on. On this blog (October 2009). October 2009). I encourage you to re-read it,. My focus for this post is not on what he built with his hammer, but o...