LDS inspiration

  Kirk Rollins @nicoraytruth I met my wife in a small mountain town in rural Colorado, a place called Glenwood Springs. She was my neighbor. When I first saw her, it was like being struck by lightning. I knew in that instant that my life as I had known was over and something else had begun. Years later I took her to the top of a mountain at night in Telluride and asked her to marry me. I did not want our story to be a thing that happened only down here. I wanted to point us upward from the very beginning. And out of that love came my son, and I learned that a human being can feel things I did not know were in the catalog of what a person is. Joy beyond joy. The weight of a sleeping child against your chest that rearranges you and tells you, wordlessly, that you have touched the veil somehow. This is why I cannot bear what traditional Christianity has tried to do to heaven, and why you should not bear it either. Joseph Smith taught about the world to come is the most comfor...

  Tom Floodeen @TFloodeen I was raised a Methodist and at times was very active in the Methodist church. I taught Sunday School, Vacation Bible School, and at one time was the Superintendent of Sunday School at one of the Methodist Churches in Vallejo, California. The Methodist church is not a World Church in the sense that the LDS Church is. When you move from town to town, you have to go church hunting to find a branch of the Methodist church that you feel comfortable with. Then you join that branch. In some cases you have to take lessons from the Minister before you can become a full member of that particular Methodist Church. I also found that the doctrines taught in any particular Methodist Church depend a large part on the views of the local Minister. When I got out of the Navy in 1977, we moved to Santa Clara, Ca. After we had been there a couple months, we started to feel that we should get involved with a church so the kids could be raised in a better way. The church hu...

  Clint Teeples @TeeplesCY Someone praying for you in another building can change your brain in real time. There is a study that proves it. Researchers at North Hawaii Community Hospital placed 11 people inside fMRI scanners, fully isolated. In a separate building, spiritual leaders who knew them personally sent focused intentions toward them at random two-minute intervals. The receivers had no way to know when. Their brains lit up at the exact moments the senders focused on them. Specific regions associated with attention and awareness activated on cue. The odds of this happening by chance were less than one in seven thousand. Most people have never heard of this. Here are three more. Hand-holding and pain. Researchers placed 22 couples under EEG caps. When the woman was in pain and her partner held her hand, their brain waves synchronized. The more empathy he felt for her, the more their brains coupled. The more their brains coupled, the more her pain decreased. Touch combined...