by Kenneth Long

Although I am a child of this desert, I belong to the sea. I was born in this valley, as was my father and his father. Yet despite deep roots in this desert soil, the lure of the ocean has kept me diving regularly for the past 25 years. One dive in particular taught me a gospel principle that I had learned many times before and have learned many times since.
Yet only when my own life was about to end did I truly understand what it means to dwell in a probationary state, to be ready to depart this life.

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by Lin V. Floyd

Every Father’s Day, as I sit in church listening to someone honor their father, I remember my dad Stanley Vernon’s last day on earth.

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by Jonathan H. Westover

As presiding patriarch of the home, fathers have the weighty responsibility to lead the family in righteousness in five key areas of personal development: Physical; Social; Intellectual; Emotional; and Spiritual.

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By Danielle Ellis

Although we often quote the phrase “endure to the end,” do we realize, or internalize, what “the end” means for us, especially while we are “enduring” trials? Enduring to the end means the end of the trial; the end of the trail; the end of our lives; until our eternal reward. It might make our point clearer to say we must endure to the very, very end.
The story of finding Nephi’s land of Bountiful at the end of the trail from Jerusalem proves quite instructive here, as related in Meridian Magazine:

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Most LDS families do an exceptional job of teaching and inspiring their children. However, do our public schools offer the same level of inspiration, or do they extinguish the fire we have so carefully tended at home? While “education” is happening at our public schools, it is more the transfer of information to pass a test, rather than inspiring a new generation of students to hunger and learn for the rest of their lives. Inspiration speaks to the soul, not to the mind, and public education has ripped the soul out of the learning process.

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