It is no secret that members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have a peculiar outlook on life. This extends to our views on relationships, and especially marriages. While we use the world’s terminology, such as “falling in love,” we believe in so much more. The term “falling in love” implies an accident, or something over which we have no control. It also has a corollary, very common in the world today, “falling out of love.”

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January normally brings a joyful sense of beginning again. A fresh calendar beckons, waiting to be filled with new adventures. This year, though, the air feels different. Whether it’s the economy, political unrest, personal tragedies on an epic scale due to upheavals of nature, or something else, I don’t know. People just seem concerned with what 2012 might bring.

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On thinking about the Christmas story, the Wise men are jumping to my attention. What do we know about them? Only Matthew tells us about the men and their journey to visit the young Jesus (See Matthew 2).

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The word “order” just begs for a dictionary definition, doesn’t it? My Webster’s 1828 Dictionary shows fifteen definitions for the noun, and six definitions for the verb. There’s plenty to contemplate in ‘order’! Which ones might best apply to the Lord’s directive to “organize yourselves; prepare every needful thing; and establish a house, even a house of prayer, a house of fasting, a house of faith, a house of learning, a house of glory, a house of order, a house of God” (D&C 88:119)?

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This issue of Desert Saints Magazine is our tenth anniversary edition! That’s 120 magazines meant to inform, uplift and entertain the members and friends of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Southern Nevada. I hope we have been some small measure of inspiration to our readers over this decade we’ve been together.

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