Grateful

We lost my dad this past weekend. That's a funny way to start writing something where the titel is "Grateful". But here's the thing, when I took a minute to think about how things went I am grateful and I can see God in a lot of parts. My dad, Malcolm Shearer had cancer. He …

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What’s Holding You Back?

These last couple of weeks I have been thinking a lot about what I believe about God. You can see a few of my thoughts in this post. But today I want to talk about one place where I was going wrong for a very long time. Because i didn;t know God very well at …

What do I believe?

I have been working with a coach over the last 4 weeks. I have 9 weeks to go I believe. I hired this coach because I have felt a little stuck and overwhelmed in my business and in some parts of my life. I expected that he would help me to set up systems and …

Do You Have Faith?

I've been thinking about the temple recommend interview questions. I actually think about them a lot. The temple recommend interview questions are what help me in my life to choose the better part. They really are simple questions but if you take some time and really do some soul searching they can help you see …

A Christmas Carol

Every year in the month of December I watch as many versions of movies based on Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol as I can. I own a lot of them on DVD and there are many of them available on Amazon and other streaming services. I wrote a schedule for watching them on my other …

Because of Hope

Ether 12:4 Wherefore, whoso believeth in God might with asurety bhope for a better world, yea, even a place at the right hand of God, which chope cometh of dfaith, maketh an eanchor to the souls of men, which would make them sure and steadfast, always abounding in fgood works, being led to gglorify God. I have read this verse a million times before but today …

Communication

For a long time people have been telling me that it's important to understand how God communicates with each of us individually. I have always been confused by that. I would think, why wouldn't He just talk to us normally? Why does it have to be a big secret? Why would He want to make …

#GiveThanks

I have an old friend named Tom. We have known each other since high school. I haven't seen him in years and the only time we talk now is on Facebook when I respond to his very thoughtful posts. Anyway a couple of days ago he posted this quote from C.S. Lewis and it resonated …

Mormon 9:15-21

So, I had a thought as I read this passage today. There are a lot of people in the world who do not believe that miracles still happen. They do not believe that the God of the Old Testament and the New Testament is the same today as He was then. I have heard it …

Words of Wisdom

I'm in the middle of reading a book called Launch: An Internet Millionaire's Secret Formula to Sell Almost Anything Online by Jeff Walker. I'm learning things from it and it's very good But the thing I want to talk about here today is in Chapter 13 which is titled A Recipe for a Big Life. …