Body
The Value of Regular Exercise
Every year, once a year, for many years, I did something to my lower back which would cripple me for a week. I would feel a “ping,” and know that I was in trouble. In a short time I couldn’t stand straight, and became an old man as I tried to move about.
Read MoreBallerina Brent
My nephew, Brent, took a semester of ballet in college. He claims that he has never been in better shape than when he took that class. He has since read where sports therapists have basketball players and football quarterbacks take ballet instruction. These athletes do the same exercises, routines, and movements every day, and are always getting injured. The theory is that ballet makes a person use their muscles in different ways, and their bodies become more limber.
Read MoreExquisite Creations
As a boy wandering around the woods above my house, I fixed May 20th in my mind as the date on which I could find a fairy slipper. A fairy slipper is a pink, exquisitely-formed flower into which you can imagine a fairy’s dainty foot being inserted. Its real name is calypso orchid. It is a low-growing plant which sends up a 5-inch stem topped by a one-inch-long mottled, pink blossom. “Exquisite” is the best word to describe its shape and color. It is unique, and somewhat rare. It belongs to a genus that contains just this one species.
Read MoreAn Essay on Life
All my life I’ve asked the older folks two questions: “When do you reach middle age, and when does old age begin?” I’ve never gotten a satisfactory answer. However, having arrived at both of those milestones, I can now answer my own questions.
Read MoreOur Purposes on Earth
Our purposes in coming to earth were to get a body, to make and keep covenants, and to form an eternal family.
Read MoreIs the Resurrection Reasonable?
Just before the birth of Christ the people of the Book of Mormon became very stirred up about prophecy and religion and the supposed coming of the Son of God…
Read MoreTo This End Was I Born
In answer to a question posed by Pilate, Jesus said, “To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth.”
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