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Waking Up Zion — The Book

Waking Up Zion --- The Book

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INTRODUCTION Not a Faith Crisis — A Truth Awakening This isn’t a book about walking away. It’s a book about walking deeper. Deeper into Jesus. Deeper into His voice, His light, and His truth. For years, I loved my faith. I still do. The Church gave me structure. It gave me good people. It taught me to honor prophets and scriptures. To seek the Holy Ghost. To follow Christ. But somewhere along the way, I started asking quiet questions— Not to tear down, but to understand more. Where is the power of the Book of Mormon? Where is the fire of the early Saints? Where is the Jesus who speaks face to face? This book isn’t here to fight the Church. It’s here to reach the hearts of those in it — Especially those who feel something is missing, but don’t yet have words for it. I believe God is still working. But I also believe He is calling many of His children out of comfort and into courage. Out of tradition and into truth. Out of a system and into a personal walk with His Son. If you love the C...
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Video 46 🌿 Walking With Jesus — There Is More Than One Way to Walk

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4 🌿 Walking With Jesus — There Is More Than One Way to Walk For a long time, I thought there was only one way to walk with Jesus. One right sequence. One correct vocabulary. One approved path. If you didn’t walk   that   way, you were either behind… or wrong… or not serious enough. But life has a way of teaching you gently — if you let it. 🕊️ My Way Didn’t Start With a Map I didn’t begin with a system. I didn’t study a wheel or follow a chart. My walk unfolded something like this: Light → Love → Peace → Oneness Not because I planned it that way — but because that’s how my heart survived. I learned there was light in all. Then I learned to   love   deeply. Then I learned to   stop fighting . And only then did I discover what oneness even meant. At the time, I didn’t know what to call it. I just knew Jesus was there. 🔥 Then I Saw the Circle Later, I was introduced to the idea of the Medicine Wheel — a way some people describe the spiritual journey using directi...
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🕊️ When Church Gets Busy… Don’t Forget the Savior

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  🕊️ When Church Gets Busy… Don’t Forget the Savior Thoughts from an Old Member Trying to Keep It Simple I’ve been in the Church a long time. Long enough to have served in bishoprics. Long enough to have held more callings than I can remember. And long enough to notice something that made me laugh the other night… and then made me think. 🌿 The Night My Wife Turned Down a Calling Recently our ward was split and we were invited to meet with a member of the new bishopric. They wanted to talk to us about a calling. Now my dear wife had just finished   three years serving as Relief Society president . Anyone who has watched that calling closely knows it isn’t a small assignment. Phone calls. Meals. Late night worries about sisters who are struggling. Trying to hold people together when life gets hard. My wife served with her whole heart. But when that calling ended… She was tired. Not complaining tired. Just   human tired . On the way to the church building she said somethin...
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🌿 The Kingdom Was Never Meant to Be Built With Walls

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  🌿 The Kingdom Was Never Meant to Be Built With Walls For the last six months, I’ve been circling the same quiet truth. Not loudly. Not angrily. Just patiently. And now — almost gently — a small video about ancient manuscripts preserved in Ethiopia quietly echoed it back. Not as proof. Not as authority. But as   confirmation . 🕊️ The Kingdom of God Is Within You Jesus said it plainly: “The kingdom of God is within you.” (Luke 17:21) Yet somehow, over centuries, that sentence became inconvenient. Because if the Kingdom is   within   you: it doesn’t need gates it doesn’t need credentials it doesn’t need a hierarchy to mediate it The Ethiopian manuscript tradition being discussed in this recent video preserves an early Christian memory — one not shaped by empire, councils, or enforced uniformity. A Christianity that remembered what Jesus was actually doing: Awakening people. Not recruiting them. Not organizing them. Not institutionalizing them. Just waking them up. ?...
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Artificial Intelligence, Babel… and the Voice We Must Learn to Hear Posted March 2026

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  Artificial Intelligence, Babel, and the Voice of the Shepherd Reflections on Elder Quentin L. Cook’s March 3 message about artificial intelligence A few days ago, on   March 3rd , Elder   Quentin L. Cook   spoke about the rapidly approaching   age of artificial intelligence   and the challenges it may bring to society and faith. As I listened, it reminded me of an ancient warning from the scriptures — the story of the   Tower of Babel   — and how confusing voices can become in the last days. The scriptures have been preparing us for times like this for a very long time. 🌍 Every Age Has Its Test Human history seems to move through seasons. There was the   agricultural age , when most people worked the land. Then the   industrial age , when machines reshaped society. Then the   information age , where knowledge began moving instantly around the world. Now we are stepping into something new — the   age of artificial intelligenc...
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Video 45 🌿 GOING UPON THE WAY ----------- What the Temple Was Always Meant to Prepare Us For

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  🌿 GOING UPON THE WAY What the Temple Was Always Meant to Prepare Us For There is an ancient understanding found across scripture and lived spiritual experience: God intends to be known. Not only believed in. Not only spoken about. But   encountered . Again and again, sacred language returns to the same idea — sometimes plainly, sometimes quietly: “Going upon the way.” Not attending a building. Not passing a ritual. Not learning the right responses. But walking a   path of preparation   — one that leads a person toward God   face to face . Not symbolically. Not someday. But personally. 🕊️ ORDINANCES WERE NEVER THE DESTINATION Ordinances were never meant to replace encounter. They were meant to   prepare a person to endure it . At their best, sacred teachings calm fear, clarify truth, and loosen the heart’s grip on control. They are not about performance — they are about readiness. When that purpose is remembered, ordinances serve life. When it is forgott...
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🌿 One Voice After the Resurrection Why the Ethiopian Records Matter — and Why They Sound So Familiar

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  🌿 One Voice After the Resurrection Why the Ethiopian Records Matter — and Why They Sound So Familiar I want to share something that has quietly settled my heart. Over the last while, as I’ve slowed down, healed, and listened more carefully to the Savior, I came across a set of ancient Christian writings preserved in   Ethiopia . These records describe the   forty days after Jesus rose from the dead and before He ascended to the Father —the time when He taught His disciples privately. What struck me wasn’t how   different   these teachings were. It was how   familiar   they sounded. 📜 How Were These Records Preserved? Here’s the simple version. When Christianity became tied to empire and institution in the Roman world, many early Christian writings were lost, edited, or suppressed. But Christianity also took root   outside Rome —especially in Ethiopia. Ethiopia became Christian very early (Acts 8 even mentions the Ethiopian eunuch), and over ce...
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🌿 The Forty Days We Almost Lost. How Christ’s Own Words Survived in Ethiopia — and Why They Matter Now

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  4 🌿 The Forty Days We Almost Lost How Christ’s Own Words Survived in Ethiopia — and Why They Matter Now I want to write this plainly. Not as a scholar. Not as a preacher. Just as an old man from the sticks who loves Jesus and listens carefully when He speaks. What I’m about to share isn’t meant to tear anything down. It’s meant to   lift something up   that has been quietly preserved for a very long time. 🕊️ First — What Are These Ethiopian Records? After Jesus rose from the dead, the Bible tells us He spent   forty days   teaching His disciples before He ascended to heaven. Most Christians know that verse. What most people   don’t   know is this: Some early Christians   wrote down teachings attributed to Christ during those forty days   — teachings about the Kingdom of God, about watchfulness, about humility, about deception, about how His followers should live after He was gone. Many of these early writings were: suppressed lost destroy...
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