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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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💎 Seeing From Above — Why Truth Isn’t Found by Arguing in the Room

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  💎 Seeing From Above — Why Truth Isn’t Found by Arguing in the Room There is a pattern the Lord uses when He wants to teach something deep. He does not argue with us   inside   our certainty. He lifts us   above it . This pattern showed up in a vision my daughter once shared with me — and I’ve come to see that it is the   same pattern Christ used   after His resurrection . Once you see it, you can’t unsee it. 🌿 The Vision — A Room Full of Sincere People She saw a   large, white, circular room . All nations were present. All cultures. All religions. Everyone was sincere. Everyone was passionate. And everyone was arguing. Not because they were evil — but because they were   certain . Each person stood in a different place along the wall, looking toward the center, saying: “This is what I see.” And each was convinced they were right. 💎 The Diamond in the Center In the very center of the room was a   clear, brilliant diamond . But no one insi...
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Video 47 🕊️ THE QUESTIONS THAT OPEN THE WAY

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  🕊️   THE QUESTIONS THAT OPEN THE WAY What the Scriptures Teach Us About Asking the Lord There’s something subtle I’ve learned over time — something the scriptures quietly teach, over and over again: The Lord does not respond to   every question the same way . Some questions bring silence. Some bring correction. Some bring miracles. And some — the right ones — open the way to walk with Him. 🌿   The Lord Has Always Taught Through Questions From the beginning, God has not just answered questions. He has   trained His people how to ask . Think about how often revelation in scripture begins   not   with a demand… but with humility. 🔥   “What Wilt Thou Have Me Do?” — The Turning Question When Saul is struck down on the road to Damascus, he doesn’t ask: Why did You do this? Am I right or wrong? What’s going to happen to me now? He asks a single, quiet question: “Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?” —   Bible , Acts 9:6 That question changed eve...
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🌿 First Things First — What the Bible Actually Says

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  🌿 First Things First — What the Bible Actually Says The Bible never calls Mary Magdalene a prostitute. Not once. What it   does   say is this: She stood at the cross when others fled She was the   first witness of the resurrected Christ   (John 20) Jesus personally commissioned   her   to go and tell the others That makes her—functionally— an apostle to the apostles . Already, the later caricature doesn’t hold up. 📜 The Book of Mormon Test — Who Does Jesus Trust? Here’s where things get really clear for me. The Book of Mormon shows us   how Jesus chooses people . Not by: Office Gender Title Institutional rank But by: Purity of heart Spiritual readiness Willingness to hear and obey His voice “And ye shall offer for a sacrifice unto me a broken heart and a contrite spirit.” — 3 Nephi 9:20 If Christ trusted Mary Magdalene to carry the   first resurrection message , the Book of Mormon gives us   no reason   to doubt that. In fact, i...
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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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