The True Remnant

  🌿 61 — When I Stopped Climbing and Fell Into His Hands 🪶 The quiet miracle that changed everything In 1971, something happened to me. Not loud. Not dramatic. Not public. Quiet. I had discovered something in scripture that overwhelmed me. Not emotionally. Not intellectually. Just deeply. I knelt down to pray. And I did something I didn’t fully understand at the time. I stopped climbing. 🧗 Most of Us Try to Climb Toward God We try to: be worthy enough understand enough prove enough clean ourselves up enough feel something strong enough We try to reach Him. Even in prayer, we strain upward. We talk. We explain. We promise. We perform. We climb. I didn’t know that’s what I had been doing before. But that night… I didn’t climb. 🤲 I Fell I didn’t argue. I didn’t analyze. I didn’t structure anything. I just surrendered. Not one thing. Everything. Fear. Control. The need to be right. The need to understand. The need to hold on to myself. I stopped resisting. And instead of climbing t...

🪶 Was Earth Meant to Be a Test? 🌄 What Moroni Learned After the War (Medicine Wheel — Part 1) I want to talk plainly. No mystery. No secret code. No pressure. Just something that’s been settling into my bones lately. Most of us in the LDS world grew up hearing this scripture: “We will prove them herewith, to see if they will do all things whatsoever the Lord their God shall command them.” — Abraham 3:25 And we were taught that meant: This earth is a test. Pass it. Obey everything. Hope you measure up. I believed that for decades. But what if that word “prove” doesn’t mean what we thought? 🌾 Prove — Like Bread In older English, “prove” doesn’t just mean test. It can mean: To reveal. To bring forth. To refine. To allow what’s inside to rise. Like when you prove bread. You don’t test the dough to see if it’s evil. You let it rise so what’s already in it becomes visible. What if earth isn’t a courtroom? What if it’s a place where what we already are rises? That changes everything. 🕊️ B...

  🏡 Zion Is Lived in Ordinary Life 🪶   Why the way we live today matters more than where we gather tomorrow. 🌾 Zion Usually Gets Pushed Somewhere Else When people hear the word   Zion , something almost automatic happens. We push it: into the future into another place into a different stage of life into a level we’re “not ready for yet” We imagine Zion as something that will begin   later , once conditions are right. But scripture keeps correcting that instinct. Zion does not begin later. Zion begins where you are. 👣 Jesus Always Started Where People Lived When Jesus taught, He didn’t tell people to wait for a better setup. He taught them: in their homes in their fields in their work in their relationships in their daily choices He didn’t say,   “When the world changes, then follow me.” He said,   “Follow me — now.” Zion follows that same pattern. 🕊️ Ordinary Life Is Where the Heart Is Revealed It’s easy to imagine Zion in theory. It’s much harder to l...

  🌱 When Good Beginnings Drift — and Why I Keep My Eyes on Jesus 🙏 I’ve met some of the most sincere, Christ-loving people both inside and outside the LDS Church. Good people. Praying people. Sacrificing people. People who honestly want to follow Jesus. Because of that, I’ve slowly lost interest in attacking   people   — and grown more interested in understanding   patterns . Especially this one: 👉   How something that begins with Christ can quietly drift over time. 🔍 Seeing the Question Beneath the Noise 📺 Every so often, I come across an old “anti-Mormon” video or critique. Most are harsh. Some exaggerate. Some lump everything together without context. But once in a while, buried underneath the tone, there’s a   real question   worth asking: ❓   How did we get from a simple message about repentance and Christ… to complex systems, speculative teachings, and institutional control? That question isn’t an attack. It’s an invitation to reflect. ...

  🌿 Something Beautiful About the Savior’s Birth I Had Never Considered 🎺 September 11 — A Quiet Wonder About the Savior’s Birth 🪶   A gentle thought… not to replace anything, but to consider something beautiful. Today, many of us remember April 6 as the birth of Jesus Christ. That date carries meaning. It’s part of our tradition. It connects to the Restoration. And honestly… there is something good in that. But over this past year, as I’ve slowed down… as I’ve sat more quietly with the scriptures… and tried to feel rather than just accept… another possibility has opened up. Not as a replacement… but as something to   ponder. 🌌 A Different Possibility Some have suggested that Christ may have been born… not in the spring… …but in the fall. Specifically around   September 11, 3 BC   — the time of the   Feast of Trumpets . Now, I’m not saying this   has   to be true. But when you begin to look at the scriptures… and the patterns God uses… it star...

  🌿 Jesus — The Peacemaker (Why This Name Matters More Than We Think) There’s something that settled in me quietly this morning. Not as a doctrine. Not as a new idea. But as a remembering. Jesus has many names. Messiah. Redeemer. Savior. Son of God. Lamb. King. All of those are true. But the name that rose up in my heart — the one that felt alive — was this: The Peacemaker. That name didn’t come with pressure. It didn’t come with hierarchy. It didn’t come with fear. It came with   peace and joy that reigns . And I realized something simple and important: 👉   That is why I follow Jesus. 👉   That is why I trust Him. 👉   That is why I am not afraid to walk toward Him. Because wherever He is,   peace follows . 🌿 Jesus Doesn’t Arrive With Accusation One of the quiet lies many of us were taught is this: “God comes to inspect you.” But that is not how Jesus shows up in scripture. When He meets the woman taken in adultery, He doesn’t interrogate her. He doesn’...