This being human thing is not as easy as it looks. Most of us are pretty sure God is there, that He loves us, that the Savior really lived and died for us. We confess belief in the gospel easily, we know the Book of Mormon is from God and Joseph Smith really was a prophet. We know all of these things and yet sometimes we still struggle. Here is how one person put it. I have been SO blessed, and yet the funny thing is I still do dumb things. I always imagined that being so blessed would prevent [...]
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One Family’s Struggle with Addiction
One Family’s Struggle with Addiction
My son is a 19 year old heroin addict. He began abusing drugs at age 11. I am interested in sharing my perspectives in order to help other families going through the very disorienting storm caused by addiction. As a devout member I found it difficult to maneuver through addiction recovery information to find the truths we needed to help our son and keep our family healthy. I have learned much through desperate research to understand what we were seeing. What addiction is and is not. Like you, much of what I learned came through painful personal experience. I found that very few members or leaders understand addiction.They offered [...]
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Pornography: How to lose your humanity.
Pornography: How to lose your humanity.
This article by Roger appears on the website Out in the Light and Deseret News.com Some pornography consumers often question the motivation of those who are concerned about widespread pornography usage in our society by citing the“fear of sexuality” as the true motivation of opponents. Proponents of pornography claim to be leading a movement, or perhaps even a moral revolution, to explore, understand and embrace human sexuality. In particular, they claim to be celebrating sexuality and liberation of women, while dismissing anyone who questions that widespread, wholesale pornography consumption will take over the culture as “prudish.” Research and experience are [...]
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Seeing the world from my view…
Seeing the world from my view…
These last few years have been quite interesting. I have been given a chance to look into the lives of many good people and see and hear their struggles. I live in the addiction world and see the waste and carnage daily. The lost lives and broken dreams. People come for help, hoping to find some understanding of the struggle they are in. The faces change, the stories are different, but usually the goal is the same. How do I bear this, how I do I get well? How do I make sense of this curse of addiction? In [...]
