Ensign

March 2002

Volume 32 Number 3

Contents

• First Presidency Message: Communion with the Holy Spirit

  President James E. Faust

• Motherhood through the Ages

• Happiness in Womanhood

  Susan Easton Black

• Prepare for Blessings of the Temple

  Elder Russell M. Nelson

• Seven Steps to Strengthen a Marriage

  Janette K. Gibbons

• On the Responsible Self

  Elder Robert S. Wood

• Look and Live

  Elder Glen O. Jenson

• The 12 Spies

  S. Michael Wilcox

• An Indispensable Foundation

  George A. Horton Jr.

• Saints in the Land of the Long White Cloud

  Rebecca M. Taylor

• A Life among Muslims

  Orin D. Parker

• Lord, Increase Our Faith

  Elder John K. Carmack

• Coping with Chronic Illness

• Pass It Along: These Cards Really Work

  Jonathan H. Stephenson

• Latter-day Saint Voices

  • I Knew We Needed to Find the Book

    Lynn M. Schlick

  • My Long Climb Home

    Mavis Grace Jones

  • I Hope You’ll All Remember Me

    David W. Heyen

• Random Sampler

• Visiting Teaching Message: Increasing Our Testimonies of Jesus Christ through Scripture Study

• News of the Church

• Making the Most of This Issue

Inside front cover: Without Any Ire, by Nancy Glazier-Koehler. “How blessed the day when the lamb and the lion Shall lie down together without any ire” (“The Spirit of God,” Hymns, no. 2). (Courtesy of Museum of Church History and Art.)

Inside back cover: Rose Garden Moment, by Anne Marie Oborn. “How fortunate, how blessed is the child who feels the affection of his parents. That warmth, that love will bear sweet fruit in the years that follow” (Gordon B. Hinckley, “Behold Your Little Ones,” Ensign, June 2001, 2).