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Inner peace is always possible.

28 Aug 2024 | 1 min read
2024 Quick Thought from Come Follow Me
Even during crazy, hard times!

It’s only six chapters, but this week’s reading covers 28 very tumultuous years of Nephite history.

Look at everything going on: wars with dissenters, secret combinations plotting to overthrow the government, chief judges being murdered on the job, Church leaders being put in prison... How could anyone be at peace during such crazy times?

And yet, in the midst of all this, the Church still grew! It grew so much, in fact, that even the leaders were surprised (see Helaman 3:25). Tens of thousands of people were converted and baptized!

No matter how bad things get in the world, the Lord always offers peace to those who follow Him.

As our prophet, President Russell M. Nelson, so memorably put it: “The joy we feel has little to do with the circumstances of our lives and everything to do with the focus of our lives.”1

Find Your Peace

Pay attention this week to what helps you feel inner peace. Listening to calm music? Deep breathing? Drawing or writing? Reading scriptures?

Notes
1. From “Joy and Spiritual Survival,” Oct. 2016 general conference.


28 Aug 2024 | 1 min read

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Karen M.
29 Aug 2024
Writing in my journal daily helps to bring me inner peace. One thing I have been trying to do this year is ask of The Lord “what is my errand for today?” Knowing that He knows me and loves me, and that He listens and answers me every day brings me peace. I also always try and make a note of the times I think I made The Saviour and my Heavenly Father smile. Thinking of those things at the time I write them, and reading back on them, brings me both peace and joy.