Lifting Sinking Souls
Our Saviour constantly sought out the most desperate souls sinking into darkness and dread and lifted them up. And He wants to lift you! – Patrick Kearon, “Jesus Lives to Lift,” Liahona (CR) November 2026
Despair
Nothing Is Impossible
The Lord warned that in the last days, there would be distress among nations,4 people would “be lovers of their own selves,”5 “all things [would] be in commotion,”6 confusion would abound,7 and “men’s hearts [would] fail them.”8 We have certainly seen men’s and women’s hearts fail them: the enticements of the world, the distraction of alluring voices, the neglect of […]
Despair Versus Hope
The adversary uses despair to bind hearts and minds in suffocating darkness. Despair drains from us all that is vibrant and joyful and leaves behind the empty remnants of what life was meant to be. Despair kills ambition, advances sickness, pollutes the soul, and deadens the heart. Despair can seem like a staircase that leads […]
Smiles
When a man is borne down with trouble, when he is perplexed with care and difficulty, if he can meet a smile instead of an argument or a murmur—if he can meet with mildness, it will calm down his soul and soothe his feelings; when the mind is going to despair, it needs a solace […]
Deliberate, Divine Tutorials
To be cheerful when others are in despair, to keep the faith when others falter, to be true even when we feel forsaken—all of these are deeply desired outcomes during the deliberate, divine tutorials which God gives to us—because He loves us. (See Mosiah 3:19.) These learning experiences must not be misread as divine indifference. Instead, […]
12 Ways
Some of you will recall in that great book Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan that the main character known as Christian was trying to press forward to gain entrance to the celestial city. He made it to his goal, but in order to do so, he had to overcome many obstacles, one of which was to escape […]