Finding Joy and Peace

What would our lives be like without Jesus Christ? Have you ever pondered this question? 

Russell Nelson taught,  

The more you learn about the Savior, the easier it will be to trust in His mercy, His infinite love, and His strengthening, healing, and redeeming power. Your growing faith in Him will move mountains—not the mountains of rock that beautify the earth but the mountains of misery in your lives. Your flourishing faith will help you turn challenges into unparalleled growth and opportunity.”

Our guest, Jacob Cochran, will help us understand our need for a Savior so that it will be easier to trust Him and grow the faith we desperately need to move the mountains of difficulty in our lives.

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Is it really possible to give thanks in all our circumstances? What about the times when everything seems to be going wrong in our lives? 

Dieter Uchtdorf explained that, 

“Being grateful in times of distress does not mean we are pleased with our circumstances. It does mean that through the eyes of faith we look beyond our present-day challenges.”

“True gratitude is an expression of hope and testimony. It comes from acknowledging that we do not always understand the trials of life but trusting that one day we will.”

Our guest today, Lori Marett, will share her experience of losing her husband to a terminal illness and how gratitude helped her feel God’s love and peace in the midst of her afflictions.  

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The storms of life are no respecter of marriages. What will we choose when they come? Satan would have each of us turn inward and pull away from our spouse during times of trial.

The Savior’s approach is the opposite, He says “come unto me all ye that are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” If we come unto Christ and allow Him to, He takes our marriages by the hand  and guides us through the downpour. When burdens are beyond are ability to shoulder, He carries us. 

Today’s guests, Kim and John Sorich, will both share their journey through Kim’s breast cancer and how they created a deeper and more meaningful marriage because of it. 

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 Each of us will experience the unfairness of life, and receive injuries, whether real or perceived, at the hands of others. Will these injuries cause us to become spiritually blinded with anger, and revenge or with draw from the fold of God ? Or will we choose to accept, forgive, and allow the Savior’s Atonement to absorb all the unfairness in our lives? 

James Talmage taught, “Every human soul shall be tested as by fire.” 
Our guest today Jana Tuttle was literally and spiritually tested by fire. She was hit in the eye with a firework 6 years ago. She is here to tell us about her journey and how her accident helped her find her way to Christ-- who absorbed all the unfairness in her life and left in its place an all encompassing peace and joy.  

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We live in world where more and more people struggle to feel joy in their lives. Family values are rapidly declining and are viewed as old- fashioned. 

We want our children to experience joy. But without values to guide our children’s decisions, joy will elude them

Can joy be taught? Is it a choice or a condition experienced on rare occasions?  And how do you teach to children of varying ages without it becoming a lecture?

Our guest, New York Times bestselling author and world renowned speaker, Linda Eyre, will help us answer these questions.  

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For helpful resources:
Valuesparenting.com 
https://valuesparenting.com/free-books/

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When we do not accept what is, life is an illusion—an illusion that, like a pit of darkness, keeps us from seeing clearly, makes us claustrophobic and suffocates us in vexing negative emotions.

When we live in truth, we accept what is. When we live in illusion, we attempt to deal with what isn’t. In other words, we deny truth—things as they really are—and get mired in how we think things should or should not be. Ours becomes a world of wishful thinking.

Today’s guest, Sherrie Mills Johnson, teaches this in her book “Count it all Joy.”

She says, “while you are busy throwing punches at illusion, real life goes on all around you—unexperienced and unenjoyed—and problems go unresolved.”

In this podcast, Sherrie will walk us through the pit of illusion to the other side, where we will come to understand the difference between necessary pain and unnecessary pain and discover that joy is ours for the choosing.

Stay with us. I believe you will be inspired.

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At the end of your life what will you regret?  Will it be not having the big house, or the nice car you always dreamed of?  

David  McKay taught that, “No success can compensate for failure in the home”

Most of our regrets and guilt will not come from our lack of achievements, success, or possessions, they will come form our inadequate efforts within our family relationships.

Our Families have the potential to bring greater joy into our lives than anything else. 

What can we do to stop the breakdown of family relationships and facilitate greater joy and peace? 

Our guest, New York Times bestselling author and world renowned speaker, Linda Eyre, will help us answer that question.  She teaches, “The bottom line is we must turn our hearts to our children and our families …Strong families are still attainable, but only by parents who passionately pledge themselves to doing what it takes to build and bolster, to protect and prioritize their families—only by parents who consciously set out to make their family culture stronger than peer culture, the internet, the media culture, and all other cultures that swirl around their children.” 

Helpful resources and to buy the book The Turning @
Valuesparenting.com 

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Imagine being sat down one day and having your father tell you he was arrested for prostitution and has struggled with sexual addiction for most of his life. How would you feel? How would this change your world? How could the sorrow of betrayal be turned to your good and bring out the glory within you? 

Tara McCausland mother, Rhyll Croshaw, shared her story in a previous podcast—The Sorrow Of Betrayal Trauma, which has blessed the lives of many. Today we will hear the story from the perspective of a child in the hope of blessing others who struggle with or are impacted by sexual addiction. 

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Our guest, Marcia Price, can empathize with those who may experience intense emotions over lost or unfulfilled dreams.

From an early age, she envisioned life as a happily married woman with a large family. She was blessed to have only one biological child which was one of the greatest blessings of her life. She wanted to have many more children, but that didn’t happen for her. And then through a failed marriage, her fairy tale story seemed to dissolve before her eyes. She was heartbroken.

But God hears every prayer and knows the righteous desires of our hearts. Some blessings come soon, some come later in life and others don’t come until mortality is over. Our guest today will share her miraculous story—a story of a righteous desire being fulfilled at an unexpected time and in an unexpected way. Her story demonstrates that with God nothing is impossible.  

Stay with us I believe you will be inspired.

Talks Used:

The Great Commandment by Ezra Taft Benson
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/1988/04/the-great-commandment-love-the-lord?lang=eng

Adversity and You by Marvin J. Ashton
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/1980/10/adversity-and-you?lang=eng

Waiting Upon the Lord by Jeffery R. Holland
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/2020/10/57holland?lang=eng

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Most countries have a national language, culture and ethnicity.  This is not so for Americans. We represent a melting pot drawn from all nations, ethnicities, languages, and religions. So what does it mean to be an American? 

Today our guest, Gove Allen will address this question, by walking us through  the seven founding values which make us Americans. These values are what give us our identity as Americans and make us great. Without them we are no different than any other country. 

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