The purpose of making covenants is to draw us closer to our Heavenly Father and His Son, Jesus Christ. We are beloved sons and daughters of God, and He desires that we experience joy in this life. Our covenants can serve as constant reminders of these sacred truths.

AWFUL: A Quebec physician says parents should be able to euthanize disabled newborn babies. He says parents “should have the opportunity” to have their newborn killed under Canada’s MAiD euthanasia regime. This is absolutely insane.

James Madison described the powers of the federal government as “few and defined” and those reserved to the states as “numerous and indefinite.” We’ve been dangerously drifting from that understanding since the 1930s. The drift has been most evident in areas now most fraught with waste, fraud, and abuse. If we honored the Constitution’s limits on federal power, there’d be very little waste, fraud, and abuse in our national government. Share if you’d like to see a “constitutional reset,” in which any government function that’s not obviously and necessarily federal under the Constitution would be returned “to the states respectively, or to the people,” as the Tenth Amendment specifies.

I feel like sharing a dream I had many years ago. It occurred before my mission in Korea so at least 15 years ago, but I still remember it clearly. ——— There was a large rectangular field, walled in by high walls. The field itself was green and grassy with a large multi-tiered water fountain at its center. On either side of the area were battlements as if they were sections of a castle wall. I was seeing this as if watching from over the shoulder of a flying eagle. At first the eagle flew over one end of the arena and the battlement. In the center I saw a large Minotaur surrounded by a host of all kinds of loathsome and cruel beasts. They held banners and weapons. They were restless and staring angrily across the way at the other side of the battlement where the eagle then flew. This other end contained a nearly identical view as the other. A large and armed Minotaur standing with a horde of foul creatures. If there was a difference in the banners or groups, it didn’t stand out to me. The eagle then flew and perched on the top tier of the fountain in the center of the field. I grew alarmed as the hordes on both ends of the field simultaneously rushed out of their forts. They both charged with rage and yelling towards the center of the field where the fountain stood. The clash would happen right on top of it and it surely would have been destroyed and desecrated. The eagle did not leave, so I sat there as the armies approached ever closer. When they were only moments away, the ground fell out between them revealing ramps that slopped down into an area below the fountain. These ramps extended the entire length of the field, but left a thin strip of land running the entire center of the field. The two armies didn’t seem to care or notice the change in scenery and ran full speed down the ramps and the battle commenced below the ground, out of my view. I remained sitting safety on the fountain which also remained safe and untouched. Then the dream ended. ——— The dream remained with me but didn’t have much meaning until more recently. I have come to feel that the two camps are opposing extreme, base, and hateful groups. It could be the extremist in both parties, I’m not sure. These groups want to destroy each other and the fountain which represents the gospel truths, was going to be caught in the fray, although it wasn’t necessarily the target. The evil forces met and it can be assumed that they trampled the grass everywhere they ran. The only places that were spared from either being trampled or being at war were the fountain and the strips of land in the center of the field.

Disney had access to one of the most iconic scores in film history with Star Wars and basically refused to use it because Kathleen Kennedy thought fans would care more about the new trilogy than the original And it took 6 years to fix their mistake