by rogerjsimpson | Oct 16, 2016 | Meditation
Being found mortal and human with all our weaknesses and imperfections, we naturally want to be a part of something larger than us. When we go on an important errand and have important work to do, we do not want to represent only our fallible selves, but we want to...
by rogerjsimpson | Oct 15, 2016 | Meditation
The sacrament prayer is found in the Book of Mormon in Moroni chapters 3 and 4. The version the early restored church was given to use is identical and is found in the revelation in D&C 20:76-79. What follows is a word by word analysis of the sacrament prayer. It...
by rogerjsimpson | Oct 5, 2016 | Meditation
“And keep His commandments which He has given them” We often think of the commandments as a long list. Seeming more like 100 ways to be nice to others from some self-improvement new age site. To be really nice all the time to all people and treat them as Jesus would...
by rogerjsimpson | Apr 6, 2016 | Meditation
For those raised in the Jewish culture of Jesus Christ’s time, blood was the cleanser of sin.[i] Jesus took upon himself the sins of the world and all the worlds of God’s creations.[ii] He was therefore dirty, with the blood and sins of his people.[iii] Because of his...
by rogerjsimpson | Jan 24, 2016 | Meditation
I have started this WordPress blog site for the simple reason to record and remind myself, my extensive family and any others who may find it useful, of the infinite depth of even the simplest scriptures such as the prayers for blessing the Sacrament as in LDS...
by rogerjsimpson | Jan 16, 2016 | Meditation
President Spencer W. Kimball “Then Peter said, Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have give I unto thee: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk. “And he took him by the right hand, and lifted him up: and immediately his feet and...
by rogerjsimpson | Dec 18, 2015 | Meditation
“Reverence begins in a deep understanding of human limitations; from this grows the capacity to be in awe of whatever we believe lies outside our control—God, truth, justice, nature, even death. The capacity for awe, as it grows, brings with it the capacity for...
by rogerjsimpson | Oct 20, 2015 | Poetry
The universe is like an exquisite well-oiled machine whose gears mesh ever so perfectly, running effortlessly for eons of time, seemingly without the need for adjustment here and there.[i] However, the closer we look, the more we see slight incongruences that suggest...
by rogerjsimpson | Oct 6, 2015 | Painting
D&C 88:50 Then shall ye know that ye have seen me, that I am, and that I am the true light that is in you, and that you are in me; otherwise ye could not abound. Moroni 10:32 Yea, come unto Christ, and be perfected in him, and deny yourselves of all ungodliness;...
by rogerjsimpson | Jun 14, 2015 | Meditation
It seems as though most of us suffer here from some version of “not being good enough” to one degree or another; some people shape their whole life out of that perception. This feeling of self-doubt becomes the lens by which we see and hear everything that happens in...
