I forget far too often, and I find it very strengthening to be reminded, that I agreed to this. I agreed to the role, the ups a...
Perhaps most journeys depend upon the people you make them with, almost as much as where you come from. Where you end up depen...
Should not my gratitude be as high as heaven, and as deep as the ocean? Should it not be sharp enough to make me want to share...
Is a place where everything is perfect, really perfect?...
So many of us have been given opportunity, 'full, heaped and running over', and gifts of time and knowledge. ...
We all shouted for joy when the plan of our salvation was given in the pre-existence. We all want to be there in the glory of t...
Am I too easily satisfied – or even too easily beaten?...
We don't get a second chance at life. This is not a practice run, a dress rehearsal. This is it!...
Our mission given us in the pre-existence might be of any nature or duration. It might be similar to that of others, or quite ...
How could we believe that a God who has walked this path Himself will give us less than the best and the most that we can hold?...
As a writer of fiction, I can tell you that a major guideline is to give your protagonist great challenges to overcome. Medioc...
The future is ours to make of it what we will....
A Latter-day Saint and well-known novelist with over 25 million books in print, reflects on the season....
As farmers take stock of their harvests, so we can use the time of fulfillment to take stock of our actions over the preceding ...
There is a hunger in our souls which constantly whispers, we can be greater than this!...
I have promised myself this month that I shall deliberately try harder to seek the light....
Courage is described as that virtue without which no other is safe....
I make so many mistakes in wishing to grasp what I can see, only to realize later that my sight is poor....
Do not resent the temporary darkness or the pain which is the winnowing of the chaff from the seeds of eternity....
We are told that we may all be asked at one time or another to offer a sacrifice as great as Abraham's. What might our sacrific...
A friend told me of the news that a man had been found alive in the rubble in Haiti, after twenty-seven days buried. When he wa...
We are all on the same journey. In a sense we are all strangers, and in another, greater sense, we none of us are....
"Joy to the world - to all of it. I would like to make a resolution this new year to take giant steps closer to being who I rea...
If in any doubt as to the source of the knowledge you obtain, test it against what we know of Christ. Is it born of love? Does ...
Sometimes today I think we travel more separately than we need to. When the early Saints made their pioneer journey, they leane...
What is the human spirit capable of, where there is courage and will? Are not my troubles or disadvantages too small even to gi...
However close we are to the end of our personal journey, it is not too late to take stock and see if we can improve what we hav...
How much beauty do we miss because we have not the 'eyes' to see it?...
To know the Saviour is the beginning of learning to know God. Can anything at all matter more? Or be more marvellous, more be...
No wonder God looked at the world and said it was good! Good barely begins to describe it....
We have too many flowers out to name them now, and I had forgotten there were so many woods, so many long, rolling hills, so mu...
"We must all be painfully aware that the world is in a sad and frightening state as we enter this new year, but as members of t...
Don't let us be among those so busy with our own that when the stranger in need is at the door we tell him 'Sorry, no room at t...
I have been thinking about failure quite a lot lately, partly because of having experienced some, when it was unexpected, and t...
We are all children of our own time and culture. We must be taught in the language we understand. Who would know that better ...
Real gratitude for a gift can only be expressed by using that gift for good, sharing it where possible, and acknowledging the g...
Three women in different parts of the world have discovered the joys of service....
Every so often, we need to re-set our spiritual compass. The early months of the year, before the passing of time has eroded ou...
How close to us the past is. All those people were God's children just as we are. They had the same loves and hates, fears and ...
Real gratitude shows itself in treasuring the gift, whatever it may be, in using it for good, sharing with others....
Whatever we say in words, our lives reflect what we really believe. The way we behave makes very clear what our beliefs are. ...
Having "the DNA of Godhood" in us tells us that we are innately programmed to become like God - if we want to....
In the time of judgment we are all alone, accountable for everything we have done, or failed to do, perhaps especially failed t...
Perhaps it is not a bad idea to live in the shadow of a volcano to remind us that life is precious, and can be altered in a few...
Let us shelter all light from the winds of misfortune that may blow them out, the waves that might drown them, the rain or dark...
How unpredictable life can be. Although it is hard to think of bad surprises ahead, it is wonderful to know that unimaginable g...
Knowing who Christ is could make us braver, more certain in dark times, and less likely to forget when things are going well an...
Are you grimly determined to endure to the end, or are you savoring the ride? Here's a take on New Year resolutions that even ...
Judgment comes not as a matter of weighing up our lives "the more good or the more bad" but it is who we are at the end that co...
How many great people are put off joining our faith by pieces of "member doctrine," when if they heard the Plan of Salvation in...
If you have a problem or a question, why not write it down? Sometimes simply putting into words, where no one else will see or ...
A blank sheet of paper is without fault. It is also without virtue. Write as well as you can in the Book of Life. If you are af...
Sometimes we won't forgive ourselves. God offers us the gift of wiping out the stain, and we refuse to accept, as if we doubted...
What greater tragedy could there be than to gain the most precious things easily, and then fail to treasure them, nourish and p...
Exactly what does God wish us to do in the highest kingdom of glory in the life to come?...
Will next year offer us wonderful things? Yes, the best of all, the chance to try again, do better. Christmas itself offers us ...
With great novels we can see into the lives of people of any age or land, every circumstance and either sex. Can there be anyth...
Like life, agency is ours, an immeasurably precious gift. We can choose what we do - but we cannot choose what the results will...
We know what kind of people were in the City of Enoch. What kinds of people weren't?...
Do we "temper the wind to the shorn lamb"? If not, we are not even ready for advancement, let alone for the power and increase ...
There is great love in God to give us the treasures of the soul only as we can hold onto them....
Here and now we have limitations--and we are to learn to work within those limitations!...
No one else's success can rob us of ours. It is not a competition. If I have loved, if I have been generous, patient, kind, bra...
In the face of the tsunami disaster--or any loss that mortals experience--there will be people who will ask 'If there is a God,...
Christmas is the beginning in heaven and earth of the possibility of honor, courage, love and joy. Rejoice in it for all the ea...
If you want something done - ask a busy person....
"The other day I answered the telephone and recognized the person on the other end. I asked how she was. 'Alright', she said. '...
Life can include a lot of pain and loss at times. It is not always someone else's fault, and society does not owe us payment be...
Insincere words are cheap, and often do more harm than good. It can take time and care to think of the right thing to say. We a...
Are we not all bound on a journey, which is at times hard, and seems more than we can bear? What do you do if you see someone s...
By Anne Perry...
Anne reminds us that the Church is not a place for people who are perfect, but a place for people who want to be perfect....
Christ had to go through the Friday of Golgotha to get to the Sunday of the Resurrection. In our own personal ways, we must do ...
Do we take the time to honestly examine why we believe what we do? Could we explain it to someone else?...
Much of what we get in our church lessons is not new, but seeking out the Spirit and honoring the basics offers more than we ma...
I have one life, one chance to make of myself what I really want to be. Is that what I am doing?...
Where do we draw the line and say 'Here I stand and will defend what I believe in, at whatever cost it may be'....
Anne has been seven weeks traveling and is back to share lessons learned....
Is there a spiritual equivalent to the 'power nap'? Anne Perry suggests there are times when we need to simply say, "Lord, I ne...
If you were given the opportunity to speak to General Conference for ten to fifteen minutes, just once in your life, what would...
I have found that if I go to someone who has hurt me, almost always it was clumsy, ignorant, unthinking, meant to be funny, or ...
How often do we limit what we can achieve, because we have limited our dreams? I find it broadening to the soul to stand where ...
Anne Perry sails on the QE2 and finds that even "Grumpy" is a charming person....
The Adversary's plan would have saved us all - but to what? Mediocrity. We would have survived as a world of spiritual dwarfs, ...
How often we shut each other out by saying we have perfect families, well-organized lives, only trivial problems, things that i...
Happy New Year. That is a general wish rather than a belief that it will not be one with challenges to face, some successes, an...
I know how I loathe sitting and being talked at, or worse still, read to. Lessons are not supposed to be like that, they die on...
Don't let thoughts of the past and the future occupy your mind so much that you miss the joy of being alive...
Anne shares what she learned from reviewing Phantom of the Opera....
If we put family first we risk losing not only them, but even our own salvation. The only way to assure anything good forever ...
This month Anne shares her thoughts about faith and spiritual courage....
Anne Perry discusses the inspiring women of the scriptures....
"Even in pain or grief, we should struggle to keep faith by listening for the whisper of the Comforter which has been promised ...
Anne shares her thoughts about spring weather and an upcoming book tour....
Surely the earth, its waters, its rocks, its plants, with their abundance and their breath-taking beauty, demands both awe and ...
The War in Heaven is endless, there is no escape-we are for the good we believe, for courage, compassion, integrity, for genero...
Does our Heavenly Father feel the same, only far more intensely, when we who are His children, see the best in each other? And ...
We have not only a right but an obligation to protect ourselves and others. But to descend to hatred is to become equal with th...
"Treasure the questioner, the challenger, the one who demands an explanation, suggests a different answer, a different way of d...
"I have been given the gifts of time and health, peace in which to work, the freedom to do as I wish, in the broadest sense. I ...
God can use only the best for His finest work, and to know the best we must be tested....
After much travel I am safely back home again, and able to go to Church. The whole meeting at the beginning of May was most upl...
It has been an odd month so far, full of ups and downs, and I suppose if this is to the least bit honest, it must include the d...
As England is ravaged by foot and mouth disease, Anne Perry "wonders if the Book of Mormon lands were as heartbreakingly beauti...
From the British Isles to Germany to Alaska, Anne Perry recounts her travels this month. She muses on her journey of life, "You...
I need to have more trust in God, both that he loves me, as he does us all, but also that he knows me and knows a better path f...
It is tragic to spend one's life in the past or the future, not in the NOW - not to look around and think - THIS MOMENT is wond...
I wish I could believe that at Christmas, and again at Easter, we would cease our usual pursuits and remember again what price ...
The only way I feel I can give of my best to each occasion is to concentrate all my energy and attention on wherever I am at th...
To keep the commandments is more than to simply obey them, it is to revere, defend and protect them as well. Perhaps that means...
God does not play parlour games. If He uses physical laws that seem to be at odds with the ones we know - or think we do - then...
This is the second letter recounting writer Anne Perry's personal spiritual journey, reporting July 2000....
Gifted writer, Anne Perry, known by fans worldwide for her intriguing Victorian mystery novels, begins a monthly letter to Meri...
International best-selling author turns from mystery genre to fantasy to spin a story about a golden book containing life's ans...
