Trial Of Your Faith

Piñatas are loved by children of all ages, and they make any party better. Who doesn't like running around blindfolded trying to whack open a paper-mache object, to be showered on by candy, or who doesn't like sprinting to the downed piñata to snatch candy by the handful? Now imagine smacking a piñata leaving a gaping hole only to discover absolutely no candy. With this as a possibility, why are piñatas so adored?

The Need For Scriptures

For many of us, a user manual is only used when a trouble comes up. We are perfectly content with the way  something is going until it spontaneously combusts, shatters, or  fails in any other possible (or impossible) way. We then turn to the user manual looking for the solution to our problem, often ignoring the maintenance section which if viewed and used before hand would have stopped the problem from arising. If used as intended, a user manual would help stop problems from forming instead of fixing when the problem becomes too severe

Feast Upon the Words of Christ

Nothing compares to a feast: food sprawled across the table, the sweet and savory aroma fills the room and as you gaze into a mountain on your plate, all that goes through your mind is soon I will be stuffed. Soon one plate becomes two and two becomes four as you return for more helpings all in the endeavor to enjoy every morsel.

A Perfect Brightness of Hope

In the "Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker" a young boy in search of his kidnapped sister soon learns that more is at stake than just his sister. The world is being threatened once again by an evil thought to have been stopped long ago. On the side of this noble hero, is the ancient king who saw the destruction of his people due to the evil. Before the climatic battle, in an effort to thwart the plans of Ganon, the king wishes for hope. After the battle the King, parting ways, tells the green-clad lad "you must look forward and walk a path of hope, trusting it will sustain you when darkness comes." Though just a game, in it is taught the truth about the power of hope.

If men build

A building needs a strong foundation, if it is to withstand natural disasters, storms or whatever comes it way. So important is the foundation to a building that during the Sermon on the Mount, Christ compares those who do as he teaches unto "a wise man, which built his house upon a rock" and those who hear his teachings, but do not follow them unto "a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand". When the storms came the first house did not fall because "it was founded upon a rock" whereas the house of the foolish man crumbled (Matthew 7:24-27). Helaman 5:12  teaches that if we want the storms of life to have "no power over [us] to drag [us] down to the gulf of misery and endless wo" then we must have the "rock of our redeemer, who is Christ" as our foundation because it "is a sure foundation, a foundation whereon if men build they cannot fall." (emphasis add) Christ is a sure foundation, but for this promise to be true, we need to build. To put it simply, a foundation without a building is a big rock in the ground.

Like a Fire is Burning

Imagine leaving the safety and warmth of your own home to go camping. You get out and during the dead of night it, and the freezing temperature gets to you. To stay warm you gather logs and in hopes of starting a fire. As you gather logs, you long to hear the crackling of the fire, feel the warmth of the fire and see the glow of it as you watch the flames dance. The fire now built, you enjoy the comfort it brings as you stare into the star filled sky.