Moroni 10:6-8, 32-33. We can connect the commandment of loving our neighbor as ourselves to the truthful principles of “knowing thyself” and “to thine own self be true.” Why is it not only appropriate but needful to honor these principles of truth if we want to live in joy, peace and freedom?

Matthew 22:36-39. We know the great commandments, however do we know how to live them in wisdom…in the Lord’s way. I offer my experience, belief and insight into what the great commandments actually mean and how to live them in wisdom and truth which yields freedom and joy.

2 Timothy 1:7. We talk about tools to increase our awareness of what’s happening in our minds and hearts. The more mind-knowing and heart-knowing we possess, the more power we possess. And that power enables us to make choices from a place of love and a sound mind which is our divine self.

Hebrews 10:31-32, 35-36. More on the power of fear to control. We can choose to turn to God in that fear instead of to our distraction strategies, trusting that He won’t let us fall and will give us something better.

Mosiah 24:12-16. Even in our scariest, darkest, most painful storms and bondage, if we will look up to the Lord, He can give us His strength and power to “bear up our burdens with ease.”

D&C 67:1-3. Speaking of fears, Happy Halloween!! It is human to have fears and feel fear. And the truth is we have our power of agency to choose faith not fear. Freedom not bondage. But how do we do that?

Ephesians 1:10. The “paradox of man”. Bringing seeming truth polarities together into one great whole is where joy, peace, freedom and confidence in Christ exists.

3 Nephi 9:20-22. Our shared human experience of pain and trauma and our reaction/response to it. A tool we can use to heal our broken hearts and be set free.