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After the Manner of Chemish

Daily thoughts about the scriptures of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

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December 17, 2025

To Be Learned

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December 16, 2025

Serviceable

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December 15, 2025

He Is In the Sun

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December 14, 2025

Filled With Charity

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December 13, 2025

Walk With Me

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December 12, 2025

Succor His People

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December 11, 2025

Be of Good Cheer

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December 10, 2025

This is the Testimony

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December 09, 2025

Reign Personally Upon the Earth

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December 08, 2025

Swallowed Up in the Hopes of Glory

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December 07, 2025

Our Glorious Mother Eve

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December 06, 2025

An Instrument in the Hands of God

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December 05, 2025

The Great Atoning Sacrifice

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December 04, 2025

For the Benefit of the World

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December 03, 2025

The Blazing Throne of God

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December 02, 2025

The Mountains Shall Depart

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December 01, 2025

What Will Ye That I Should Do?

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November 30, 2025

The Danger of the Baobab Tree

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Why This Blog

The little-known Nephite writer Chemish left us one verse in the Book of Mormon (Omni 1:9) with no profound testimony given or great doctrine expounded. But in his short paragraph the verb "write" appears five times in one of its forms, and he witnessed simply of his brother's words and the Nephite need to write: "After this manner we keep the records, for it is according to the commandments of our fathers." So after the manner of Chemish I venture to keep my own record here of my journey through the scriptures. My hope is that it will encourage any who pass this way to spend more of their own time with the word of God.

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The Best Books

The Lord encouraged us twice in modern revelation to “seek… out of the best books words of wisdom” (Doctrine and Covenants 88:118, 109:7). The very best books are the holy scriptures, and this blog is focused on those. I also occasionally reference other books that inspire me to be better and point my thoughts and feelings heavenward. Below is a list of some of these. Search this blog on the book name to see the most meaningful passages for me.

Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
The Chosen by Chaim Potok
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Le Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
L'Aventure ambiguë by Cheikh Hamidou Kane
The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë