Armed With Thy Power
In the most recent general conference , Elder Patrick Kearon taught that the Savior can offer each of us a new beginning. He said of the Savior’s ministry: “He conversed with the social outcasts, He touched the diseased and unclean, He brought comfort to the weary, He taught liberating truth, and He called sinners to repentance. To each leper, blind man, and adulterous woman; to the lame, the deaf, and the dumb; to every grieving mother, desperate father, and mourning widow; to the condemned, the shamed, and the suffering; to the dead in body and the dead in spirit, what He did was offer a new beginning.” He continued, “Everything He said and did provided a new beginning for each of those He healed, blessed, taught, and relieved of sin. He didn’t withdraw from them, and He certainly won’t withdraw from you.” Elder Kearon suggested that each of us can have a new beginning, as many times as we need, through Him. This is perhaps why God made it so each night we go to sleep and wake up for...