June 2011
4 posts
Faye: The Good of Society
“There is nothing in the world that is as important to me as my family. I believe that family will last forever and that kinship bonds that we create on this earth will last with us forever throughout the eternities.”
“It would be wrong for me to say that my Heavenly Father isn’t the most important being in my life… of course He is. But I don’t know where I’d be without my husband and my family...
Chanthol: The Good of Growth
“Why do you keep saying the house is so big?” Chanthol asks with an air of exasperation. “There are much bigger houses in America. Yes, this is big in Cambodia, but nothing like the houses that you have in your country.”
“When we have guests or family visiting it is nice to have so much room. But at night, my wife and I often sleep in our daughter’s room. So we can all be close to each other. ...
Lynn: a life lived for the Good of Life
One of Lynn’s earliest memories is of a casket. Her brother Jimmy had been such an exciting playmate for the three older girls in the family. Then one day with no warning, there was a little tiny casket. Lynn can’t remember Jimmy being sick, but he had been, and she and her sisters ended up all dressed in black. Their playmate was gone.
As she grew up, Lynn put that trauma behind her. She...
Introduction to Eight Great
Good people disagree often — and sometimes violently.
This fact bothers me … and not just because of the “violently” part. At a very deep level, it seems irrational that people who are trying to be good would be disagreeing in the first place.
In the middle of a disagreement — where I firmly and fundamentally believe that only one option is clearly “correct” — it’s a lot easier to believe that...
