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Since the Garden, faith has carried on through stories. It’s no coincidence that Jesus’s preferred method of teaching was the parable. Our mission is to tell the world’s greatest faith-promoting stories.
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During the infamous Haun’s Mill Massacre in 1838, ten-year-old Alma Smith was struck with a musket ball that destroyed his hip socket.
Alma’s mother, Amanda Barnes Smith, was at a loss for how to help her wounded son. She prayed for help.
An answer came to her: she was to clean the wound with a lye solution and apply elm poultices.
She told Alma, “The Lord can make something there in place of your hip.” She instructed him to lie face down, and she went to work.
Alma remained completely motionless for weeks, demonstrating extraordinary willpower and patience.
At the conclusion of his immobilization, all were shocked to discover that flexible gristle had grown in place of the socket.
Miraculously, Alma regained complete mobility.
This healing was so anomalous that doctors came from across the nation to observe what they called “the Mormon miracle.”
When doctors pressed Amanda about who had performed such an extraordinary surgery, she responded: “Jesus Christ.”
The notion of “the impossible” has been imposed on “the possible” throughout human history.
The Wright Brothers were told that an aircraft heavier than air could never fly, according to intuitive logic. Then they flew.
Doctors once proclaimed that a sub-four-minute mile was impossible because of the mechanical constraints of the human body. Since 1954, that record has been broken dozens of times.
In your life, don’t be so arrogant as to presume that you know the limits of your potential.
For with God, nothing shall be impossible.