“Be Still, and Know That I Am God” | David A. Bednar | April 2024 General Conference 

You should still seek appropriate care for mental health

I've been working with an ADHD coach and it has been amazing. Sometimes the Lord gives us tools to help us manage other parts of our lives.

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Ok…I got it already and I don’t want to sound blasphemous…but, he listed those 3 things maybe 5 times then he added in the end “and they can help us do hard things”. I’m not really confused about what Elder Bednar said in one of his more drier talks IMO about those 3 things but, I would like to hear more to the best of his ability how we can be helped to do hard things, is my point.

​@@Wasatch_SasquatchI think part of the answer of how we do hard things is in this talk whenever he says "as we go about...." living the gospel daily, serve in the temple, attend our meetings and choose to have moments of study and learning in our home. Each of those can bring strength and peace as we are dealing with the difficulties of life.

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Agreed

Amen

It might be cosmic in the sense that is not of the world. We are so used to this world that something not of this world is portrayed as foreign or scary. It doesn't feel as foreign or scary when you see that we are children of our Heavenly Father. It is as if it is encoded in our DNA.

Hi! Stanger from the internet here. I don’t think it’s that much of a wresting of the scripture. Strictly speaking, Helaman 5:12 does say that “it is upon the rock of our Redeemer … that ye must build your foundation.” This presents our foundations (testimony) and Jesus Christ (the rock supporting our foundation) as two different things. This implies that we need to build our own foundation on the teachings of Christ, which I like because it acknowledges that we need to put in effort to truly be committed to God; Jesus won’t build our testimony for us, that’s our job. In terms of literal foundations, based on Helaman 5:12, Christ is the supporting rock under our personal foundations- in other words, the foundation of our foundation. The foundation we make on top is our personal anchor point to keep our house/ourselves attached on to the rock of Christ. Without the rock of Christ under it, our piddly little foundations would sink in the mud/sand, falling to the devil’s “shafts in the whirlwind (Hel. 5:12)”. This plays right into 1 Corinthians 3:11 that you brought up, Jesus Christ is the foundation, and nobody else can truly be an adequate foundation for us to build off of. The last thing I have to say is that these two scriptures (Hel. & Cor.) were written by different people in different times and at different places, with different cultures and (probably) different housebuilding techniques. They make very similar metaphors, but not identical ones. tldr is that Jesus Christ is the rock on which we need to “build our personal spiritual foundation”, and the use of the word “foundation” (in my opinion) is semantics brought about by differences in language & culture between Paul, Helaman, and Elder Bednar. The main truth to focus on is that it’s necessary to build upon Christ. I hope this helps. If you have any more questions, definitely ask them (not necessarily to me), because from personal experience keeping questions bottled up doesn’t help anyone. I tried to put some real thought into this, I hope it turned out well enough.

A sacred time to worship the Father and His only Son, our Lord , Jesus Christ, our Saviour. Wonderful message !

Yes, it is!!