Latter-day Grooks - Vol. 1
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Praise for Latter-day Grooks:"They're beautiful. Brevity + profundity = impact!"
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Latter-day Grooks - Vol. 2
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Piet Hein was confronted with a dilemma when the Germans first occupied Denmark. He felt he had three choices; do nothing, flee to neutral Sweden, or join the Danish resistance movement. So, he joined the Resistance. Hein’s greatest weapon was his pen. His grooks were meant to be a spirit-building, coded form of passive resistance. The grooks are multi-faceted and characterized by irony, paradox, brevity, precise use of language, rhythm, and rhyme. They were often satiric in nature.
Author and award-winning poet, Bill Wylson, believes “the Latter-day Saints are in a type of resistance movement of our own. We are fighting the forces of evil and resisting the temptations of Satan and the world. It would be tragic indeed if we lost our faith in a moment of crisis and threw away the blessings of eternity promised to the faithful. Faith in Jesus Christ will always be rewarded.” In this volume, the author has attempted to cite the words and teachings of Elder Jeffrey R. Holland, apostle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and to express his ideas in the form of latter-day grooks. |
The Greatest Thing in the World
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A New Earth
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Other Books by Bill Wylson
Elder Hammond and
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Three Minutes Eighteen Seconds
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Tres Minutos con Dieciocho Secundos
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The Manger on the Mantle
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Words are extremely powerful. Lord Byron poetically portrays this truth: "But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think."
Three Minutes Eighteen Seconds examines three “small drops of ink” that are, simultaneously, extremely powerful words spoken by President Thomas S. Monson in the April 2017 General Conference. |
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