Tag: character

• Nobody Cares How Hard You Tried

  This essay explores the uncomfortable law of the harvest: effort matters, but wisdom, mastery, faith, and truth are ultimately revealed by what our lives actually produce.

  Jared Eastley

  August 30, 2026

  Religious

  Alma 32, becoming like Christ, by their fruits, cause and effect, character, Christian Living, Christlike character, delayed gratification, effectiveness, Ether 12:6, faith and works, good works, hard work, law of the harvest, Personal Growth, righteousness, sowing and reaping, spiritual fruit, Spiritual Growth, transformation

• I Will Thrive

  I Will Thrive is a reflection on the difference between simply enduring life’s struggles and allowing them to transform us. Through opposition, temptation, anger, disappointment, and adversity, we are continually faced with the choice of who we will become.

  Jared Eastley

  August 26, 2026

  Religious

  abundant life, adversity, anger, becoming, Book of Mormon, character, choice, conscience, conviction, courage, discipleship, divine protection, endurance, faith, forgiveness, freedom, grace, Helaman, I Will Thrive, integrity, Jesus Christ, mortality, opposition, overcoming, persecution, perseverance, power of God, prophecy, prophet, purpose, repentance, resilience, retaliation, righteousness, Samuel the Lamanite, self-mastery, Spiritual Growth, spiritual strength, standing firm, temptation, thriving, transformation, trials