Filled with His Love

Send us Fan Mail It’s time to begin a new season. In this episode, I introduce this new season with an emphasis on positive psychology and how this sub-discipline in psychology correlates with the Gospel. I share a story of a man who experienced what I call “love deprivation” and then share excerpts from an article in Time Magazine entitled “What Adam and Eve Teach us about Love.” ________________...

Send us Fan Mail A healthy relationship is safe and secure. In this episode, I talk about how important this is by contrasting the healthy relationship with those that involve neglect and abuse. If you’d like a free e-book of one of my latest books, Forgotten Saints, The Education of the Heart, or my children’ s book, Pumpy and Poofy Live It Up the Lord’s Way, send me your email, and I’ll send you...

Send us Fan Mail We’ve all heard of IQ, or intelligence quotient, and by now most may have heard of EQ, or emotional quotient. EQ refers to our emotional intelligence, our ability to understand and regulate our own emotions and also understand others’ emotions. In this episode, I describe how our EQ can affect our relationships. If you’d like a free e-book of one of my latest books, Forgotten Sain...

Send us Fan Mail Relationships are fluid, ever changing phenomena. Lots of surprises. And how we react to those surprises can determine whether we strengthen or weaken the relationship. In this episode I reflect on a story from the Normandy invasion in 1944 and draw implications from the story for the attachment relationships we all have. If you’d like a free e-book of one of my latest books, Forg...

Send us Fan Mail I’ve just published a new book entitled, Forgotten Saints: A Pioneer Story of Those Who Lived and Died Without a Trace. It is now on Amazon and will be released on July 12 in time for Pioneer Day. In this episode I give a brief introduction to the book, part history, part fiction about a blended pioneer family who crossed the plains. I hope you enjoy the book! If you’d like a free...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode I discuss the importance of prayer in our attachment relationships. I recount some experiences from our recent trip to Israel and show how we can learn something from the modes of prayer in Judaism and Islam. If you’d like a free e-book of one of my latest books, Forgotten Saints, The Education of the Heart, or my children’ s book, Pumpy and Poofy Live It Up the Lo...

Send us Fan Mail If we want to strengthen our attachment to God, we need to allow Him to abide with us—to dwell with us, live with us. In this episode I describe how the hymn, Abide With Me, has become one of our family’s “attachment songs.” The episode ends with a beautiful piano arrangement of the hymn by M. Diego Gonzalez. If you’d like a free e-book of one of my latest books, Forgotten Saints,...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I discuss how we can do more than learn about truth; we can literally embody it by living it and getting it deep inside us.  __________________________ Do you have questions or comments? Please contact me: rtosguthorpe@gmail.com Want more info about my books and talks? Go to my website: https://www.russelltosguthorpe.com/ Want to order a book? Just go to Amazon an...

Send us Fan Mail Jared Cruickshank, returned missionary,  joins me in this episode to talk about his favorite hymn: O Love that Glorifies the Son. He then sings the hymn with a moving arrangement by M. Diego Gonzalez, his missionary companion. He also shares his impressions of the book, Filled with His Love. If you’d like a free e-book of one of my latest books, Forgotten Saints, The Education of...

Send us Fan Mail Our spiritual well being has enormous influence on our ability to form close, enduring attachments with God and with others. But our physical well being also has significant impact on all of our relationships. In the episode, I discuss how we can take care of our body, as well as our spirit—how we can care for the whole soul. __________________________ Do you have questions or com...

Send us Fan Mail Companionships in the mission field hold particularly rich promise to help us learn how to relate to others and to God. In this episode, I explore that richness. __________________________ Do you have questions or comments? Please contact me: rtosguthorpe@gmail.com Want more info about my books and talks? Go to my website: https://www.russelltosguthorpe.com/ Want to order a book?...

Send us Fan Mail Nothing can strengthen our attachment relationships more than God’s mercy and grace. The trick is, how can we receive His mercy and grace every day. In this episode, I discuss this question. After reading the book, Filled with His Love, someone very close to me who has been less active in the Church for years, said, “I haven’t read a book in years, but I just finished reading your...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I share some powerful quotes on love that I did not have room to share in the book.  __________________________ Do you have questions or comments? Please contact me: rtosguthorpe@gmail.com Want more info about my books and talks? Go to my website: https://www.russelltosguthorpe.com/ Want to order a book? Just go to Amazon and type in Russell T. Osguthorpe Want to...

Send us Fan Mail I swim almost every day in a nearby pool. In the episode I begin by recounting a conversation I had with a lifeguard I’ve come to know. I ask him how he recognizes God’s hand in his life. Then I reflect on a personal encounter in the temple that showed so powerfully that God watches over his children.  I hope this episode can help you see his hand more often in your life. ________...

Send us Fan Mail Singing lullabies at bedtime is a tradition that cuts across most cultures in the world. In this episode, I share a conversation with my granddaughter, Olivia Osguthorpe about the meaning of a lullaby my wife and I wrote. Then she and her father, Rich, sing the lullaby accompanied by Manuel Diego Gonzalez. This is only one type of what we might call “attachment songs”—songs that d...

Send us Fan Mail We all have stories in our lives that have strengthened our attachments to one another or to God. In this episode, I share an excerpt from my book The Education of the Heart: Learning that Leads to God. Although the story happened a long time ago, members of our family still recount it as one of their all-time favorite experiences. Sharing attachment stories can strengthen our fam...

Send us Fan Mail It’s Easter tomorrow, and I wanted to give an Easter message so here it is with Diego Gonzalez music to begin the episode and to end it. Happy Easter! __________________________ Do you have questions or comments? Please contact me: rtosguthorpe@gmail.com Want more info about my books and talks? Go to my website: https://www.russelltosguthorpe.com/ Want to order a book? Just go to...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I discuss how important it is to remember past experiences that helped us increase our love toward God, toward one another and toward ourselves. I show how we can come to peace with our past if we were abused or neglected, and how we can replace those destructive experiences with memories of love.  __________________________ Do you have questions or comments? Plea...

Send us Fan Mail In the episode, I share an excerpt from a book that was just released, The Education of the Heart: Learning that Leads to God. It’s available on Amazon. It’s free on Kindle Unlimited. If you’re not a Kindle Unlimited subscriber, and you would like to read the book and also post a review on Amazon, share your email address with me, and I will gift you a Kindle version of the book....

Send us Fan Mail In April General Conference, President Nelson urged us to "end conflict," a simple but far-reaching request. One reason conflict arises--either with ourselves or with others--is because we hold a grudge, feel resentment, or cannot forgive a past wrong. In this episode, I discuss how attachment relationships suffer when we allow even a small amount of vengeance to overtak...

Send us Fan Mail Those who spoke at April General Conference often emphasized the importance of looking forward to the future with faith and hope. In other words, fostering an optimistic mindset. In this episode, I discuss how healthy attachment relationships with God and with others lead to such a mindset.   __________________________ Do you have questions or comments? Please contact me: rtosguth...

Send us Fan Mail We often focus so much on our actions that we forget to examine our motives. In this episode, I discuss how motives can be more important than our actions. We know that the Savior always acted out of love. What if we could follow his example and let love be our motive all the time? If we could let love be our constant motive, we would strengthen all of our attachment relationships...

Send us Fan Mail One of the main premises of the book, Filled with His Love, is that the closer we come to God, the closer we will come to His children. Our love for God fuels our love for others. In the episode, we talk about how we can strengthen our attachment to God, so that we can strengthen our attachment to others.   __________________________ Do you have questions or comments? Please conta...

Send us Fan Mail Attachment relationships need to be nurtured continually, and one of the best ways to do that is to listen to others and discern what they need to feel more capable and more loved. In this episode, I discuss some of the more subtle ways we can do that--how we can build up the soul of others.  I once gave a devotional address at BYU-Idaho on this topic. If you are interested, here&...

Send us Fan Mail Our attachment to God is not something we nurture only on Sundays or when we experience difficult trials in our life; it is a relationship that we need to foster every day. In this episode, two of our grandchildren, Molly Baxter and Logan Moore, help us by singing the beloved hymn, "I Need Thee Every Hour." Our hope is that as you listen, you will feel closer to the Lord...