Comments on: Be Still, and Know That I am God https://ldsblogs.com/24124/still-know-god Tue, 12 Mar 2019 02:37:48 +0000 hourly 1 By: Kelly Merrill https://ldsblogs.com/24124/still-know-god#comment-595289 Tue, 12 Mar 2019 02:37:48 +0000 http://en.elds.org/ldsblogs-com/?p=24124#comment-595289 In reply to Jaynie Gaither Holley.

Jaynie, what a pleasure to learn more about you. I am glad you find satisfaction in my writing. Thank you for your comment.

]]> By: Kelly Merrill https://ldsblogs.com/24124/still-know-god#comment-595288 Tue, 12 Mar 2019 02:33:09 +0000 http://en.elds.org/ldsblogs-com/?p=24124#comment-595288 In reply to Tyson.

I think you have described beautifully what it means to be human. We have such promise before us, yet it is so difficult for us to take our eyes and attention off the wind and the waves about it and enjoy those promises.

]]> By: Jaynie Gaither Holley https://ldsblogs.com/24124/still-know-god#comment-595172 Sat, 09 Mar 2019 04:09:21 +0000 http://en.elds.org/ldsblogs-com/?p=24124#comment-595172 I enjoyed your post and the music videos included within it. I was born to sing. By the time I was three years old I had memorized several hymns and songs from the radio. My father played the harmonica and the violin so he would sit with me in our living room and listen to me sing. Everywhere we went I would perform for friends and neighbors just because they thought it was so cute to hear a three-year-old singing such big songs. My father was a World War II soldier when he met my mother. He was not a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints when my parents met. But, my mother was the granddaughter of one of the early apostles of the church, Elder James E. Talmage. She lived in her grandmother’s home while going to high school in Provo, Utah, where I was born, so she knew Elder Talmage personally. My father became converted to the church before he married my mother and was baptized, but my parents were not married in the temple at first. They were married by civil authority first and I was born 15 months later as their first child and only daughter. My father did not always attend church for the first 15 years of my life, but was an excellent provider and my mother, my brother, and myself always went to church and participated in all of the activities. I was baptized at age 8. As a family, we were sealed in the Salt Lake Temple when I was 15 years old, just one year after we moved from Provo, Utah to Layton, Utah, where my father worked at Hill Air Force Base. I could have been famous with my voice, but it was not my choice to be famous. I loved going to church and from an early age I decided that I would rather sing and perform in church choirs and programs than be famous. I have sung in many choirs, duets, trios, quartettes, sixtettes, and have sung solos in church and college. I always sang to my sons at their bedsides and prayed with them every night. Three of them have formed their own band. They have written lyrics and tunes, and have performed in front of large audiences. Their biggest audience was at the Park City festival one year. It was my charge from the Lord to raise these boys in the church and to teach them the difference between what was right and what was wrong and to help them to gain testimonies of the truthfulness of the gospel to enable them to make decisions between what was right and what was wrong. My other three boys have chosen other professions. It is amazing to me how each child, though taught the basic same things, can each find a different path in life. My husband was raised on an Idaho farm, fulfilled a full-time mission to England at age 19 – 21, has taught seminary, been a salesman, served a tour of duty in the US military as a chaplain assistant, been a counselor to the Veteran’s Administration at Weber State College, worked at Hill Air Force Base, and has worked with handcapp students. I have assisted him in all of these labors. We have served 2 missions together as a senior couple and I have served three separate missions outside the ones that we served together. I have served in several leadership callings in the church including two ward and one stake relief society presidency. I have an associates degree in executive secretarial science from Stevans Henager College and 98 credit hours toward a second associates in Sales and Service Technology from Weber State College in Utah.
I have worked in several capacities in the business world, but enjoy writing as a hobby and have written and compiled several pages of things, including articles, poems, stories, songs, and partial books. I am currently marketing skin care products for the largest skin care company in North American, Rodan and Fields. I crochet and sing to relax and enjoy reading posts and books, especially from LDS authors and I enjoy your posts very much. Thank you.

]]> By: Tyson https://ldsblogs.com/24124/still-know-god#comment-595170 Sat, 09 Mar 2019 02:40:59 +0000 http://en.elds.org/ldsblogs-com/?p=24124#comment-595170 I feel just like Peter. God showed me he is real and powerful and will comfort and strengthen me. He did it when I asked for it. He made it very clear to me he was there and that if I continue to pray and have faith that I wouldn’t have to worry about anything. Yet I worry. I’m still scared and uncomfortable and let the world and poeple cause me pain. This was a great reminder. Thank you.

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