I Want to Be This Pure

I’ve been thinking a lot recently about my personal life and my standing in God’s eyes. I’m not sure why. It’s not that I have some awful disease, with pending death in the picture. It’s just that this has been a refrain in my mind. If the day I had to appear before...

Near Drownings

The Preparedness blog here at LDSBlogs.com is meant to cover all kinds of preparedness issues and topics. As I cast my mind about thinking of what might be useful to you, I am mindful of something one of the Mormon leaders recently told the general church (officially...

Ice Storms & Hypothermia

Have you lived through an ice storm? The recent ice storms in the United States remind me of when I was a kid and a storm that hit the northern mountains of Arizona. One wouldn’t normally think of winter storms and Arizona in one breath. But I remember the...

“Help! He Stopped Breathing!”

I remember when I found my baby not breathing in his crib. It was horrible. I tried to remember CPR and couldn’t. “This can’t be happening to me,” I thought as I tried to find my cordless phone to call 911. Flash forward now nearly 14 years...

Changing Attitudes, Changing Behaviors

Sometimes we struggle in life. All of us do. Life holds many wonders, but along the way through life we also experience a variety of upsets. Frustration can lead to angry outbursts. I find it helpful to study the word of God to help me understand my frustrations and...
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