by Sonja Hopkins | Apr 3, 2020 | Sonja Hopkins: Sonja's Safe Harbor
This post follows up on Sonja’s last post, “Lessons I Learned From Homemade Bread.” Read it here. This was one of the most memorable classes for me. I knew the Spirit was there because I had no idea how to set up the learning experience...
by Sonja Hopkins | Mar 20, 2020 | Sonja Hopkins: Sonja's Safe Harbor
Everyone’s brains are unique and the gifts and talents with which we are blessed vary widely. I am blessed to be able to facilitate a twice-monthly class in our stake on “life skills for emotional health.” We focus on various topics and may spend several classes...
by Sonja Hopkins | Mar 6, 2020 | Sonja Hopkins: Sonja's Safe Harbor
“We find a powerful example of the interaction among assurance, action, and evidence as the children of Israel transported the ark of the covenant under the leadership of Joshua (see Joshua 3:7–17). Recall how the Israelites came to the river Jordan and were...
by Sonja Hopkins | Feb 21, 2020 | Sonja Hopkins: Sonja's Safe Harbor
The quest for happiness is really the quest of a lifetime and the purpose of our existence here on earth. Elder Jeffrey R. Holland said, “In a phrase I am sure you have heard many times, the Prophet Joseph Smith once said, ‘Happiness is the object and design of...
by Sonja Hopkins | Jan 10, 2020 | Sonja Hopkins: Sonja's Safe Harbor
Blog posts are the “media age” journals, a way of recording the data your life experience has stored in your mind. Rereading them (whether you or your children are doing the reading!) is a way of ‘mining’ that data in order to come up with ‘reusable solutions.’...
