The Second Mile

The Second Mile

Suffice it to say, my life has changed dramatically since the last time I wrote an article. In the last few weeks, I moved out of home, I started school, I started 2 new jobs, and, oh yeah, I got engaged! Can’t forget that last thing! Ha!   In some ways, I look...
Figuring Things Out

Figuring Things Out

I would like to begin by acknowledging that in the last couple of months, I have finally felt like my life is falling into place.   That sounds rather dramatic. I don’t mean to say that my life was ever truly “out of sorts,” but rather that I never felt...
Trust in Tumultuous Times

Trust in Tumultuous Times

I believe we can all agree that our world right now is a bit crazy. However, one benefit of this is that from unique circumstances comes unique thought and insight. One might argue that Joseph Smith could never have received such eloquent revelation as Doctrine and...
The Touch

The Touch

Over the summer I’m taking a BYU religion course exploring the four Gospels in the New Testament: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. This course, as with most BYU religion courses, is taught in a very intellectual way. In order to understand greater spiritual messages and...
Challenges as Preparation

Challenges as Preparation

Phew! What a time to be living in!   The protests happening these last few weeks have been pretty intense — more intense than many of us expected, I would say. They’ve eclipsed the state of the pandemic for a moment! That just shows that one issue inevitably...
Investments in Time

Investments in Time

This thing all things devours: Birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Gnaws iron, bites steel; Grinds hard stones to meal; Slays king, ruins town, And beats high mountain down.   What is it?   For those of you who know Tolkein’s story The Hobbit, you’d recognize...
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