by Terrie Lynn Bittner | Feb 28, 2017 | Finding Happiness, Terrie Lynn Bittner--Mormonism
What is the purpose of life? We’re here to gain a body and a family, to learn, to be tested, to develop faith, and ultimately to return to our Heavenly Father. However, the Book of Mormon also offers another interesting perspective on the purpose of our time here on earth:
by Gale | Nov 11, 2015 | Finding Happiness, Guest Posts
We arrived in Israel in late summer 1983 with five ingenuous kids in tow. Actually, not one of us knew what we were getting into. Culture shock set in quickly and lasted a long time. Although there was a kindly community of savvy Mormons there to help out (just as there was in Cyprus, Ireland, Malaysia, and every other country where we later traveled or lived), one still has to personally develop new tools to cope in a foreign environment.
by Valerie Steimle | Mar 21, 2015 | Discipleship: Follow the Savior, Finding Happiness, Home and Family, Valerie Steimle--Strengthening Families
Patience is a virtue.
I had to repeat that phrase to myself many times this past week. Challenges come in many ways to families. A difficult child, physical limitations, financial struggles, mental illness, and other assorted trials in the form of learning how to deal with life on earth. Families from every walk of life find themselves saying the same thing to themselves as they seek to find joy in the journey.
by Terrie Lynn Bittner | Nov 20, 2013 | Finding Happiness
Elizabeth Smart, at age fourteen, told God she was prepared to and willing to serve Him, but needed to know how to do it. Just days later, she was kidnapped by a mentally ill husband and wife. The man considered her his “wife” and repeatedly raped her, beat her,...
by Lisa M. | Nov 20, 2013 | Finding Happiness
Homosexuality and same-sex marriage are complex, sensitive, and often divisive issues that reach to the core of our deepest human emotions—our belief in God and His laws, our identities, our relationships and families, and our happiness in this life and the next. The...
by Gale | Apr 30, 2013 | Finding Happiness
I joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, often inadvertently called the Mormon Church, when I was sixteen. I had been experiencing a huge emptiness inside and was church-hopping, looking to fill it. Although I enjoyed all the churches I visited, I...
I had to repeat that phrase to myself many times this past week. Challenges come in many ways to families. A difficult child, physical limitations, financial struggles, mental illness, and other assorted trials in the form of learning how to deal with life on earth. Families from every walk of life find themselves saying the same thing to themselves as they seek to find joy in the journey.