by Nanette ONeal | Jul 20, 2014 | Nanette O'Neal: Morning Devotional
As a youth leader, we performed a skit along with the teen-age girls on the parable of the ten virgins. We did it with a modern-day spin, using flashlights. When the five foolish virgins realized their flashlights didn’t work, they came begging the five wise ones for...
by Nanette ONeal | Jul 6, 2014 | Nanette O'Neal: Morning Devotional
This article is for all the perfectionists—those people who hate making mistakes, who want everything in their lives turn out perfectly. I used to think perfectionism went hand-in-hand with the gospel of Jesus Christ—after all, the Savior himself counseled us to “be...
by Nanette ONeal | Jun 22, 2014 | Hobbies, Nanette O'Neal: Morning Devotional
There are scriptures that comfort and scriptures that teach. There are ones that pick up my spirit and others that drive me to my knees. Still others have me ponder the ways of heaven and leave me scratching my head more often than providing comfort. The one from...
by Nanette ONeal | Jun 15, 2014 | Nanette O'Neal: Morning Devotional
During the 1990’s the elephant population in one of the game preserves in Africa had reached a maximum capacity. Something had to be done to alleviate the problem. It was decided that the herd could be thinned out by airlifting a number of elephants and relocating...
by Nanette ONeal | Jun 8, 2014 | Nanette O'Neal: Morning Devotional
It doesn’t matter how many times I’ve played or conducted “Pomp and Circumstance”, by Sir Edward Elgar, I get teary-eyed at every graduation I’ve attended. This has been going on for thirty-five years. To make matters worse, this year I got to attend the graduation of...
by Nanette ONeal | Jun 1, 2014 | Nanette O'Neal: Morning Devotional
“Either what woman having ten pieces of silver, if she lose one piece, doth not light a candle, and sweep the house, and seek diligently till she finds it? And when she hath found it, she calleth her friends and her neighbors together, saying, rejoice with me; for I...
