by Guest Author | Oct 6, 2015 | Guest Posts, S.D. Burt
I was born into a strong LDS family. Both of my parents had pioneer ancestors. My father and mother respected one another, worked together, supported one another and raised our family in the gospel. My dad would open doors for my mother, his daughters and all women...
by Roberta Hess Park | Feb 4, 2015 | Roberta Hess Park--Coping With the Hard Life
Who really beats us up? Us! Nobody can beat us up better than ourselves! We have the inside scoop on how we think and this helps us to justify what we do. Over the years we have listened carefully to what others have told said about us; much of what we say to each...
by Roberta Hess Park | Jan 10, 2015 | Roberta Hess Park--Coping With the Hard Life
Agency is again wonderful and yet very hard at the same time. The world is an example of that! There are positive things that take place when people choose well and there are terrible things that take place when people choose badly. Often in our prayers we want...
by Roberta Hess Park | Dec 16, 2014 | Roberta Hess Park--Coping With the Hard Life
Many years ago I came to a powerful understanding about the gift and power of agency. Since then I have learned to appreciate agency even more. It is difficult sometimes, because I love my own agency, but it is another’s agency that I have a problem with! I am being...
by Roberta Hess Park | Dec 9, 2014 | Roberta Hess Park--Coping With the Hard Life
A friend of mine had a daughter whose life had been turned upside down because of addiction to pills. It had started with pain killers, then sleep aids, then anxiety reducing drugs; then and then and then until she was taking pills constantly through the days. She...
by Valerie Steimle | Aug 30, 2014 | Featured, Valerie Steimle: Strengthening Families
As I toted nine children along to the store or some activity, notoriously I would always get this question: Are those all your children? I would answer back with an enthusiastic “YES” and then go on to explain how they were from one husband and no twins. That really...
