by Valerie Steimle | Dec 24, 2016 | Valerie Steimle: Strengthening Families
We are bombarded by many Christmas messages from Thanksgiving to December 25th. Some messages promote store sales for buying gifts for others and some messages promote the “reason for the season,” remembering our Savior Jesus Christ and His birth. I wanted to...
by Valerie Steimle | Dec 22, 2016 | Valerie Steimle: Strengthening Families
During the Christmas season we often think of Mary the mother of Jesus who was the special handmaiden who brought our Savior into the world. We are thankful for her sacrifice as we wouldn’t have had Jesus if it weren’t for Mary. But there were other women on the scene...
by Valerie Steimle | Dec 12, 2016 | Valerie Steimle: Strengthening Families
Have you ever had thoughts about something you have pondered for years and years and had done nothing about it? “One day,” we say to ourselves, “One day we will accomplish that thought.” When will it be that day? For me that day had arrived. I write...
by Valerie Steimle | Nov 30, 2016 | Valerie Steimle: Strengthening Families
I have been in an emotional daze for a few months now in moving across the country, finding a new job and making new friends. But the spell was broken a few days ago when tragedy struck and I was snapped out of my fog. A good friend; a very good friend had been in an...
by Valerie Steimle | Sep 29, 2016 | Valerie Steimle: Strengthening Families
I have always loved the writings of Carol Lynn Pearson until the publication of this book. I was devastated from reading The Ghost of Eternal Polygamy: Haunting the Hearts and Heaven of Women and Men by Carol Lynn Pearson. She has promoted and even encouraged the idea...
by Valerie Steimle | Aug 26, 2016 | Valerie Steimle: Strengthening Families
I have always appreciated and worked towards a clean house and everything in its place. Spring cleaning time came along and I would keep up with the cleaning and restore our home to a clean comfortable place. As time would have it since my husband passed away ten...