Opposite, Not Oppositional
How is it possible to live with and enjoy working with someone who is your opposite in many ways? We all have at least one “opposite day” person in our lives. It might be the person who wants to slow down when you want to move ahead or vice versa. It could be the...
You Can Change, And Break The Cycle
All of us have baggage. Things we learned from our family or our culture that aren’t good. Some of these behaviors or attitudes have been passed down from parent to child for generations. How do you change something that seems to be in your dna, your earliest memories...
No Regrets
Some may typically think that the Atonement is limited to helping those that have broken the commandments and need forgiveness, and indeed it does that, but the Atonement also empowers us when we fall short in other ways as well. For example, when we face obstacles...
Raising My Arm to the Square: I Sustain the Prophet
I will sustain the prophet every day through how I live my life. For me, it will not be enough to raise my own arm, but to lift another’s.
Hope And The Treasures Of Your Heart
We live in difficult times. We are told in the scriptures that Men’s Hearts Shall Fail Them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMwKxmTLaCs Before reading this article I ask that you watch the short three and a half minute video by Elder Russell M. Nelson....
Falling into His Arms
Jesus Christ has risen today! Let me share a story of how I was raised from spiritual death. Putting Our Trust in the Savior We were a new congregation and I was asked to be the leader for the teenage girls’ organization. The Bishopric (what we call our local clergy...
Easter: A Remembrance Of Our Savior
From the time of Christ’s resurrection, Christians from around the world have celebrated Easter day as a great blessing to all mankind. For members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) it is not different. We are in awe of the sacrifice our...
Who Is The Winner?
I looked back over my shoulder. I couldn’t find my husband anywhere so I assumed I could just relax and chat a bit more while he caught up to me. I had jogged a little while with a friend and gotten ahead of him. He was the “official pace car” because he walks...
Conveyor Belts Make Bad Parents
Do you remember the chocolate factory episode of I Love Lucy? Ethel and Lucy find themselves working in a factory trying to keep up with a conveyor belt. As it picks up speed they start stuffing chocolate in their mouths, down their shirts, and in their pockets just...
Only As a Missionary
I regularly read missionary letters. Over the years, I imagine it has been dozens, possibly hundreds. This week they were particularly poignant and inspirational, one letter in the midst of a particularly hard week and another noting what a privilege it is to be a...
Love At Homeostasis: The BioMechanics of Marriage
An opportunity to think about marriage in a new light, as a living organism with a complex system that must be brought back to base when it drifts out of order.
Beware Shades of Gray
Satan uses these shades of gray to deceive us. Shades of gray are partial truths, justifications, and excuses. They are based on our desires because we are more willing to believe something that justifies what we want.
“What can I do to make you happy today?”
I was recently touched after reading a blog post from Richard Paul Evans, author of The Christmas Box and many other best-selling novels. He poured his heart out about a time in his life when his marriage was failing and he confessed what he did to save it. I was...
How Can I Get Everything I Want?
"She always gets the biggest piece!” I can still hear my sister’s shrill, whiney voice from my childhood, complaining that there was, in fact, a bigger piece of pie, and it wasn’t hers. Sometimes we all want a bigger piece of the pie. Is it really wrong to want...
What Does it Mean to Be Obedient?
Husbands and wives need to know that their partner is going to do what she/he has committed to do. Children need to know that Mom and Dad really mean what they say they mean, and that they are dependable. Neighbors want to be able to depend on each other.
Change Your Life
When I was a young man, English was not my strong point. Syntax, sentence structure, and language rules were a bit of a mystery to me. I could read and write as well as the next guy, I suppose, but don’t ask me to diagram a sentence or explain grammar terminology....
The Case of the Mysterious Gift: Sherlock Holmes on Grace
Grace isn’t something that kicks in at the end of our effort, it is our energy throughout the trial.
Use Gratitude to Hasten the Work of Salvation
When I think of our need to help hasten the work of salvation, I don’t automatically think of being grateful. I don’t think of joy. Instead, I think of missionary work. I think of temple work. As unlikely as it may seem, gratitude and joy are necessary components to...
Chilean Miners
“The miners were saved one by one” A Modern-day Example of How the Savior Redeems Mankind In August of 2010 all the world was shocked by the news of the Chilean miners trapped 2000 feet underground after a terrible mining accident. We desperately waited for word of...
Finding Joy After The Storm
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...
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