by Janette Beverley | May 23, 2020 | Janette Beverley: Reaching Toward the Light
This weekend I was able to cross something amazing off of my bucket list. In Southern California this time of year, there can be seen occasional occurrences of bioluminescent waves that occur due to the microscopic phytoplankton that, when put in motion, create a...
by Adam Simpson | May 22, 2020 | Adam Simpson: Simple Insights
This thing all things devours: Birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Gnaws iron, bites steel; Grinds hard stones to meal; Slays king, ruins town, And beats high mountain down. What is it? For those of you who know Tolkein’s story The Hobbit, you’d recognize...
by Randall McNeely | May 21, 2020 | Randall McNeely: Pure Testimony
The other day I woke up at 2:45 and couldn’t sleep. So, I got up and left my room so I wouldn’t disturb my wife. I turned my phone on and checked my LinkedIn app and came across a beautiful post shared by my wonderful friend Lorena Acosta. Her post...
by Walter Penning | May 20, 2020 | Walter Penning: Arise and Be Men
The news was like a punch in the gut. For a moment, I could not breathe. How could everything I cherish—everything I stand for—be marginalized, questioned, demeaned, overlooked, and disregarded? Those old familiar pains one feels in high school returned: “I’m...
by Ashley Dewey | May 19, 2020 | Ashley Dewey: A Light in the Darkness
Standing in my living room all by myself, I rose my hand in the air to shout Hosanna. It was a very uplifting and inspiring moment in my life. Though I was standing alone, I felt completely unified with the entire church. A quiet calm filled the room and my spirits...
by Amy Carpenter | May 18, 2020 | Amy Carpenter: The Strength to Endure
My therapist is an actual angel. I mean it. Like, step aside, Mother Teresa and Mr. Rogers — Charlotte’s* here. (*Name changed.) As I wrote about back in February, I’ve been going through some traumatic events the last few months, so finding a good...
by Delisa Hargrove | May 17, 2020 | Delisa Hargrove: Applying Gospel Principles
After driving the same route to seminary for months, I started noticing a specific charcoal-gray, lifted Toyota Tundra. It had red shocks and a hitch insert that caught my eye. That hitch insert became the truck’s identifying characteristic to me. It took...
by Molly A. Kerr | May 16, 2020 | Molly A. Kerr: All the Pieces of Pi
Motherhood is not a popularity contest. Sometimes it is just plain hard. I’m sort of a “win at all costs, take no prisoners” type of mom. What I mean by that is I don’t care if you like me, my job is to be Mom. That is one of God’s...
by Sonja Hopkins | May 15, 2020 | Sonja Hopkins: Sonja's Safe Harbor
“Tell me, sir, what is a butterfly?” “It’s what you are meant to become. It flies with beautiful wings and joins the earth to heaven. It drinks only nectar from the flowers and carries the seeds of love from one flower to another. Without butterflies, the world...
by Walter Penning | May 13, 2020 | Walter Penning: Arise and Be Men
Of course you have heard the comment “Don’t sweat the small stuff” before. I am trying to apply that exhortation, but it is hard. COVID-19 has affected millions. At this point, thousands are infected and the pandemic is causing death and suffering...
