by Walter Penning | Jan 15, 2020 | Walter Penning: Arise and Be Men
The fog rolls in and we try and make something out of a situation we just can’t seem to make sense of. As we try to extricate ourselves from this unsavory position, we become despondent and helpless. That makes sense to us all. We have all experienced some...
by Jenny A | Jan 14, 2020 | Basic Beliefs of Mormons
“I do it myself!” shouts my three-year-old daughter as she struggles to put on her shoes. My offers to help are rejected as she fights to do something hard on her own. I am seeing free will (with a high level of frustration and intense, unrelenting...
by Delisa Hargrove | Jan 12, 2020 | Delisa Hargrove: Applying Gospel Principles
Aloha is one of my favorite things about living in Hawaii. One way to show aloha is to greet with a hug and kiss on the cheek when you see someone you know or are just meeting. Scrubbing Away a Scent People’s scents don’t often transfer to me...
by Sonja Hopkins | Jan 10, 2020 | Sonja Hopkins: Sonja's Safe Harbor
Blog posts are the “media age” journals, a way of recording the data your life experience has stored in your mind. Rereading them (whether you or your children are doing the reading!) is a way of ‘mining’ that data in order to come up with ‘reusable solutions.’...
by Paul Pulsipher | Jan 9, 2020 | Paul Pulsipher: Doctrinal Musings
Anyone who has read anything else I’ve written on this site knows I collect quotes from every book I read, every movie I watch, every podcast that means something special to me, and more. The book I’m into most recently (besides the Book of Mormon) is...
by Walter Penning | Jan 8, 2020 | Walter Penning: Arise and Be Men
Forgive me for sharing a personal challenge, but my mother passed away recently. My father succumbed to cancer 11 years ago now, and it is still hard for me to imagine it’s been that long. You might think to have this happen right before Christmas would impact the...
by Tudie Rose | Jan 7, 2020 | Tudie Rose: Strengthening Our Faith
It was a cold, foggy morning when I went for a walk on temple grounds. I walked past a bench, and my mind was filled with scattered thoughts. On warmer days, I often sit on the bench and look out at the trees, listen to the birds, pray, and ponder things. The bench...
by Abby Christianson | Jan 6, 2020 | Abby Christianson: Living in Harmony
A few Sundays ago, at church, a man bore his testimony about the First Vision. He spoke beautifully and the spirit was there, until the moment he said, “Joseph Smith had struggled to say what he wanted to say, but when he tried again, he was able to speak to...
by Delisa Hargrove | Jan 5, 2020 | Delisa Hargrove: Applying Gospel Principles
On New Year’s Day, President Russell M. Nelson shared the following message on social media: When I spoke during last October’s general conference, I designated 2020 as a bicentennial period commemorating 200 years since God the Father and His Beloved...
by Ashley Dewey | Jan 3, 2020 | Ashley Dewey: Single Life
This is part five in Ashley’s eight-part health journey series. To read part four, click here. Back to the hospital we went, and what happened next may have been the most traumatizing experience of my life. I was told to undress. I was not allowed to have...
