Ashley’s Dating Quest: A Different Lesson
Coming out of a dead sleep to feelings of tension, stress, and overwhelming concern is a reason to contemplate what’s really bothering you. Sometimes the lesson we think we are supposed to learn turns out to be completely different than we expected!
Words Will Definitely Hurt You
This post was originally published on Mormon Hub on December 19, 2016. Minor changes have been made. “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.” Okay, listen up: I have some major beefs with this phrase. Who exactly made...
Safe Hands
This time of year, we are preparing for the harvest. I know it sounds strange to discuss the harvest in the spring, but we must think about and plan now in order to have delicious fruits and vegetable in the fall. Mom’s pickles were the best. She would choose...
Who is the Holy Ghost?
My friend Tracey shared some thoughts about the Holy Ghost, His role, and influence in our lives that I wanted to share. Her thoughts were based on President Henry B. Eyring's “His Spirit to Be with You” and Elder Larry Y. Wilson “Take the Holy Spirit as Your...
Father’s Day
I think the Fathers have it right. There are very few fathers that spend Father’s Day lamenting not being better fathers. They don’t beat themselves up for every small mistake, like many mothers do. Most men have an easier time sitting back and enjoying some family...
Loaves and Fishes
GOAL: To focus on living the Parable of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10:30-37) for one year. In Matthew, chapter 15, Christ is teaching a group of four thousand men, and an unknown number of additional women and children. These followers had been listening to Christ teach...
Is God Still in Our Lives?
This article was originally published with LDS Blogs in 2008 by our beloved, and since departed, former editor, Terrie Lynn Bittner. We are still being blessed by your light and testimony, Terrie, and we are forever grateful for you. There are many people who...
Preposterous
Ludicrous. Absurd. Ridiculous. Outlandish, unreasonable, and irrational. And I'm just getting started. Maybe you have heard these terms echoed by those who do not share your religious beliefs. If so, you’re not alone. Church history and the Book of...
Be on the Offensive Against Satan
In February, my husband and I attended an extraordinary stake conference. The Spirit was incredibly strong in both sessions. I’ve been thinking about it off and on ever since, so it obviously made an impression on me. I don’t have exact quotes, but I did take notes....
Draw Near Unto Me
This article was previously published by the author in August 2017. In D&C 88:63 the Lord extends four invitations coupled with four amazing promises. He invites us to draw near to Him, to seek Him diligently, to ask, and to knock. In return for our...
Smiling: A Recipe for Happiness
My friend Barbie Dodson is the picture of sunshine. But if you truly got to know her, you'd discover that she consciously and intentionally decides to live that way. She shared some of her philosophy with me and I wanted to share it with others. Smiling:...
Time Passes
Tick Wow! Less than five months left until your son comes home? That went so fast! Tock You must be counting down the weeks now! Tick It feels like he just left! Tock Time has ceased to have its usual course of action...
The Very Thought of Thee
One of my favorite Hymns in the LDS Hymn Book was written by a Frenchman in the middle of the dark ages. Born in the year 1091, Bernard of Clairvaux lived more than a thousand years after the great apostasy, which resulted in the removal of the priesthood from the...
Strength Beyond My Own
Think about the greatest challenge of your life. At one point, for me, that time was my mission. It consisted of trying my hardest every day with no success, enduring loneliness, learning a foreign language, frequently coming up short, studying every moment...
What Do Mormons Believe About God?
What do members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints believe about God? This is a huge question. While it may have a simple answer, its implications are far-reaching. If we truly know God, who He is and what His role is in our lives, we can understand...
The Lord Will Consecrate Our Afflictions
Choosing a favorite scripture is sort of like choosing a favorite star in the sky — or, if I'm being honest, a favorite topping on pizza (I love all food equally, okay?) — but if I was really hard-pressed, I'd have to say my favorite scriptural passage is found at the...
Faith
There we were sitting in Sunday school, talking about faith. Our teacher asked us each to think of someone in the scriptures who had shown incredible faith. Noah, Moses, and the Mormon Pioneers were all mentioned. As I sat there, I was caught by a wave of emotion...
Receiving the REAL Truth
I planned everything around something I believed to be true. I posted a link to information of our beloved President Thomas S. Monson's funeral on our ward Facebook page. In my mind, the funeral was Friday (so this Friday) at 10:00 AM MST, so 7:00 AM HST....
See Me
Do you see me? Even as I stand before you, are you really seeing me? My struggles, my strengths, my imperfections, my beautiful triumphs, everything that adds up to my wonderfully flawed and fabulous self? Can you see into the depths of my eyes to see the pain...
The Growing Season
It’s the growing season and I’ve just planted my seeds in our garden. What a thrill to watch something so small grow into something so miraculous and productive. It’s also a week before my kids are out of school for the summer. I take a deep breath and feel a...
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