Come in Out of the Cold!
It’s that time of the year when it feels so good to wrap your hands around a mug of hot chocolate, or to sit down to a steaming bowl of soup or stew. Canned soups, stews, or pasta dishes are convenient and easy to prepare, but convenience comes with a price. It’s all...
10 Principles of Faith
Faith is both a simple thing and a very complicated thing. We create faith starting with a simple act of belief we are willing to act upon, but what happens in our lives once we have started down the road of faith is anything but simple. As I was researching ideas on...
Family Movie Night: Star Wars
I hope you all had a great Christmas week and had a chance to see Star Wars: The Force Awakens in the theater. I normally discuss films available to stream in this column but with Force Awakens being such a huge film I felt I needed to talk about it. If you live...
Temples Show God’s love for all His Children
This is a banner year for us in the Philadelphia area. We, as members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, are getting our own temple. Temples are different from meetinghouses. We worship Jesus Christ on Sundays in our meetinghouses, where we partake of...
Satsumas and Souls
Living in the South has its advantages. One advantage is the opportunity to grow and eat Satsumas. What is a Satsuma you ask? It is one of the best citrus fruits made by God. It is about the size of a tangerine and peels like one too but with one omission: there are...
Progress not Perfection
Making...AND KEEPING..New Year’s resolutions with ONE simple rule: Well, not so much keeping them as living with them. Why am I writing this now? Why write this when many people have already killed their new year’s resolutions by this point? That is exactly why I’m...
Take Care of the Minutes…
A few months ago, I sat across the table, finishing lunch with my friend. She was expressing frustration that no one in our congregation had called her or texted her, despite her missing over a month of church. As she shared her hurt, my mind wandered and I was caught...
Start Where You Are
A new year is always an exciting and motivating time for me! I really love the metaphorical prospects for fresh new starts. But, sometimes, I look back at the closing year and what I didn’t accomplish. I let myself feel discouraged when I see little, or no, progress...
Always Allow Room for Improvement
What a wonderful holiday season! I had been planning a surprise 50th Wedding Anniversary party for my parents for months, and it ended with a successful party- and my gallbladder being removed. Yes indeed, it’s been grand! Okay, so not everything was so wonderful,...
The Wave
I had the good fortune of calling southern Utah my home when I was growing up. We still frequent the area often visiting family, enjoying nature, and participating in the abundant activities there. One of our favorite places is called The Wave. The intricate...
Becoming a Drama Queen
Humans have been interested in sharing other people’s love stories since the beginning of time. In fact, the Bible even begins with one such love story--Eve offering Adam some forbidden fruit. As children, we loved hearing about how our parents found each other while...
Are You (SAD)?
For the past few weeks I have found it increasingly difficult to be motivated, stay on task, or to even work up much enthusiasm for the holidays. My mind kept wandering to different projects, unable to focus on just one thing, preventing me from getting anything...
The Sons of Lehi and Their Zion’s Camp
We don’t usually equate the trips back and forth to Jerusalem by Lehi’s sons with the Zion’s camp in the early days of the restoration. If you look at the goals of Zion’s camp and what was happening with Lehi’s sons, you will find a number of similarities. In effect,...
Family Movie Night: Mr. Peabody and Sherman
After several weeks of fun posts on Star Wars and holiday films I want to get this column back to its original purpose- recommending a film you can stream with your family. So today I am talking about the 2014 underrated comedy from Dreamworks Animation- Mr Peabody...
Be an Army for Good
Christmas was a wonderful day this year, full of family phone calls, text messages, visits—and most importantly, no reminders of the troubles current events. How is it that my Facebook friends who tear into each other every other day of the year can put aside their...
Reactivating Primary Children
This article was previously published on Latterdaysaintwoman.com Reactivation in Primary can be a tricky issue, since you cannot reactivate the child without the permission of the parents. However, you do have one factor strongly on your side: it is very hard for a...
Curiosity Is a Mixed Bag
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything—except what is worth knowing. — Oscar Wilde I admit to spending more time than I should following links on the internet out of total curiosity. Some of the time spent is well worth the time and effort in the...
Simplicity
I love simplicity. When we live a life of simplicity, we have time for who and what we love. It is an inspiring ideal, like balance, that will probably always tease me with it’s down to earth reality check and natural beauty. Simplicity requires us to prioritize...
Accepting His Gifts
Oh, I love receiving gifts. Do you? I love gifts that create experiences and memories. Especially at Christmastime, I think of the thoughtfulness and love that bring gifts into our lives. As I listened to our Christmas Sacrament meeting, my thoughts were drawn to how...
God Doesn’t Always Give Us What We Think We Deserve
This article was previously published on Latterdaysaintwoman.com. I was thinking today about Sam, the older brother of Nephi in the Book of Mormon. He’s one of my quiet heroes. We don’t know much about him, so a lot has to be read between the lines. I think he...
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