The Beaten Man
This week, on the road of Jericho, I have found myself in the role of the man—stripped, wounded and left half dead. Through a combination of life’s circumstances, I have been crawling through every moment. My body has been wracked with exhaustion and pain as months’...
Masterpiece
A few years ago I found myself in an art museum with just my infant. We were waiting for my older daughter while she attended a teen art club at the museum. We wandered until my little baby declared herself hungry. I sat down in from of some impressionist painting and...
Opportunity for Families to Share the Gospel
If you are close to a member, or are a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, you know how the youth are encouraged to serve missions. Serving a mission is typically when someone from 18 to 25 years old gives up 18 months to 2 years of their life...
Neither a Borrower Or Lender Be
Neither a borrower nor a lender be, For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. — Shakespeare, Hamlet Act 1, Scene 3 My Dad put it another way, “Don’t borrow anything you can’t afford to replace.” I was looking at my kitchen...
6 Reasons Cousin Fawn Dares You to Do Family History
It seems like every Mormon family has an aunt or cousin who has done “all of the genealogy for the family.” For my maternal grandfather’s line, that person is mom’s cousin Fawn. She’s connected family ties for years and years, yet I’ve never heard her say,...
How To Run Away
“She ran away and didn’t look back. She just kept going. It didn’t matter where to, it was away from. She knew it was crazy, that the feeling would pass, and she’d just have to go back in the morning. But, for now, all that mattered was getting some distance,” I...
Finances
Finances . . . could we not talk about this please? I don’t like worrying about money, I don’t like thinking about money, and I don’t like planning for money. When my daughter was 11 years old she asked me: “What’s going to happen to Joe when you and Dad are gone?”...
Defending Our Religion
Have you ever heard something while listening to a conversation and just known it wasn’t true? That there is just no way that could have ever happened? For me, I don’t know what to be sad about more. The fact that this person claims this happened to someone, or the...
How Living the Gospel Enhances My Sexuality and Spirituality
This article was previously published on LDSLiving.com by Danielle Beckstrom Sexuality. I know it’s a word that we don’t address head-on in Mormon culture that often, but I’ve found it to be a central part of fully understanding and living the gospel. News agencies,...
Agency- Our Right To Choose
THIS ARTICLE WAS PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED IN MORMONBASICS.COM. One of the things we assume in life, like we assume we will be able to take our next breath, is our ability to choose from moment to moment what we will do. When someone takes that ability away from us we feel...
Family Movie Night: Tinker Bell
Welcome to another week’s pick for Family Movie Night! This marks my 10th entry in this column (12th video on my channel). I’ve really enjoyed working on the series so I hope you have as well. Today I hope I can introduce you to a series which may have fallen...
The Many Faces of Prayer
How complicated are the relationships you have with loved ones in your life? You have friends in varying circles and family members of differing degrees of closeness. You may temper your conversations with them according to their age, maturity, or social and religious...
Liken The Scriptures
Jack was the youngest of twelve brothers. As the youngest and most favored of their parents his older brothers hated him. His parents doted on him, giving him expensive clothes and electronic games which really caused a rift between brothers. While on a family...
Conquer Your Fear
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear. — Nelson Mandela I don’t deal well with life changes. I find them stressful on several levels. I have learned...
A Prophet’s Voice
This last weekend, our family snuggled in pajamas and blankets as we curled up to watch General Conference, to hear the words of the living prophets—it is one of our favorite family traditions EVER! We clear the weekend of plans and we watch every session together. As...
How to Weather A Crisis
The threat becomes clear in a moment, perhaps by a phone call, a letter, or a realization. Ours came in the form of a letter. Our homeowners insurance was dropping us. No big deal, right? But our home was underwater (meaning we owed way more than we could sell it...
Life is an Extraordinary Gift
I watched a program recently. It reflected on the sacrifices of the early saints and handcart pioneers who suffered so much that we could have the blessings today of the gospel in its fullness. It’s called 17 Miracles, and I highly recommend it. Perhaps it was...
The Benefits Of Music In The Home
I was having one of those days. You know, the kind where the kids are running in circles around you, and the noise level is so out of control that you can't even hear yourself shouting? Yes, it was not a good day. I was about to yell and ground and punish every...
My Secret’s Out: I Was A Victim Of Abuse
I was born into a strong LDS family. Both of my parents had pioneer ancestors. My father and mother respected one another, worked together, supported one another and raised our family in the gospel. My dad would open doors for my mother, his daughters and all women...
Our Story of Conversion
I have always felt a little uncomfortable reading about the Apostle Peter. I think it is because there are parts of his life that remind me of myself. As we look at the account of Peter’s life we should look at the pattern he set for us. In a way, Peter’s life is a...
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