Surprises and Sunshine

Surprises and Sunshine

Last week was my birthday—yeah! I’m now 41 years old!!! I used to complain about getting older, until a good friend bluntly (I prefer my friends to be the blunt kind!) told me, “Why are you complaining, it’s better than the alternative!” She’s right, so I enjoyed...
Family

Family

My nephew’s high school football coach was a great motivator. He used an abbreviation to rally the team together during practices and for each game. The abbreviation was F.A.M.I.L.Y. It stood for, “Forget about me. I love you.” The letters spell family—the highest and...
No Exception to God’s Love

No Exception to God’s Love

This week in a conversation with a friend it came up that the blessings of the gospel applied fully to everyone else, but not to him. Or at least that was his perception. As we talked about why he would be the exception to the rule so many thoughts flooded my mind. I...
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