Of Motes and Beams
I had gotten my ‘complaining pool’ down to a small group of a select few. That’s ok, right??! I can rally a few people into my corner, right?
I Remember
I lunched with my friend, Jennilyn, recently who stopped me in the middle of our conversation and said, “Sarah, do you remember anything that your parents said to you?” Uh, no, not really-especially not when you consider all of the dialogue that goes on in a home of 10 people who live together for 18+…
Job # 3: Final Authority
Final Authority: (This is one job that must be enjoyed while it is in play because it can disappear overnight.) My children ask me the most random, interesting, perceptive questions and somehow because I own the car keys, I am supposed to know the answers. “Why are the cousins late?” “Why makes blue?” “Why did…
Feeling Stuck? Capture Some Joy
Do yourself a big, fat favor and haul out your patriarchal blessing and start studying it. There is so much there for you to discover. I am just now starting to realize what my blessing might really be saying and it is thrilling. I do not doubt that you will have a similar experience. After…
Accelerated Sanctification: Don’t Expect Ease
I have friend that decided to move out of a comfort zone. She had three children. She was happy with that. She had no plans to have anymore children. She and her good husband were going to raise these three with everything they could offer-which is A LOT. She had had difficult pregnancies accompanied…
Golden Plates or Children?
I love it when the Spirit takes a passage of scripture and illuminates it for me in a whole new way. This particular passage is written by the hand of Joseph Smith as a recounting of the events surrounding his reception of the golden plates from the angel Moroni. Take that same passage and now,…
Hastening The Work Personally
If we are awake at the wheel, then I am confident that all of us have felt a quickening in our souls every time someone says, “HASTENING THE WORK OF SALVATION”. Things are speeding up which also means that the excitement factor doubles. This movement in ‘The Church’ is reaching out it’s breezy arms to all…
Creating Environments instead of Decorating
Studying the Creation one day, I was quite overcome by the realization that the Lord spent FIVE of the SIX creative periods just making the earth beautiful. He didn’t have to create beauty. We could have come to a drab, gray, virtually lifeless world to work out our salvation. Plants and trees and animals are not…
Women of the World, UNITE
Last Thursday I was reading in the April 2014 New Era on page 5-an article by Russell M. Ballard of the Quorum of the 12 Apostles. Under point number 5 (We Need to Know and Bear Testimony of Doctrine) he states: ‘We need the women of the Church to know the doctrine of Christ and…
Seek For Peace, Not Solutions
I had a strong impression not too long ago that instead of seeking for solutions and answers all of the time, we would do well to first seek for peace. Then, when we are in a calm and Godly state of mind, the solutions will come…maybe. But even if a solution isn’t readily apparent, at…
Stand Still 