I have wistful moments at the strangest times-like today-driving northbound down my street headed to pick up my boys from school at 2:00pm after stopping by the store. (Whew! That’s a lot of prepositional phrases-which is why you feel out of breath right now.) The moments never last long so I try to pause and…
Resistance…you got me!
When my cousin came to our home to speak about addiction recovery, he made a very interesting distinction that I had never considered. He suggested that viewing pornography is just one way of acting out on a lust addiction. This was new territory for me. I had always considered pornography viewing as the addiction; but he expanded the scope into lust addiction…
A few years ago I had a dream. It was absolutely the most terrifying experience of my life. I awoke too afraid to close my eyes again…for a very long time.Trying to pray away the feeling inside of me wasn’t enough. I woke up my husband and tried to drag him into the experience-hoping for…
To start a series on addiction recovery, I feel that a good definition of addiction is in order. I could get all clinical on you-but I won’t; that is rarely helpful to most of us lay people. The best definition that I have ever encountered was given by my cousin at a pornography addiction…
Whoa! It’s been a full summer and I haven’t posted forever, but today I am so pleased. And I am ready to tackle a blog series that has been on my mind for a very long time. For several years now I have hoped that, as religious folk, we could get serious about addiction. It…
I believe, as did the writers of the Book Of Mormon, that it is a book just for OUR day. The ancient civilizations never had a nice, compiled book like we have. They had plates and plates of different types of records which were not open to public viewing; but were kept under close surveillance…
This is not a post about the kind of guilt that we feel when we commit sin. I would like to post on that sometime…but not today. Today I want to write about the guilt that we feel because we live in the 21st century, or in America, or in a middle class family, or…
As I sat in a planning meeting preparing to leave for a 10-day humanitarian trip to Guatemala, I had a distinct phrase float into my mind. I pay attention to float-ins and this one in particular stuck with me: PACK A SACRIFICE. This became my mini-mission as I thought about what to put in my suitcase. We…
My ten day trip to Guatemala gave me a new perspective on perfect love
Stand Still 