Singles, Take Your Business Card to the Temple! Pt 1
Author’s note: Just one week before our 25th wedding anniversary, this post is a tribute to my sweet husband and the events that brought us together. I’ve learned that when you want a miracle in your...
View ArticleIn Good Hands
We don’t know any of their names—not one. Yet their story is one of the most-recognized and well-known experiences shared in the Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ. Even if we knew their...
View ArticleSocial Distancing and Dating
“I will go; I will do the things the Lord commands! I know the Lord provides a way; He wants me to obey.” This simple childlike faith found in the words of a primary song is probably what led me to try...
View ArticleA Beacon in the Night
Almost a year ago, I was called as the Young Women’s camp director for our ward. I had worked with the young women as the first counselor in the Young Women’s presidency several years before and was...
View ArticleWomen, He Is In Our Midst!
It’s Mother’s Day. Mother’s Day evokes such diverse reaction from women I know. As I considered the women I know, I imagined them in their homes, doing the things women do. I wondered how the Lord...
View ArticleAbigail as Template of a Mediator
I stare at the screen for an hour with nothing to say. My life lessons seem so inconsequential amidst the great injustices and suffering of our times. So I just want to share one of my favorite...
View ArticleReading vs. Studying
I have been reading the Book of Mormon on nearly a daily basis for several years. My husband and I read a chapter together each night. When we get to the end of Moroni, we begin again at 1 Nephi. It is...
View ArticleWomen in the Kingdom: Doctrine vs Culture
In recent years, I have learned more about women’s issues and paid closer attention to both the inequalities between women and men in our society, as well as spaces that have actively elevated women. I...
View ArticleAm I Ready to Be Clean?
As I was giving my dog, Casper, a bath, he was sitting on his feet. Actually, everything that he could possibly hide from me was underneath him: feet, legs, tail, stomach, etc. He even had his head...
View ArticleWomen in the Kingdom: Priesthood Privilege
Yes, yet another article about how the priesthood applies to women. Have you heard enough yet? Yes, you have—well, I hope you really do have all the answers. No, you haven’t—great! In recent years,...
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