Do you see the glass half empty of half full? When you meet someone new, do you see something positive about them or is your first impression something negative? We lived in Colorado Springs for a time in our lives, and we were mostly unhappy there. We didn’t like the Bishop because he seemed cold and […]
How would you feel if you decided to choose to love everyone and hate no one? Would your brain be freed up to think of ways of serving mankind rather than spending time stacking up all the thoughts of why you hate someone? I am fascinated by all the comments that are being made about President […]
Have you noticed that it’s not as easy being an adult? All those years when you couldn’t wait to be old enough to live on your own. Free to live any way you wanted to live. Free to make decisions all by yourself. What we were never taught was that there were new rules and with […]
When Ben went off to college, he was the last of my kids to vacate the house. His room immediately became my husband’s office. But the silence and the lack of other’s present besides just my husband and myself was like “death”. It was almost unbearable being in a 5 bedroom house and only using 1 of […]
In the words of Brooke Castillo, “love just loves”. We don’t have to wait for it to be given to us…….we get to love who ever we want to love.I We don’t have to get their permission or approval to love someone. They don’t have to deserve to be loved. They don’t have to even want […]
I was always having to make a choice between two good choices. Hopefully, this dilemma comes up often. We as humans, don’t liking making the wrong choice even if both produce positive outcomes. I believe if we can’t make a decision between two good choices, we need to gather more information, make a decision, pray about, and then […]
General Conference took on particular meaning to me, while living in Kenya. We were well connected to the Church, but to hear anything current from America was especially fulfilling. It was wonderful to witness the zealous faith of these African members. They loved the prophet; they followed him without reservations; he and the restored gospel was the […]
It's difficult to accept our children's behavior when it is contrary to our expectations. We hurt more than we have ever hurt in our entire lives, when they make choices that don’t align with our expectations. We hurt because we think their future is in great peril. They often choose to question or even stop […]
I imagine my Heavenly Mother coming to me in my pre-mortal life telling me that my Father wished to speak with me. He told me that soon I would going to earth to get my physical body. He also told me that I would have an exceptionally amazing family. One of His special spirits would […]
