how did it happen?
When I talk to people about Joy and her dying, the first thing most people ask, without even really thinking about it is: How did it happen? I don’t know if it’s just human nature or an involuntary...
View ArticleMore Than Conquerors
I am taking part in a worldwide campaign to share a celebration of Easter and how Jesus Christ has changed the world. This is a slightly edited version of something I wrote last year. In the midst of...
View Articlea happy thing
It is good to feel lost… because it proves you have a navigational sense of where “Home” is. You know that a place that feels like being found exists. And maybe your current location isn’t that place...
View Articlethe darkness is only the night
Sometimes I get caught up in the darkness.I whine and complain and get lost in all of the Bad Things.I was alright until this afternoon, and then I just got swallowed up and couldn’t even see...
View ArticleHere Is Hope
He who healed our sorrows Here was bruised and broken. He whose love no end knows Here was forsaken, Left all alone.Here despair cries boldly, Claiming this its vict’ry. Sweeter peace enfolds me: Hope...
View Articleroar.
I just need to write about everything that’s been on my mind lately. Very sad things are happening around the world. I think that’s been happening ever since people had the ability to choose evil over...
View Articlethanks, bishop and sister s.
My bishop’s wife, Sister S., is a spunky, sassy, amazing, liberated, powerful woman. She runs probably like 100 miles per day. Pushing a stroller. Smiling. She went on a handcart trek when she was 8...
View Articleglorious.
I am going on a date tonight. A movie date. And I am pretty excited because the movie we’re going to see is about me. No, it’s not about me, personally. I mean who could be gorgeous enough to portray...
View Articleordain women? we don’t know what we have.
“Sisters, some will try to persuade you that because you are not ordained to the priesthood, you have been shortchanged. They are simply wrong, and they do not understand the gospel of Jesus Christ....
View Articlei would give it away…
I want to read through General Conference. This time, especially, it filled me like rain on parched ground. As I get older, time flies, but the time between conferences seems almost too long these...
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