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January 2023

January 11, 2023

A Storm Surge of Service: Faith During and Afterward

  My brother, who had been staying with us, accepted our invitation to attend our...

January 04, 2023

A Song to Sing: A Destiny to Fulfill

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DObFcC2twto&t=3s “A Song to Sing” is about you and me. A song  of our eternal...

December 2022

December 28, 2022

Thoughtless Short Visions: Fire Extinguishers for Floods

"The game is to have them all running around with fire extinguishers whenever there’s a...

December 21, 2022

The Gift Most Precious: Live in Heavenly Peace

And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God,...

October 2022

October 19, 2022

For A Sacred Life Purpose

In approximately 1884, widowed Sarah Winchester, heiress of a world-renowned fortune, began building her house....

October 05, 2022

Joy of Dancing in the Rain

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jW9dBT9k28o&t=148s) Some of my songs have a creation story. Some just come to life and...

September 2022

September 21, 2022

The Holy Spirit: Our Light and Our Life

In a poetic masterpiece for children, Hello Earth (2021), Joyce Sidman assumes children's voices, asking...

August 2022

August 31, 2022

A Friend With Infinite Love

A beloved hymn of longing for peace in  pain includes the words "In my Gethsemine

August 24, 2022

Trust to Rescue Souls

There is much to doubt or fear in today's world: including hopes that COVID is...

August 17, 2022

Change That Converts and Endures

When told by Christ that "Except a man be born again, he cannot see the...

August 03, 2022

Lead Me Home

When I was in kindergarten through fourth grade, we lived in Cheyenne, Wyoming. The...

July 2022

July 27, 2022

Pottage Now

  Most bible readers are familiar with Esau, who returned from his hunt feeling weak...

July 20, 2022

Trees for Joy or Sorrow

"[God] hath made every thing beautiful in his time" (Ecclesiastes 3:11). The bible's word division...

July 12, 2022

Connecting Past the Covering

Directing a tour to the Holy Land was a blessing for me. I loved being...

June 2022

June 22, 2022

To Savor Through the Ages

“Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour,...

June 15, 2022

The Waiting Place

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tl6wErTzw-A&t=1s I don’t love waiting. You probably don’t either. I’ve never heard someone say, “I...

June 08, 2022

God’s Power in Weakness

When I'm watching sports, I love to see the underdog win. There have been lots...

May 2022

May 25, 2022

Christ’s Pure and Perfect Love

To the well-known incident of the woman taken in "the very act" of adultery, whose...

May 04, 2022

He Will Wipe Away All Tears

"The Lord God will wipe away tears from off all faces." I love this scripture-image...

April 2022

April 27, 2022

The Blessing of Divine Delay

I hate waiting—maybe you do too. But I’ve noticed that God sometimes has us wait...

April 20, 2022

More Ways to Win

  Call me crazy. I’ve always wanted to train for and run a marathon. Ten...

April 11, 2022

Who Loves Us Most of All

Knowing that her three-year-old daughter had had her first primary Easter lesson, a mother decided...

April 06, 2022

Songs, Bibles, and Love

Jesus loves me, this I know,                  ...

March 2022

March 02, 2022

Conflicts, Love and Personal Peace

February 25, as armed conflict raged in Ukraine, Russell M. Nelson addressed Church members in...

February 2022

February 16, 2022

“He Will Find You

 Years ago I was blessed with a particular sacred insight that I turn to repeatedly...

February 09, 2022

Broken Chains, Safe Connection

  Why do children willingly submit to pain for a game called Red Rover? Two...

January 2022

January 26, 2022

Sunrise to Sunrise

Sunrise to Sunrise—I count my days by bright, joyful dawns. I savor each precious...

January 05, 2022

Those Who Mourn, Those Who Seek: Forever Blessed in Christ

Those Who Mourn, Those Who Seek:                  ...

December 2021

December 22, 2021

The Christmas Carolers

Merry Christmas to you and yours, wherever you may be! When I think about the...

December 08, 2021

God’s Love in Our Time of Need

The first (and only) time that I met my only brother was when I was...

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