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March 2025

March 05, 2025

Hope’s Light: Our Savior’s Loving Gift

by Tom Mullen In hope's light we find our happiness, our confidence, our strength, and...

February 2025

February 12, 2025

Two Prep Years: Marriage-Ready

Two prep years can help you be ready for a lot of life-endeavors. But the...

November 2024

November 20, 2024

Conflicting Lives: One Christmas Choice

At a crucial time I had left one lifestyle and one identity—willingly and joyfully. I...

September 2024

September 11, 2024

Trials and Blessings: Individual Paths

Each individual comes to this world to experience individual trials and blessings. Some will experience...

July 2024

July 17, 2024

Communication With Revelation

In a lifetime of callings that require the Lord's guidance, we have learned the value...

June 2024

June 26, 2024

Faith in Tragedy: “Well With My Soul.”

  Most face pain and grief in their lives. Some lapse into bitterness. Some resilient...

June 19, 2024

Trust and Wait—God’s Timing Prevails

"Trust and wait!" Not popular words. We live in times, places, and societies where we...

May 2024

May 08, 2024

Perfect Plan, Unforgettable Mother’s Day

The only gift my wife wanted for Mother's Day that year was to take a...

March 2024

March 27, 2024

Choices and Efforts: Jordan, A Champion

Two of my children made history this year! Jordan, age 18, and Mariah, age 16,...

December 2023

December 20, 2023

Christmas Presence: Including Christ

Recently we joined one of our granddaughters, who was lying on her back with her...

November 2023

November 29, 2023

The Precious Present

An old man in the neighborhood was peaceful. Neighbors wondered what his secret was. He...

April 2023

April 19, 2023

Working Together to Win: Team-Coach Dedication

As we walked out of the arena after an amazing victory, everyone felt the excitement...

April 12, 2023

Out of Darkness With God’s Light

“I feel it rolling in . . . It feels black as night/stealing all...

March 2023

March 22, 2023

A Bit of Dreaming, Bits of Uncertainty, A Bit of Manipulation

Cinderella married the prince. So did Snow White, Rapunzel, and Sleeping Beauty. They had some...

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...

December 2022

December 14, 2022

The Many or The One: Introvert Anonymous

I don't really remember my first talk in junior Sunday School. I've been told that...

November 2022

November 10, 2022

“That I Might See”–Or not.

  He gave me my eyes that I might see          ...

October 2022

October 26, 2022

A Lens For Eternity

  "Welcome to Godhood 101." Every semester I start the Eternal Family class I teach...

September 2022

September 28, 2022

To Thank and to Endure

Cross country was the first sport for every one of our kids. My wife started...

September 07, 2022

Wisdom, Love, and Protection to Share

On a cool summer evening, Larry greeted our family at the door, dressed in a...

August 2022

August 03, 2022

Lead Me Home

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

July 2022

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 06, 2022

Running—for Fun, for Growth, for Life

Ohhhh summertime is so much fun. Especially after a long, harsh winter in Rexburg, Idaho....

June 2022

June 29, 2022

My Daughter Is a Wrestler

  For years we have been a wrestling family! We love football, track, and basketball...

May 2022

May 11, 2022

The Trash Lesson

My wife and I recently enjoyed dropping our oldest son off at college. We were...

April 2022

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 30, 2022

If I Only Had Today

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3981s_ld3g&t=10s When I write songs, 87.63% of the time I am near a piano. But...

March 23, 2022

Lessons From a Marathon

Once upon a time I ran a marathon—26.2 miles, a long way for someone who...

February 2022

February 23, 2022

Progressing Through God’s Perfect Plan

Sometimes I wish I knew more about who I was premortally. I wonder about my...

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