I have felt very prompted lately to take our daily spiritual habits up a notch. I am realizing that simply doing family scripture study, prayer, and home evening isn’t quite enough. Not for the amount of darkness that is sweeping through the earth at this time in history. We too often just go through the…
There was something very inspiring about the movie The Walk, but also something really sad. We watched it on Friday night – it is about a man who pursues his dream to walk on a tight rope across the World Trade Center towers. He is discouraged by many and circumstances were often not in his…
I’m sitting at the orthodontist waiting for William (he gets braces next week!) so I thought I would take the opportunity to write while I wait. Last week, I did a “scavenger hunt” with my class. I divided them up into teams and I had them find 3 discussion questions in the “wilderness,” discuss, and…
I remember 16 years ago when I used to wake up at night afraid that my baby wasn’t breathing. I would check on her multiple times through the night to make sure she was safe. I was so worried that something would happen to her that I could have prevented. I knew I couldn’t forgive…
We got to celebrate some accomplishment yesterday. First of all, James finished his reading lesson book (it took quite a while, partly because I’m inconsistent and partly because we would sometimes lose the book and we’d have to read from different books).This felt like a pretty big deal, so we went to Baskin Robbins. James…
It is so simple “to look to God and live.” It means I stay grateful throughout the day (easy to do with so many blessings around me!) And do the small things I know I ought to stay spiritually nourished and focused. Counsel with the Lord in all thy doings, and he will direct thee…
I heard an analogy on KLUV the other day about a pumpkin. The world’s largest pumpkin is 2323 pounds. He mentioned that despite it’s gigantic size – it started with a pumpkin seed. He said something about how it grew because it was connected to it’s vine and that we can stay connected to our…
I thought of something while I was exercising… When building muscle, it is recommended that one does several reps with rest in between instead of just pushing through as many as you can and moving on. It made me ponder on rest. Physical rest is easy to explain, but what does spiritual rest look like?…
I wrote a private blog post yesterday, I needed to sort stuff in my mind, but I want to share some of it now after experiencing the joy that came from it. (If you don’t read the post I wrote the day before about “do high expectations cause anxiety and perfectionism,” please do – those…
Early last year, when I realized Cassia was struggling (see her blog for details), the hardest question for me – besides “how can I help her?” – was, “What did I do wrong? How did I create this in her?” As I researched her struggle I found that often those type of problems stemmed from…
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