It’s December 16th, which means we’re right in the heart of Christmastime. And I’ve been busy doing what most of you have been doing–shopping, planning, baking, going to Christmas concerts, and trying to find ways to bless others at this time of year. And yet, again and again, I’ve felt a recurring prompting not …
I know my blog is very Christ-focused, so some may think a post on workouts wouldn’t fit in with that theme at all. But I very much beg to differ. I firmly believe that the Lord is interested in every part of our lives—and that includes our efforts to take care of physical body. It’s …
This week for Young Women, we spent an evening creating wedding time capsules with the girls. It was hilarious to watch how differently they all responded. Some had every detail already planned out in their mind, and others (like one of my daughters) didn’t even know where to begin (and didn’t even really care that …
It’s been a tough week. Well, maybe I should say a tough month. It’s not that everything is going wrong . . . that’s really not the case. So much is going right. But there are just several nagging issues that aren’t resolving as quickly as my impatient little soul would like them to. Funny …
You know when you read a scripture passage and it hits you with such force that you wonder, “How have I never seen that before??” That’s what’s happened to me a few years ago with a passage in Jeremiah chapter 17. I’d breezed by it several times over the years so it wasn’t unfamiliar, …
I’ve been thinking a lot about grace. I don’t think there’s anything that has changed my life more than that one simple word. That’s why it was such a delight to hear President Uchtdorf talk on grace in the April 2015 General Conference. After defining the word, he then said this: “It is a most …
It’s been a tough week. In addition to the hormones kicking in (oh, how I love PMS!), we have an awful lot going on right now. Our missionary leaves in a week so there’s that. But I also have some other stuff—stuff that I can’t really do anything about, but I keep worrying about it …
As long as I can remember, I’ve been a people pleaser. And I made no apologies about it. I truly believed that’s just the way I was. Even as a child, I had a really hard time saying anything that would cause conflict or confrontation. Even the thought doing so would completely paralyze me. After …
I’ll confess that I’ve started and quit this blog several times over the last few years. And I’m feeling the urge to get it started up again. I’m in between writing projects right now (well, kind of) and I though it might be fun to use this as another writing outlet. It’s been an incredibly …
