Category: patience

April 19, 2013

Choose Higher Ground

My missionary son wrote his first p-day letter Monday. It was ...

March 29, 2013

Not Pertinent to My Eternal Salvation

A few weeks ago I overheard a comment that has become ...

March 11, 2013

Called to Fall

Half a year and most of a lifetime ago our world ...

March 9, 2013

Gospel Friendship

President Gordon B. Hinckley said that every convert needs three things: ...

March 1, 2013

Enjoying the View

Please welcome Brenda Madore, who has published with us as a ...

February 27, 2013

Standing Still

The clock whispered its allure, tick, tick, tick. Like a marble ...

February 24, 2013

Healing

This last essay in our Peculiar Minds series is by Michelle. A ...

February 23, 2013

My Path Down the Rabbit Hole

This essay in our Peculiar Minds series is anonymously contributed. My wife ...

February 22, 2013

Understanding a Roommate with Schizophrenia

This essay in our Peculiar Minds series is written anonymously, with ...

February 19, 2013

Panic, OCD, Grandma, and Me

This essay is a part of our Peculiar Minds series. I learned ...

February 17, 2013

Understanding Asperger’s

Today's guest essay in our Peculiar Minds series is by Kathy ...

January 30, 2013

On Losing Our Religion

NPR ran a series recently called Losing Our Religion.  Jen posted ...

January 29, 2013

Spiritual ADD

Too often I find myself going through the following cycle: I discover ...

January 23, 2013

Public Dissent and Private Responsibility

My oldest daughter couldn't find a building for her young mothers ...

January 12, 2013

Growing Sin

I don’t like the word repent. Short and chopped at the ...

December 8, 2012

Praying for Charity

Please welcome Maria Farb, who is guest posting with us. “...pray unto ...

November 29, 2012

Motherhood – Service of the Highest Order

The most service I ever do is my day in and ...

November 25, 2012

A Fresh View of Repentance

The Bible Dictionary defines repentance as: "a change of mind, i.e., a ...

November 22, 2012

God is There. Somewhere.

The interesting thing about trials is that the ones we think ...

November 18, 2012

The Map: Imagine If

My second daughter is a senior in high school.  She wrote ...

November 6, 2012

A Storm of Anger

Lying here in the dark I hear the rumbling of a ...

October 25, 2012

Too Proud to be Served?

We had a flood.  It was a little flood really, at ...

October 20, 2012

Arriving Elsewhere

There is an ocean of ideas that flow through my writer’s ...

October 20, 2012

The Autumn of Our Lives

While driving through the mountains on a crisp beautiful autumn day, ...

October 18, 2012

Faith Enough to be Healed

Over 15 years ago I had the privilege of visiting teaching ...

October 15, 2012

Return and Bring Me Word

(Last week.) Once again, the supervisor has put off starting my son ...

October 11, 2012

My Pavilions

President Eyring's words from Sunday morning General Conference hit me right ...

October 8, 2012

The Driving Force of Parenting

My sixteen year old son is learning to drive.  He’s number ...

October 5, 2012

We cannot say, “I have no need of you”

21 And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no ...

October 5, 2012

Four Good Reasons to Attend Church with Hypocrites

At church today I witnessed one of my fellow citizens in ...

October 3, 2012

Messengers from my Father

I could use a revelation. An angel would be good. The other ...

October 2, 2012

“If God Only Knew…”

All people face trials or tests of the divinity that is ...