There are many times in our life when we have circumstances that we don't understand and are less than ideal. There are so many struggles we might have: mental health, temptation, addiction, or less than ideal family circumstances. Why do we have to deal with those things? Where are the Lord's blessings? Why is his… Continue reading “Who Against Hope Believed in Hope”
Category: inspiration
Honesty: How to Fix Your Life
Honesty can solve a whole lot of problems. I always thought I was a very honest person: I never told lies or cheated or tried to steal anything, so I was good. But here's the thing: I still very much care what other people think about me, and sometimes dishonesty creeps in as I fail… Continue reading Honesty: How to Fix Your Life
Answer to Prayers
In the last month, we finished building our block wall, took our roof off, and put the roof back on. We are still not done with the project yet, but we have done a lot. We prayed a lot throughout this whole renovation, and I was able to see so many answers to those prayers.… Continue reading Answer to Prayers
The Only Life Hack That Works
I just finished reading a book about habits. I guess part of me wanted to read the book and then immediately have better habits. But it doesn't work like that. I really love self-help books. But self-help books don't change my life. If I read a book about habits, I still have to have the… Continue reading The Only Life Hack That Works
Gulf of misery and endless wo
For our family scripture study, Dillon started reading a familiar scripture: And now, my sons, remember, remember that it is upon the rock of our Redeemer, who is Christ, the Son of God, that ye must build your foundation; that when the devil shall send forth his mighty winds, yea, his shafts in the whirlwind,… Continue reading Gulf of misery and endless wo
A positive future
Instead of worrying about what bad thing might happen, we can rejoice in what good things will happen. When we try to make positive changes, it works. We improve the world daily. For every worst-case scenario, there is also a best-case scenario. Nothing can grow exponentially forever. Growth levels off. We have had so many… Continue reading A positive future
sorrow and joy
Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath… Continue reading sorrow and joy
There is always light
Over the past few days, I have read article after article, trying to figure out how we can go back to normal. I read about different possibilities of what might happen and I want to know how this end. But we don't go back to normal--we find a a new normal instead, something that we… Continue reading There is always light
Hope
Things are rough right now. Pandemics and earthquakes and economic uncertainty. We are looking at a recession and a health crisis and we are all stuck at home, isolated from normal life. I've been checking the news constantly, though I'm not sure what I am looking for--some way to understand this? Some morsel of hope… Continue reading Hope
The Right Thing to Do
I wrote this song for my daughter's baptism and I thought I would share: The_Right_Thing_to_Do (updated)