Our covenant experiences may not always be what we imagine or expect. They may be different than what others experience.
And our covenant journey—the path we are on that leads us home—is not exactly easy.
But the power and blessing of the covenants we make are what I find to be real and enduring.
A friend shared with me something that has caused an enormous amount of pondering over the past year, “I like who you were then, but I really like who you are today.”
There will be nights of darkness. There will be nights when your nets come up empty. And there will be nights of light and nets that fill. And then maybe more waiting. Or maybe a call that will forever change the direction of your life.
I don’t know why such beauty can come of tragedy; I just know that sometimes it does. I don’t know why faith and hope are strengthened in the most trying times; I just know that they can be.
A few weeks ago as I was reading in the Book of Mormon in 1 Nephi 17-18, my thoughts turned to ship building, as they do. Nephi and his family were living in a land they called Bountiful–because it was bountiful in fruit and wild honey and the Lord prepared things for them. Sounds nice […]
The gospel of Jesus Christ was and is for all. In our efforts to share the gospel, if we want to create a welcoming place for others, we can first start by welcoming those already here among us, but who may not feel like they belong.
Note: Our Relief Society does a little newsletter each month with a message. I was asked to write the message for December and I hemmed and hawed all of November about what to write. The night I needed to turn it in I still had no ideas, until this (the story below) happened, so it […]
Go and Do, Something New, and Shared Experiences. Three lessons from President Russell M. Nelson’s challenge to read the Book of Mormon in 2018.
Sometime life just hits with you with feelings. Like lessons in Church on preparing missionaries to serve. And two sisters leaving on their missions in my ward. And another whose call just came. And a gal I babysat getting home and another who just got her call and another who is serving with so much […]
Last night, I sang many of the chorus songs in George Frideric Handel’s Messiah. We have likely all heard the “Hallelujah” chorus, and I hope we have felt the exultant joy of “For Unto Us a Child is Born.” I, too, had heard the well-known pieces and loved them for a long time. But the entirety […]