For any of you that are fighting fear this new year: I sat down in church this New Year's Day morning and read the program I had just been handed: "Be of good cheer, your future is as bright as your faith!" It was EXACTLY what I needed to be reminded of this morning. As a mother, I sometimes start to worry and wonder and feel concerned about what's going on in my Continue Reading
If you Have a Silent Night
It is very silent here right now, late at night. Well, actually early morning... The lights of the Christmas tree glisten with ethereal magic behind me. Those lights dance and reflect off of ribbons and papers strewn across the floor, for Santa has already come and unloaded his bundles right here in our living room you know! It was a wonderful night!- not silent at all. It was filled with Continue Reading
Wonderful Thanksgiving!
Happy, Happy, HAPPY Thanksgiving everyone!!!! A little belated in America and even more so in Canada, but I hope you had (or have) the most wonderful time counting all your blessings with friends and family nearby, whenever that time comes for you! And I hope you REJOICE as we get to celebrate the wonder of the Christmas season ahead and prepare for a happy New Year!!! My 14 year old Continue Reading
A Brilliant Autumn Day of Glory
It's been rainy and dreary and chilly here in PA -which was a great blessing to us yesterday as ALL of our children's events were cancelled!- and we snuggled indoors together to relish the wonderful opportunity of listening to general conference together without a worry in the world.(Well Isaac got to be there in person! And Emily and Anna are watching as they serve missions in OR and CA. And our Continue Reading
God Bless America!!!!!
Happy 4th of July!!! Happy Independence day!! AMAZING blessing of freedom from oppression, freedom for new opportunities, freedom to worship how, where, and what we may, freedom to CHOOSE!!!!! Wow, GLORIOUS FREEDOM!!!!! But it was a rainy, gray day here reminding me that the sunshine and joy and exhilarating opportunity of freedom can be threatened by storm clouds that gather. Here are some Continue Reading
“Every Second Counts On the Clock that’s Tickin!”
A brilliant, gorgeous, red-orange fire, that was filling up the sky with breathtaking beauty, woke me up this Monday morning. The light of that sunrise was streaming through our bedroom windows as our little Clara climbed onto the bed to snuggle beside me for a few minutes (her morning tradition that I treasure). I told Gracie who was getting ready for school nearby to "look and see"! She said, Continue Reading