How God Gets Through to Me: Lessons from my Children

Posted on March 3, 2008. Filed under: motherhood | Tags: , , , , , |

That God refers to himself as a parent has given me great peace and a little angst over that last 5 1/2 years that I’ve been a parent. I realize that my relationship with my children and the lessons I learn from them teach me about my relationship with God. Sometimes it seems to me [...]

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How to Be Good

Posted on January 24, 2007. Filed under: spirituality | Tags: , , |

When I was a teenager, I made a project of searching the scriptures to find out what exactly I had to do to be “saved.” My attempt at making this list proved futile as nowhere in the scriptures is there a checklist of items that you can do and then handily cross them off. To [...]

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Summer Lessons

Posted on August 16, 2006. Filed under: personal notes | Tags: , , |

The summer after my freshman year in undergrad, I worked at a summer camp for children with disabilities in Texas. It would be my first experience away from Utah for any extended period of time. I packed my bags, complete with extra copies of the Book of Mormon, and headed off to the hill country [...]

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for the love of my sisters…

Posted on June 10, 2006. Filed under: Poetry, women | Tags: , , , , |

For the love of a tree, she went out on a limb.
For the love of the sea, she rocked the boat
For the love of the earth, she dug deeper.
For the love of community, she mended fences.
For the love of the stars, she let her light shine.
For the love of spirit, she nurtured her soul.
For the [...]

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