Jacob 5:48-60 In this section of verses the Lord and His servant decide to graft back the original branches, meanwhile only removing those wild ones that bear the MOST bitter fruit (v. 57). Do you hear what I hear? I hear the mercy and kindness of the Lord, His long-suffering, patience and forgiveness and tolerance. […]
My Inclination to Always Trust God
MY INCLINATION TO ALWAYS TRUST GOD I don’t know where I got this willingness to always trust the idea of God. To always trust in God. To always trust God. But I always did. I can’t remember when I didn’t. Ever. And since you don’t talk to people you don’t trust, I can see why […]
Hearing Him
Testimony recorded Feb. 5, 2007 I have lived to experience the most important aspect of the Atonement for me while I am still in mortality—personal revelation, personal communion with the Lord Jesus Christ, through His light and through the Gift of the Holy Ghost. The Holy Ghost’s greatest gift to me is “the words of […]
Controversy or Catastrophe?
ABORTION: Controversy or Catastrophe? To me, abortion on demand, as an “Oops-I-slipped” form of birth-control, defies rational argument and yet demands, of every human soul, a conclusion. The depth of pathos; of ”gut-level” instinctive feelings that I am experiencing when considering the number of human lives discarded since “Roe vs Wade,” like so much inconvenient […]
Entering Into His Rest-Again
Good morning! Welcome to a new day! This morning, during my morning counsel with the Lord, He invited me to review the Patterns of Light, Step Six exercise for week 1, day 2. I found it grounded in Moroni 7:3. Moroni 7:3 “You . . . that are the peaceable followers of Christ, and that […]
Writing to Ponder and Hear
PERSONAL/SHARING AT THE ONLINE MEETING October 1, 2005 (Note the date. This is the text of a share I posted at the Heart t’ Heart online phone meeting on this day.) Hi. Colleen, here. Grateful to be here. Grateful for your friendship and fellowship in recovery. Grateful for the Restoration of the Gospel of Jesus […]
Too Precious to Waste
Warning! Stream of consciousness, lightly edited sharing ahead. Good morning! Just for the heck of it, I thought I’d share my first journal entry for this morning. PER/HERE AND NOW — July 11, 2020 4:44 am Okay. So this is today. This is how it begins. At not quite 3 am, I woke up and […]
The Next Morning
It Is Silent Now Sunday August 27, 1989 It is 3 o’clock in the morning. The last of my dearest friends, sisters as surely as if we were related by blood, have both just hugged me good-bye and ever-so-quietly, even reverently closed my front door behind them . . . click. It is silent now. […]
One Late August Evening
The following excerpt is from a collection of memoir and poetry I compiled and published some years ago. It captures the moment I learned of Carolyn’s passing. “Train Up A Child” (Proverbs 22:6) It was August. Late August. It was late in the day as well as the month. Later than I realized. At […]