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 […]
Step 3 – AOAN
Step 3 – As Often As Needed I have learned that turning my will and my life over to God is not a one time event. I’ve heard some people give talks and say that it has been like that for them–a one time, flip of a switch, deal. But for me, for whatever reason, […]
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 […]
Make Friends with Him
For the last 21 years, I’ve been blessed to live with one of my dearest friends, Phil Harrison. Many of you have heard him bear his unwavering testimony of our Savior in both song and spoken witness. As President Nelson lifts the standard high concerning hearing Christ’s counsel, I feel honored to share a portion […]
The Gift of Atonement
THE SUM AND THE SUBSTANCE OF THE WHOLE MATTER On pages 150-151 of The Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, the Prophet Joseph explains just Who and What is being described in John 14:16-20. 16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for […]
Our Errand from the Lord
Jacob1:17 …having first obtained mine errand from the Lord. In this verse Jacob is sharing with us the actions he took after he first “obtained [his] errand from the Lord.” This is exactly what we need to do every day of our lives—obtain our errand from the Lord. We need to set aside […]
The Power of the Little Bit
Over 30 years ago I felt the Spirit of the Lord invite me to stop skimming the surface of the Book of Mormon and slow down and record the thoughts and insights He opened to me. Here is another excerpt from Jacob that surely fits the times we are living in. (And especially as we […]
Zenos’s Allegory
Jacob 5:1-2 How fascinating to make note (in verse 1) that this allegory is actually Jacob rehearsing (for the next 76 verses!) the teaching and testimony of Zenos, a prophet “of old,” (Alma 33:3). In fact, looking back, we see that Nephi quoted at length from Zenos’s prophesies of Christ’s life (1 Nephi 19:9-16). And […]
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