Times are getting very challenging on just about every level and in every area of our lives. It seems like all of us are facing something that no earthly power–our own or others–can save us from. Thank God, our Father, for sending His Son into this fallen world to comfort and counsel us through all […]
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 […]
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 […]
Writing Through a Block
I’m so on fire about my memoir project. It’s a big one–wanting to write a series of from 5 to 8 books tracking God’s amazing gift to me of my life story, now that I can see it through His compassionate eyes. This morning, when I started, though, I couldn’t get past a block, past […]
Commanded vs Counseled
This morning, as I was writing in my journal I was reminded of the “mystery” of how it is that the Lord would inspire His Prophet to testify to us: “The constant and recurring question in our minds, touching every thought and action of our lives, should be, ‘Lord, what wilt thou have me to […]
The Everlasting Word is My Salvation
Good morning! I share the following scripture likening experience in order to rejoice in the testimony of so many prophets that we can liken the scriptures unto our own lives. Even though Alma was asking in these five verses about the experience of a whole group of people, I felt invited to think of his […]