Nephi’s Bow
There is a story in the Book of Mormon of a broken bow, but it turns out to be a story about much more than that. 600 B.C. Lehi has left Jerusalem and taken his family into the wilderness. In …
Category: Attitude
Get in Touch with Your Inner Tortoise
UNSTRUNG HEROS Recently a school in Scotland determined students were being over-worked and over-burdened with homework. It was decided that no student under the age of 13 would receive homework. Highly motivated, over-achieving parents freaked out. “Our children will fall …
Lessons from Eden
Sometime after Adam and Eve left the Garden of Eden, they were commanded to offer a sacrifice to the Lord. An altar was built and an offering given. After many days an angel of the Lord appeared and said: “Why …
Be Still and Know that I Am God
At the doors to Buddhist temples stand two lions. These statues stand as sentinels on either side of the door guarding the entrance. To enter the temple, one must pass these lions; one is Fear and the other is Pride. …
I Love Christmas
I love Christmas! I love everything about it . . .well, almost everything. It is my intention every year to have the time and the peace to enjoy all the things I love most. And that takes planning ahead. And …
Live Life Joyfully
One of life’s wake up calls is the first time you look in the mirror and see wrinkles. It reminds us how much time has passed, and unfortunately, if you are a glass-half-empty person, it can remind you how little …
Come What May
Post 18
Very few of us are living the life we imagined 10 years ago. The difference is some of us are loving life and its unexpected changes, while others resent the surprises they’ve been handed. When we are young, we don’t …
Built on a Rock
Blog Post 13
In his Sermon on the Mount Christ gives the analogy of the wise and the foolish men. The wise man builds his house upon a rock and the foolish man builds upon the sand. The sand is a shifting foundation …