Seatbelts
Wednesday, December 31st, 2008 Posted in Emily, Family, Religion | 1 Comment »Tonight, as we were driving home from an enjoyable visit with some friends, Emmi insisted on hearing a particular song on a Christmas CD that we bought a couple of weeks ago. It has a children's choir singing "Carol ...
Strength of the Lord
Monday, December 15th, 2008 Posted in Religion | No Comments »When Elder Bednar came to visit our stake last month, he suggested that we study the Book of Mormon where it mentions the strength of the Lord. Being slow, I'm just starting to get into the topic. So ...
Agency
Sunday, November 9th, 2008 Posted in Religion | 1 Comment »The leadership of our church changed, this week. In The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, each congregation is called a ward. A number of wards usually meet in the same church building. Somewhere between six ...
Arms stretched out
Monday, May 26th, 2008 Posted in Religion | 1 Comment »I'm currently reading all kinds of mythology as background for a book that I intend to write one day. Right now I'm focused primarily on Celtic and Norse mythology, because I think I have a pretty good handle on Greek ...
Sawing Lions
Thursday, May 22nd, 2008 Posted in Emily, Family, Funnies, Religion | 1 Comment »Those vicious kings and angels. I tell you what -- they shouldn't be let within miles of prophets or lions. Or saws, apparently. After all, Isaiah is reputed to have been sawn asunder. And there are a fair number of ...
Ptui!
Thursday, May 22nd, 2008 Posted in Caleb, Emily, Family, Family Home Evening, Funnies, Lizzie, Religion | No Comments »It's a good thing that there are so many scripture stories about or involving water, because my family loves to go swimming for family night. It's easy to work in a scripture story lesson on the way to the pool. ...
Santaless Redux
Tuesday, December 11th, 2007 Posted in Family, Lizzie, Religion | 6 Comments »So, while surfing for presents for our kids, I ran across this conversation being held on Amazon.com about the very topic that I wrote about with Lizzie. Obviously, everyone has an opinion. Some people have opinions stronger than ...
Drought (faith)
Friday, October 20th, 2006 Posted in Poems, Religion | 1 Comment »This is a poem that I started while I was still in college in Utah. Since Utah is a desert, water is scarce. Every time it rains, I feel like running outside and dancing in pure delight. The irony ...
The Holy Ghost in the Old Testament
Monday, July 31st, 2006 Posted in Religion | No Comments »Yesterday I got to thinking about Nephi's understanding of the Holy Ghost. It struck me that Nephi was coming from an Old Testatment, Mosaic law perspective of the gospel, yet he had a mature, deep understanding of the Holy Ghost, ...
