So my mom told me the other day she was coming to stay with me for 2 weeks. She hasn't lived with me in almost 2 years, well her and her bf broke up. She's decided to move to Texas to live with a friend of hers. I know when she lives it'll hurt just like last time, and the time before that, and the time before that. I'll end up crying my eyes out and not talking to anyone for days. I've been there and back a few times. I know that I have God to lean on and to comfort me....but it still hurts... Read More

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Accepting God's Will

Sometimes I feel life has given me enough hardship. I can think that I have had it up to my ears with adversity and really believe that I don't deserve any more of life's surprises. Then mortality smacks me up the side of my head again with another surprising experience and I'm truly humbled. It's very sobering to pray for more understanding of a difficulty and learn that what... Read More

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 None of us want to experience a trial.  Life is hard enough without adding some trials to make it more difficult.   As we experience difficulty and endure it well, we will be able to see beyond this moment in mortality and see what God wants us to learn.  Hearts will be softened as the loving effects of Charity flow through it.  trials will help us understand the needs of our fellowman and we will be able to serve the Master... Read More

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Thorns in the Flesh

I was watching a disabled man struggle tonight and I wondered why he has had to carry such a burden, I thought that he must surely have other afflictions unseen by me and related to his disability. It came home to me that his weaknesses and afflictions (Thorns in the Flesh so to speak) were given to him to teach him more of his unique lessons in life. He is becoming a stronger... Read More

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Second to Last

Years ago at BYU I ran with the track team. I think it was the greatest team ever to be assembled in the BYU track program. They had won many consecutive Conference titles and some of the team members were true Olympians.

As a member of that Team I never came in first, second, third, fourth or anywhere near the top. My expected finish by everyone... Read More

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