Please consider this an interpretive (even fictionalized) account of Genesis 19. [written in 1999]

Lot sat at the gate of Sodom in the evening, conversing with men, as was the custom.  He looked up and saw two priesthod messengers approaching Sodom.  He rose up to meet them and knelt and and bowed himself with his face to the ground.  "Please, Brethren," said Lot.  "I am thy servant.  Come into my home for the night, wash your feet, and then ye may rise up earl... Read More

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Clear your mind.  You are going to have a vision.

Find a time and place where you can relax.  Perhaps close your eyes if it helps.

Please envision your best life.  Notice what you see, hear, smell, move, who you know, etc.  For many of you, you won't have to make up a thing.  The vision will be something you already know, that has been built up beginning in your youth.  You can start jotting down notes of as many things as you can acknowledge.

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Our 2nd Article of Faith states: "we believe that men will be punished for their own sins, and not for Adam's trangressions." http://scriptures.lds.org/a_of_f/1

The 2nd Article of Faith is based on our belief that each person is accountable for his/her own choices; we have been given the ability to make choices, and have to be responsible for them.
No, Adam is not to blame for the poor choices I've made in my life!!! and it's my privilege to make another choice which is to repe... Read More

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My heart is breaking for children that have died. 
I live on the Nisqually river, and 2 children have died.  The mom made choices that where bad and the children pay the price.
The mother chose to take a ride from a stranger on a boat.  The stranger was drinking.  The mother got on the boat, and did NOT put a life jacket on either of her kids.
The boat hit something and tipped.  The mother lived, the stranger lived.  The ot... Read More

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I have been blogging with ideas you can use like puzzle pieces or building blocks to put together to make a creative and ordered life for yourself -- a functioning whole.   Puzzle pieces, building blocks . . . you can also imagine a dial that is used for tuning -- sometimes tuning dials just need tiny adjustments; sometimes more.

I want to talk about those greater adjustments to that dial.  Sometimes we need to make choices and designs that are major, and until we d... Read More

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