by Alison Moore Smith | Jul 18, 2007 | for Love, for Spirit
School – It's All About Bob It's more than a little personal. It's what I grew up with. I got bullied every single week at church from just a few weeks after I started kindergarten (when “Bob” moved into my ward), until I was a teenager. I got...
by Joyce Anderson | Jul 10, 2007 | for Love, for Spirit
Motherhood. The feelings that this word can evoke are powerful, joyful and sometimes painful for women. As I have walked the path of infertility, more often than not I have felt the pain of not having children of my own and of not being considered a...
by Alison Moore Smith | Jul 1, 2007 | Book Club, for Mind, for Spirit
The Divine Center By Stephen R. Covey”For many years,” writes the author, “I have felt and seen the need for an organizing principle in life. That principle must be simple but not simplistic; and it must offer total direction in life.” This...
by Randi Harris | Jun 22, 2007 | for Body, for Spirit
Next week the youth of our ward are leaving for Youth Conference! (Look out Nauvoo!) And I've got a question. How much Diet Coke is acceptable for me (the Young Women president) to drink on the trip? I drink Diet Coke. Lots of it. For weeks now, I have intended to...
by M. Linford | Jun 21, 2007 | for Mind, for Spirit
I have had the opportunity and blessing to associate with many young women at the prime of their lives. They are full of excitement for life, excitement for the future, and love for the gospel. I love talking with these young women about what Elder Hales recently...
by Alison Moore Smith | Jun 18, 2007 | for Spirit
Autumn of 1999 was typically humid. We still had a month or so before hurricane season ended and the weather became bearable. Sacrament Meeting in the Boca Raton Ward found me in the foyer serving my shift in the Smith Family Toddler Reverence Training Rotation. I was...