by Alison Moore Smith | Apr 27, 2014 | Simple Family Home Evening Ideas
The day after BYU finals ended, our entire family sat down for a family counsel. We try to have one every Sunday afternoon, but this extra meeting was called to get us jump started on a good summer. One of the things we discussed was the desire to have good habits...
by Alison Moore Smith | Apr 23, 2014 | Videos of Jesus Christ
A common jab at the person who complains about something relatively trivial in the eternal scheme of things — bad service at a restaurant, annoying people at the theater, a car nice car with a flat tire, a slow internet connection — is to tag their complaint...
by Alison Moore Smith | Apr 20, 2014 | Simple Family Home Evening Ideas
My early adulthood made it easy believe that God was a magical genie. If IÂ prayed hard enough and worked hard enough and had just the right amount of faith mixed in, IÂ could do anything or have anything. (Except the ever elusive pony. That never happened.)...
by Alison Moore Smith | Apr 16, 2014 | Videos of Jesus Christ
When Jessica was a brand new baby in 1987 I made a solemn commitment to myself. I would live each day carefully and mindfully so I could be a mother with no regrets. In 1991, when she was almost four (and had a baby sister, Belinda) I lost my temper when she broke a...
by Alison Moore Smith | Apr 13, 2014 | Simple Family Home Evening Ideas
You may have lived through the awful, error-filled object lessons that I did in Sunday School or seminary. Here are some examples of what not to do to teach children or anyone about sin and repentance: A teacher picked up a slab of wood. He drove four or five nails...
by Alison Moore Smith | Apr 9, 2014 | Videos of Jesus Christ
This isn't a video about Jesus Christ. It's actually a life insurance commercial. Yea, I know, right? But it really is one of the best videos of Jesus Christ ever, without intending to be. Because the least of these is always him. About a decade ago I read a life...
