by M. Linford | Mar 3, 2008 | for Love
I was a wreck last week at church. We had been informed the week before that our ward boundaries were going to drastically change (they weren't kidding—we got the news today!) When the announcement came, I felt a peace. It was that peace that says, “This is good...
by Alison Moore Smith | Mar 1, 2008 | Book Club, for Good
A Mormon in the White House?: 10 Things Every American Should Know about Mitt Romney By Hugh Hewitt According to author and radio personality Hewitt, Mitt Romney—billionaire venture capitalist, consummate family man, gifted and media-savvy politician—would be...
by Alison Moore Smith | Feb 28, 2008 | for Love
When I had my first baby in 1987, I found myself newly graduated from college and newly out of a paying job. I wasn't sure how to keep my brain intact whilst whiling away the hours, topless on the couch, trying to figure out that nursing thing. I tried reading, but...
by Michelle DeGraw | Feb 28, 2008 | for Spirit
Note: This is edited from two posts I wrote on my personal blog in Nov. 2007. At the time, I felt compelled to write about this paradigm shift twice, to remind myself of how amazingly transcendent this epiphany was for me. I share this now because the Spirit prompted...
by Alison Moore Smith | Feb 27, 2008 | for Fun, Yea Big
Caleb (4): Mom, can I have some of your drink? Mom (somewhat older than 4): No. Caleb: Please? Mom: No, honey. Caleb: Puhleeeeeeeez? Mom: No, Caleb. Caleb: But why? Mom: Because I have a cold and it's got my germs on it. Caleb: But mom, you have to share. If you...
by Ray DeGraw | Feb 24, 2008 | for Spirit
It is one thing to discuss the power of the Gospel—to analyze Joseph Smith—History 1:19 (which I will do here eventually) and dissect what it means to “deny the power (of godliness).” It is quite another to discuss the power of the Church. A little...
by Alison Moore Smith | Feb 23, 2008 | for Mind, Homeschool
[Note: Ryan & Teri Schwab, Anna's parents, have said that some of the reports I read before writing this post are erroneous. I have no reason to dispute their statements. Please read the comments to read their full position.] Anna Schwab, a girl from Orcutt,...
by Alison Moore Smith | Feb 22, 2008 | for Spirit
I will be the last person on the earth to claim that my will is identical to the Lord's. I am very often what I'd call a reluctant disciple. When God speaks through his prophets, I have sometimes been angry, annoyed, bugged, disappointed, argumentative, fill in the...
by Tracy Keeney | Feb 20, 2008 | for Spirit
In Moses 5 of the Pearl of Great Price we read that after Adam and Eve were banished from the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve, his wife, called upon the name of the Lord, and they heard the voice of the Lord from the way toward the Garden of Eden… And he gave unto...
by Alison Moore Smith | Feb 17, 2008 | for Love, for Money
Narrator: Life has it's challenges. Actress 1: Every morning I bring my son to school and I rush off to a breakfast meeting. By the time I come home, he's asleep. Narrator: But there's one thing that helps you keep it together. Actor (husband of actress): You have no...
