Aug
31
Family Night Light–Parable of the Pickle
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Thanks to Elder Bednar for providing such a great metaphor to use to teach our children about true conversion! We happen to be growing cucumbers in our garden, so we picked a bunch of little ones to use for this lesson.
“The Lord will customize the curriculum for us in order to teach us the things we most need to know. He will set before us in life what we need, not always what we like. What therefore may seem now to be mere unconnected pieces of tile will someday, when we look back, […]
Aug
9
We are more the same than we are different.
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There’s a wonderful song on the “Women of Destiny” vol. 2 CD that I thought of today. It talks about different women in a community and how in the end, though we seem so different on the outside, “we have more in common than we ever choose to see, we care about so many […]
It has been a demanding couple of weeks, and when Monday night rolled around I just didn’t have it in me to finish preparing the lesson Todd and I had talked about doing. Todd gathered the children and together they planned a skit about Ammon the missionary while I rested upstairs (truth be told, Mommy […]
D&C 123: 17
“Therefore, dearly beloved brethren, let us cheerfully do all things that lie in our power; and then may we stand still, with the utmost assurance, to see the salvation of God, and for his arm to be revealed.”
Aug
8
Quote of the Week–Power
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“There can be power in acceptance as well as in control.”
-Michael J. Mahoney