My failed attempts to hike Mount Timpanogos clarified this lesson for me and how I view the purpose of commandments.
Category: More Holiness Give Me
…my Grandma DeVaux had found me at a time when I felt lost, lonely, and scared. She could not take my hand now, but I felt a deep love and concern from her and what felt like a warm spiritual hug. Her story of rising again influenced my own.
I have a confession: I am a nail-biter. I have bitten my nails for as long as I can remember. My parents tried many tactics to help me break the habit when I was a child. Nothing ever worked…
of choosing my own adventure, I’m choosing my own marriage. I’m choosing how I react when I’m angry or annoyed. I’m choosing to be the wife I told my husband I would be. I am choosing to let my husband be the husband the he told me he’d be.
Have you ever tried to change what you desire, what you crave, what you think about day by day? Desiring marriage seemed well and good but it didn’t change how I actually felt when I was in a relationship with a man.
However we celebrate Christmas, whether it includes Santa or not, there is holiness and the love of God to be found and experienced in Christmas traditions.
My seething only lasted a few minutes, when the still small voice interrupted my inner diatribe with a much-needed gentle nudge.
As I’ve the let the Holy Spirit guide me in sharing painful and hard experiences, I’ve been taught so much truth. I’ve received healing by offering hope and understanding to others and their pain.
When I only view life through the lens of “right now,” it is often perceived as unfair. [But] as we have the promise and hope of all our tears being wiped away, so can the pain and grief that accompanies unfairness be wiped away through redemptive experiences and lessons from God.