A decorative blue plate with salmon, roasted butternut squash and salad

Hungry

When I commune with God, I remember that fasting is not hungering from something so much as it is hungering for something.

Pink daisy

Ye Cannot Go Amiss

Sometimes I feel the good pleasure of our heavenly parents, but too often I agonize over the many things I’m NOT doing. Are my efforts good enough for the Lord?

Choosing Joy

“[M]en are, that they might have joy.” (2 Nephi 2:25) Some people are born with a vision. They are called, by God or by privilege, to do specific things. I

Girl watching sunset from the top of a hill

Wonderful, Counsellor

“[A]nd his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, the mighty God, the everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace” (Isaiah 9:6). It’s Christmas time, and Isaiah’s words are playing on the radio.

Asian elephant lifting its trunk toward the camera

Elephant in the Dark

 “He remembereth every creature of his creating, he will make himself manifest unto all” –Mosiah 27:30 In 2013, I visited a local Baptist church. It was my first time visiting