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People still look at me funny when I say I choose not to eat meat.; that I do eat an occasional egg and have even had a little yogurt or cheese here and there.  However, as a whole, I just stay away from animal products… and I feel better.  My skin, hair and nails look better.  Although my back is a little sore from all the heavy work I’ve been doing, my joints and muscles are doing well with the work load I am throwing at them.  I can even get off the floor now, something I couldn’t do in the past, when I need to work down low.  I attribute this energy I feel, and all of my improved health to my plant powered lifestyle.

Last week was a busy week.  I don’t know why I always report that because busy is a norm for me.  It was busy…

This past week I answered a question for my missionary daughter about the living a higher law.

I gave it a ton of thought before I answered her.  I decided that living the higher law comes down to the two great commandments… Loving God and Loving your neighbor.  We are living the higher law when make these two commandments our standard to live by.

Living by the Spirit is a part of living the higher law.  If we put traditions and rules above seeking personal revelation, we may be missing the point of the higher law.  Sometimes people get hung up on “what is mentioned as a sin.”  It is simple.  Anything that separate us from God is a sin, whether it is mentioned in a conference talk as a commandment, a scripture, a pamphlet or some policy manual.  If doing the action leads us away from God, away from the…

A series of seemingly small but incorrect choices can become those little soul-destroying termites that eat away at the foundations of our testimony until, before we are aware, we may be brought near to spiritual and moral destruction.  In the similar way, small acts of kindness, the tiny deeds of Christian service, the silent but significant efforts to control our thoughts and feelings – these are the simple things that build character and shape human destiny everlastingly.

Is our journey sometimes impeded when we forget the importance of small and simple things?  We need to have family and personal prayers; study the scriptures, particularly the Book of Mormon; hold family home evenings; follow the admonition of the Savior to love one another, and be thoughtful, kind, and gentle with family.  Through these and other similar small and simple things, we have the promise that our lives will be filled with…

When my children were little… and fussy… and worried… and anxious… I’d hum a little tune that always made them feel better.

As small children their sweet little souls knew it and believed it with great fervor!

“Lead me, guide me, walk beside me…”

“I am a child of God” is the first religious lesson I teach my children.  I teach them that He know them.  He loves them.  He wants what’s best for them.  He wants them to be happy.

I’ve been more aware of an alarming trend in children and teens around me.  They have forgotten the simple truths of this sweet tune.

What is it about mortality that makes us sometimes forget who we are?  Why do we tend to place our worth upon material things, instead of living like children of God?  Why do we buy the lie that we are not worth it.

So many…

The event began yesterday morning with an ever-so-slight shift of light… a bit of darkness.  Through my solar eclipse glasses, it appeared as if someone nibbled a small bite out of the sun. Slowly – yet not slowly – the shadow crept its way across the sun’s surface.

As these celestial bodies began to align in the mid-day sky, the terrestrial-bound body of my husband, John, scurried in a mad last -minute scramble for the best vantage point, the perfect camera position, a view of what his chickens were doing or that his party guests were truly looking at the wonder manifest in the heavens.  Our guest worried that he would miss this event that, clearly, he had been waiting for with great anticipation since the 6th grade.

The light grew dimmer – almost grey – as the moon made its march across the sun.  As a theatre lighting designer…