Conquer Your Mountains
A 9-year-old girl suffering from a tumor (the size of two golf balls) in her head is getting love and support through a Facebook movement of mustaches! A few weeks ago, Chad and Shelly Morris noticed that their 9-year-old daughter, Maddie, wasn’t using her left arm very much. Their doctor told them to take Maddie…
Today I simply wish to ask you a question and discuss its answer: If you have never lost yourself, how can you ever find yourself? At various times in our lives we have all lost our way, suddenly realizing that we were miles from where should be. The question in that moment of realization is not…
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!! Oh wait …. Tomorrow is March 1st; three months into 2013. But it still is a New Year! How are those resolutions coming along? Do you even remember them? Have you held strong and kept those resolutions? Sit back and think about where you stand with those changes you wanted to make…
It’s 2 a.m. and little Sally runs to her parents’ room exclaiming that there is a monster under her bed. “Momma! Papa! There is a monster under my bed!” Grunting, her father shuffles down the hallway toward her room. Sally follows close behind, holding tightly to the back of his shirt. He reaches for…
“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.” Those inspiring words come from one of my biggest heroes,…
It’s the height of orange season here in Arizona. Wherever you are, I hope that you’ve been the beneficiary of one of these beauties. Because, let’s face it, there is no pleasure quite like partaking of a perfect orange. The moment you peel it, when that sweet mist hits the air, you know it. …
I was huddled in a corner of the SDSU track field (above a parking garage) in torrential rain and strong gusts of wind, trying to figure out when my sister was going to be doing the Triple Jump for Utah Valley University (UVU). I was on the phone w/ my mom, who was across the…
Sometimes, there are obvious distinctions between the right and wrong choices we’re faced with in life. Running a stop sign because you’re feeling careless is a bad choice. Returning the purse an elderly woman left in her shopping cart at the grocery store is a good choice. Continuing to date someone because you just don’t…
Live From The Indwelling Light There is something intrinsically wrong with me… I am a bad person… All I ever do is hurt people or let them down… I can’t do anything right… I’m a failure… I don’t deserve beauty, love or happiness… My suffering is punishment for my iniquity. ~* ~* ~ “It…