One of the biggest frustrations of my aftercare is all the medication I have to take. I now have one of those pill containers marked with the days of the week to help me keep the whole thing sorted out, the kind of thing peoples’ grandparents use. Imagine that! The prescriptions that seem to make ... Read More
Heart-deep Recovery Lesson 2: Who’s to Blame? (Part Three of Four)
“You’d be surprised how many people have heart attacks with a snow shovel in their hands,” I heard over and over from the hospital personnel. “That’s it!” I thought. “Let’s blame the sledge hammer and the pickax.” It’s the most “natural man” thing in the world to search for something or someone to ... Read More
Heart-deep Recovery Lesson 1: Who Me? No Way! (Part Two of Four)
“But I have such a healthy life style today!” I announced to the cardiologist as I lay in bed breathing from an oxygen tube. “I exercise and eat right! I’ll have you know I’ve lost 97 lbs!” “Past sins and heredity,” he responded with a grim smile. Years ago I remember sitting in a hospital waiting ... Read More
Heart-deep Recovery (Part One of Four)
One January 25th of 2010 it somehow got to be afternoon and I hadn’t exercised yet. After lunch I started contemplating, “Just how am I going to go about getting just enough exercise to appease my conscience today?” I got a little creative. My husband had left to run some errands. Out in the street ... Read More
“Is This the Finale?” – Step 3 Trust in God
Sometimes we talk about our need for the Lord to be a little more direct in His communication with us. We joke about hoping to receive a phone call or an email or a visitation or something big indicating His word directly and personally. When I’m in great need I often ask the Lord to please speak ... Read More
“Help” – Step 11 and Prayer
At my coxing Esther wiggled out of her mother’s arms and crawled over her daddy’s legs onto my lap. She soon recognized that her Grandma was ill prepared with the standard equipment traditionally used for entertaining toddlers during Sacrament Meeting, ie. Cheerios, Sippy Cup, board books etc. I ... Read More
“Now and Later” – Service
My mother taught second grade while I was raising my children. Every year she would make very clever homemade Valentines for the children in her class and extras for her grandchildren. A home school Valentine’s Day is never quite as grand as the public school production and my kids were always ... Read More
Phone Mail Treasure, More Than Please and Thank You – Prayer
My mother recorded a prayer I said independent of her prompting when I was two and a half. These were my words, “We thank Thee for this nice family night and for the gospel and for the Holy Spirit with us and for the good in our hearts, the smiles in our hearts, and that I’ll get better, and for my ... Read More
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