I love this quote by President Ezra Taft Benson: The Lord works from the inside out. The world works from the outside in. The world would take people out of the slums. Christ takes the slums out of the people, and then they take themselves out of the slums. The world would mold men by […]
This morning’s plan was cleaning out my closet: Throw away things no longer wanted and organize new stuff. But I knew I was done two seconds after being in there. What occurred to me in the two seconds was how most of my clothes didn’t reflect “me.” (The old clothes will be replaced with new […]
I just bought a ten-week workshop called Jim Rohn’s Foundations for Success where each week is a different topic of videos and audios of Jim Rohn talking about that week’s foundation for success. I bought it for the same reason I read the scriptures over and over again: To keep the ideas at the forefront of my brain; […]
Having MS has directed my attention to me, my home and my family. In July 2008 -when symptoms first started happening to me and before knowing about having MS- I sat in my living room staring at the wall. While sitting there I could feel nothing in my home -no warmth, no happiness, no love; […]
It’s so much more rooted within me when I figure it out and realize it myself. I want them to tell me because I’m impatient-I want to know right now-but when I learn by experience the knowledge is in my heart, and it’s there because I learned it for myself. Sometimes it’s hard and I […]
Goodbye Kansas – Hello Arizona! We’ve lived in Kansas for 25 years so forgive me while I reminisce: We moved to Kansas when I was 23 and and now we’re moving again and I’m 48. Much has happened over 25 years of being in Kansas including having different jobs, raising kids, growing up, serving in many […]
I’m truly in the world but not of the world. Seven years has separated me from what I knew – the world. It’s been so long that I was the old me that I don’t even remember a lot of it. I’m the new me and here to do the Lord’s work. I’m an instrument […]
Before getting sick (MS) I did things so fast and without thinking that I thought changing anything would affect too much (plus, I was too busy to change anything in my life.) Surely I wanted some things in my life to change but I wanted them to change while I stayed the same because I […]
Feeling obsolete A few years ago I felt old in my forties, obsolete, like younger generations didn’t care or listen to their loved ones, and like rules that existed for hundreds of years were disregarded and changing. Today, an article I read gave me hope. It said Millennials (people born 1981-1996) and younger generations don’t […]
“I surround myself with what motivates me, inspires me, reminds me of my goal, and celebrates my accomplishments. I surround myself with people who are what I am. I surround myself with what represents me. I let go of the things that are ‘nots’ and thank them for teaching me.” I think of the above […]
I know how hard trials are, believe me! And I’d rather have the known than the unknown – even when I don’t like parts of the known. But I also know that by courageously and bravely daring to face trials, things are better. Trials are hard, and sometimes they last for what seems like forever, […]