According to the Websters Dictionary, a miracle is defined as an extraordinary event manifesting divine intervention in human affairs, or an extremely outstanding or unusual event, thing, or accomplishment. There are BIG miracles, when we can see the divine intervention of God in more of an obvious in your face circumstance, but can we have…
My husband and I lived at the University of Utah in the married student housing in the early 1980s. We had two little children. My husband was a student at the law school, and therefore he was gone almost the entire day every day. So that pretty much left me home alone with the children….
I had been disappointed by answers from the Lord before but this felt the most confusing. In 2013, I’m at BYU. This was my first senior year. So I turned 21 the year before. And I’d always intended on serving a mission if I was still single, and I was, and that had been a…
I’ll never forget an experience I had several years ago, I was speaking at a huge event that thousands of women were attending. For the event, I had purchased a red dress that had a black satin sash around the waist. And that morning, as I was preparing for my turn to go on stage,…
It was 7:30 and the convention had finished. The girls were going to stay back and play games with friends and my neice was good enough to set the car maps up for me to get back to the hotel. I knew my phone battery was very low but she thought there was plenty of…
By now, you all know I love to play softball. The idea of getting together with friends and winning or losing a game gets me excited. these teammates are like family when we play. I can almost hear the cheering and feel the high five as I walk into the dugout. I am the mom…
Yesterday I wandered outside before it was too hot and sat in my swing chair. Usually I’ve got an earbud in my ear listening to something or talking to someone on the phone, constantly adding noise pollution to my thoughts. I took my earbud out and listened all around me. It was quiet. No sound…
While sitting in a medical clinic waiting room, I noticed a mother with her daughter. The child wore a face mask and coughed many times. Her eyes were sunken, and her face was pale. I couldn’t help but feel sorry for her. Her mother looked worn-out. The waiting room was small, so I heard everything…
When our oldest daughter, Wendi, was five, she attended morning kindergarten class. One day I sent her to school, then readied our two younger children to go shopping. I felt rushed because it usually took over two hours to do my grocery shopping, and I wanted to be done in time to pick up Wendi…