Come Follow Me: Job “Yet Will I Trust in Him”
Reading Hebrew Poetry With Job, we read the first of a series of Biblical books written almost exclusively as poetry. The poet introduces the plot of this epoch poem by imagining a dialogue between...
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The Comforter
A familiar trope of the travelogue testimony is a narrative of a visit to a distant ward or branch, and how that meeting felt wonderful, even if (or especially if) the speaker could not...
A blessing for when things fall apart
I wrote this blessing for a friend earlier this summer, but it is for you if you need it too. It is written along the theme of Alice Walker’s Hard Times Require Furious Dancing....
February Young Women Lesson: How can I find comfort when someone I care about dies?
For this lesson, I think it’s incredibly useful to know what the experiences of the young women in your class have had in relation to death and grieving. Have any of them lost a...
Memories from a Recipe: Chocolate Cake
This past Sunday morning, I got a text from a friend. Her husband had died unexpectedly of a heart attack that morning. He was 48. I offered what I always offer when a death...
Where Can I Turn for Peas and Proscuitto Risotto?
When a friend is going through a hard time and they don’t live near me, my heart aches because the primary way I show love in times of sorrow is bringing food that I...
Relief Society Lesson 6: The Atonement and Resurrection of Jesus Christ
Opening Hymn: Where can I turn for peace? Closing Hymn: I need thee every hour I love this topic and I wish it were broken down into many different lessons to be enjoyed throughout the year....
A Golden Thread
Remember when we were children? Remember how sometimes when we were sad we stopped what we were doing, plunked ourselves down in the dirt or on the grass and just cried? We didn’t have...
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