A few months ago I was listening to NPR while driving, as I often do, and I heard something that I have been mulling over ever since. It was on All …
Gospel thoughts
Families can be together forever
Last week, my friend Crystal lost her 8 month old son to SIDS. Yesterday (Wednesday) was his funeral. Since she lives in Arizona and I couldn't …
Establishing a house of order
I thought long and hard about what my theme for 2009 should be. I mentioned before that the thought had crossed my mind to choose a scripture, so most …
Blessings: Version 2008
On Tuesday, we received some bad news. It seems the state legislature has given some pretty big budget cuts to all state universities. In this …
The nature of an eternal family
Eternity has always been a concept that is a bit difficult for me to comprehend. I pretty much am okay with the part about there being no ending. …
Blessings: Version 2006
Every year at Christmas time, as I am trying to "balance the budget," I begin to reflect on the many blessings we have received in the past year. It …
The parable of Bria’s glasses
So, Bria had an eye appointment last week and it turns out she really needed glasses. Her eyes are almost as bad as Joel's already, and well...she has …
Blessings
I have a lot of great stories in my life "history" that have to do with the blessings that come from paying tithing. Seriously, it's been true for me …
Cast not away therefore your confidence.
More than ten years ago, when I was 19 years old, I saw a flyer hanging in the HFAC (Harris Fine Arts Center...my home on BYU campus). It was …
Remembering 9-11
Today in Church we talked about self-reliance and food storage and emergency preparedness. It was really good for me, because for the last several …
My piece on Katrina
A couple days after Katrina hit, we had a pretty big Monsoon here. (Actually, it didn't seem overly large to me, but it made national news, and in the …