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 …