Write at the Heart

I’ve always been awful at thinking on my feet. Ask me a difficult question or get in a debate with me and I’ll be like “Uhhh,” but if you give me time to write it down, I could give you a decent answer. I wish I were better at finding words in the moment! When Samuel was cast out of the city, the Lord told him to go back, “and prophesy unto the people whatsoever things should come into his heart.” So he climbed the WALL and “cried with a loud voice, and prophesied unto the people whatsoever things the Lord put into his heart... “Behold, I, Samuel, a Lamanite, do speak the words of the Lord which he doth put into my heart” What obedience! What trust! What courage! He knew the Lord would put words in his heart. He just had to speak them. “Open your mouths and they shall be filled” D&C 33 Sis. Eubanks once talked about using “your voice and your power to articulate what you know and feel.” It resonated with me a LOT. So did Pres. Nelson’s words, “As a righteous, endowed Latter-day Sai...

  I keep thinking about Samuel’s many words about treasure and the curse of the land in Helaman 13. “Whoso shall hide up treasures in the earth shall find them again no more, because of the great curse of the land, save he be a righteous man and shall hide it up unto the Lord.” “Ye are cursed because of your riches, and also are your riches cursed because ye have set your hearts upon them” “He curseth your riches, that they become slippery, that ye cannot hold them” “We have hid up our treasures and they have slipped away from us, because of the curse of the land” “The land is cursed, and all things are become slippery, and we cannot hold them” What is he talking about? What are these treasures people are hiding? How is the land cursed? What does it mean to hide your treasure unto the Lord? Is this literal or spiritual? Both? I can’t say for sure! But it’s interesting in the next chapter when Samuel prophesies about Christ’s death, he explains what will happen to the earth. And you...

I used to be in a biker gang. Yep. Only with less leather and more spandex. Less jackets with skulls and more jerseys with handy back pockets. And chains! Oh, not THOSE kinda chains. Okay, it was more of a group of women cyclists. But biker gang sounds better. Those were good times. We’d train as soon as the weather was warm enough, and one of the best parts of riding was the scenery we’d see along the way. It never got old! Every time we saw something cool we’d shout “NATURE!” bringing it to everyone’s attention in a split second, and together we’d marvel at animals like we were in a National Geographic magazine. It’s fun to share things that make you happy. My daughter got phase 1 braces and a palate expander at age 7 last year for a BAD cross bite. It’s a lot of metal for a little girl! She had the HARDEST time adjusting! While she eventually learned how to eat again, it hasn’t been too fun. Well, we just found out she gets her braces off TOMORROW! You know what she did? She ran aro...