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The Importance of Summer Days
Ah, summer, I just love summer! For me, just the word SUMMER makes me smile. It brings to mind images of sunshine, sundresses, laughter, celebration, swinging on porches while crickets chirp nearby and epic family adventures. How about you? I suppose if every day were as carefree as a summer day, summer wouldn’t be as special as it is — but every day is not like a carefree summer day — and that is why summer has a special place in my heart. When I talk about Heaven with my kids, it is the days of summer that most quickly come to mind. When I envision the place that God…
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To Be a Woman is a GIFT
To be a woman is a GIFT, and I just wish every woman would realize just how much of a gift it is. I wish I could convince her that her femininity and her unique feminine genius should be cherished and embraced and shared with others. There are some forces in the world that seem to be intent upon hiding the glory that it is to be a woman — who try to keep women from truly embracing what makes them different from men and instead tries to force us into some warped idea of what it means to be a woman. They stand to benefit from manipulating women into…
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Remedies for Sorrow and what the Saints Had to Say About It.
On this side of Heaven, we are going to have sadness and sorrow — it’s inevitable — but the Church and the Saints that have gone before us have much to say about sorrow and a gloomy disposition. I figured since half the world has gone a little cray-cray, maybe it’s a good time to share some simple thoughts for keeping the “gloom” at bay. As somebody who is naturally a bit on the melancholic side of the temperaments, I have benefited from approaching those tendencies with a consistent prayer life and by gaining practical wisdom from the great minds that we are blessed to have in the Church. We…
