Tag: God
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Believing in Myself
I’m thinking today about a conversation I had in my twenties. A close friend asked if I believed in myself. I told her that I believed in God. Not satisfied with my answer she repeated the question. She did not think believing in God and believing in myself was mutually exclusive. I think I believe…
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Is the Theo-logical Actually Logical?
I argued about theology on Facebook before I went to church, spent two hours communing with the Saints, then got right back on Facebook to argue some more. I try to be logical about God but frankly I am just not moved by a God of logic. I have for most of my adult life…
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Obedience
Sunday Sermon: I have been thinking about obedience. I will not be obedient to the bishop or church presidents or general authorities or church hand books. I will study the scriptures and the collected wisdom of the Restored Gospel from the past 200 years. I will gain a testimony of what is good and excuse…
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Phone Calls and Paperwork
Less work at Walgreens means more work from home. I spent half an hour or the phone doing a monthly checkup for the boys and agreeing to what needs to be on the paperwork so that I can bill hours for them. All told I’ll be technically working a forty hour week. But only technically.…
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Refocus
Today I am trying to refocus on things of eternal significance and being distracted by my politics and the cat. It’s hard to remember sometimes that the neediest people are actually image bearers of God. And our family has its own needs. It’s very easy for my adult children to become dysregulated when I’m attending…
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My Testimony
I believe in God. I believe His primary characteristics are eternal love and limitless wisdom. I believe that a person’s first duty in life is to love and obey God. I believe each one of us, because of our finite and imperfect nature, must continually seek to know and do His will and draw closer…
Latter Day Sinner 