Over Thanksgiving my siblings and I were reminiscing about the magical holidays we experienced as children. Having such magical holidays as a child brings about its own difficulties, because we have yet to be successful in re-creating them. So we were discussing what made those holidays so magical. I have believed for a long time that part of the magic was in the number of people that we had attend those holidays. The biggest event we had was the Christmas…
I was recently having a conversation where marriage was being discussed. The person I was talking to said that after so many years of marriage they look back and feel that there were likely better partners for each other. This comment was made after this person had explained some of the differences and difficulties in their marriage. The way that this conservation went, I don’t believe this person is on the cusp of divorce, but the message did seem to…
Today’s blog post came together over the course of the day today. In Elder’s Quorum we discussed the conference talk from the October 2019 general conference by L. Todd Budge entitled “Consistent and Resilient Trust”. If you recall that talk it begins with a letter Elder Budge received from his missionary son, who, despite being hospitalized, said that he felt peace and had never been so consistently and resiliently happy. I remember those days. I remember feeling happier than I’d…