Happy Thanksgivukkah! The holiday season is upon us. For those in the U.S., today is Thanksgiving. For our Jewish brothers and sisters, it’s the beginning of Hanukkah. For many Christians, tomorrow the Christmas...
Read MoreWings By Charity Jeffs (read more about Charity here) I nudge my fledgling from the nest He eagerly takes flight. Off on his own Spreading his wings The freedom feels so right. Not just for him But also me does freedom...
Read More~by Sue A Perfect Brightness of Hope How bright the sky, how still the night when all the world received His light. One star stood out from all the rest, while choirs of angels sang and blessed a lowly stable, bleak and...
Read MoreToday is a day of Easter links. Please feel free to share, in the comments section, any Easter content you have from your blog, or a link to something that you have found inspirational this week. (p.s. We’ll not be using...
Read MoreThanks to Erika for sharing this poem (you can find it also on her blog, Musings of a Mother in Zion — the painting you see on her blog is one she created around the same time.) She writes this about what motivated her to...
Read More~by Marsha This poem was written at what was a difficult time, four months before my first husband left after 22 years of marriage. The holidays were difficult for several years until I regained my focus and realized that the...
Read More~by Sue Ever since I can remember, I’ve been writing poems. It appears to be a family trait, actually; my mother taught me as a child, and I haven’t looked back. I am frequently asked to write poetry for various programs or...
Read More[Editor’s Note: Tomorrow is Patriot Day in the United States, a somber day of remembrance of the lives lost in terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. We felt it appropriate to share this poem written by a Mormon woman...
Read MoreWomen, as well as men, can serve full time missions for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, or Mormon Church. While young men typically serve from the ages of 19-21, young women are eligible to serve beginning at...
Read MoreThe following poem was written by a mother who was reflecting on her son’s Eagle Court of Honor. In the United States, Latter-Day Saint (or Mormon) boys ages 8-18 participate in the Boy Scouts of America program as part of...
Read MoreDianne Billstrom, a devoted mother and grandmother (as well as a recently published children’s author), sent us this poem with the following introduction: This poem was written as an exercise in self-examination —...
Read MoreToday we share a short poem written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (March 6, 1806 – June 29, 1861), a prominent poet from the Victorian era: OUT IN THE FIELDS WITH GOD The little cares that fretted me, I lost them yesterday Among...
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