“Some Beginnings”
God said, have your dominion over the creeping things . . . So I captured a grasshopper and named him Luke.
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God said, have your dominion over the creeping things . . . So I captured a grasshopper and named him Luke.
Our language doesn’t encompass or account for foster parenting . . .
“I am ready to grow farther and wider than these brambles. Carry me there.”
Six months to live. That was the diagnosis my dad received on July 2, 2012. He had retired just three days earlier from his job as an elementary school principal. Our whole family was together to celebrate his retirement after forty years of service. Dad was experiencing some back pain that weekend, so he went to get checked out. Unfortunately, they found lung cancer — spread throughout his body and into the bones. Stage 4. We were all in shock. My dad, the man I had looked up to as a hero my entire life, was a little bit broken. […]
I picture Her in my mind / All earthen clay and hair of jungle vine
Sacrament talk given in Springville, Utah in March 2023Read by AuthorWe love to say, in our faith, that God never changes and the gospel never changes. The scriptures back us up. How often have we read that God is the “same yesterday, today, and forever?”1 James was a little more poetic when he wrote that there is “no variableness, neither shadow of turning” in God.2But what’s caught my attention is the fact that even though God doesn’t change, our own perception and understanding of God does change, throughout our whole lives. As we grow and develop, the way we talk […]
What’s left of me is still here on the shore, / breathing. Old waves of cancer sparkle / like gems, stained-glass earth under my feet.
The Exponent II blog recently featured the series “Menopause and Me.” Art by Lauren Walke, an illustrator living amongst the folklore and trees of Appalachia.
My daughter genuinely rejoices that I “get more pellets than she does” and tries to hand me the toy figurine as the prize.
Since we didn’t have any suitable explanation for the injury, the doctors called it a “non-accidental trauma,” indicative of abuse. So they sent the police.
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