First Person: Bad Things Happen to Good People

Posted on June 12, 2008. Filed under: Conversion Stories, First Person, Sharing Our Voices | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

I know this is the true Church of our Savior Jesus Christ and that we are led by a living prophet, Thomas S. Monson.
My story:
My life challenges started at a very early age. I was eight years old when I was first molested. He was a friend of the family and I had a child’s [...]

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First Person: The Little Details

Posted on June 11, 2008. Filed under: First Person, Sharing Our Voices | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Have we not been reassured about the fall of one sparrow and that the very hairs of our heads are numbered? (see Matt. 10:29–30; D&C 84:80). God is in the details! (Neal A. Maxwell, “Encircled in the Arms of His Love,” Ensign, Nov. 2002, 16)
During a routine obstetric ultrasound I was told that I [...]

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First Person: “Fear not, I am with thee”

Posted on June 7, 2008. Filed under: First Person, Music Links, Sharing Our Voices | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

It seems to me that in the times of my greatest need or frustration I feel like the words I pray to my Heavenly Father are falling from my lips and onto the floor. I know in my heart that I am not really alone during the winter seasons in my life, but it can [...]

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First Person” “Lord, help me take this next step”

Posted on May 28, 2008. Filed under: First Person, Sharing Our Voices | Tags: , , , , , , , |

I’m not sure what I was afraid of, but I know that the fear was deep, animal, and visceral. Even my husband shared it. For all that he loves to jump out of airplanes for fun, that 28-foot ladder up against the side of the house bested him as well as it did me. The [...]

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