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I struggled for several days about how to write this column. In the comments of my column nearly every week, someone will ask “how can we better help the singles?” Today, I'd like to take the chance to point out where we are failed, and how everyone could do better. It is a topic I have wanted to write about, but have worried about writing for fear of offending others with my brute honesty (although I do try and be bluntly honest in each column I do write).
Last Sunday, due to circumstances beyond my control, I ended up leading the singing at our stake conference. And one of the songs we sang was “I Am a Child of God.”
To show a little gratitude for the world in which we live, I put this up on Facebook:
Especially with the haunting of Valentine’s Day, the ability to recognize and address (not solve) isolation, can be difficult. So what can we do?
About a month ago, I checked in on the influx of sister missionaries and spotlighted blogs that described the process from decision to return. This sparked a reader, Julianne Hatton, to drop me a note: “My daughter is also serving a mission. What makes her story interesting is that she is divorced.” Now I don’t have numbers, but would imagine this scenario to be somewhat unique and so dug a little deeper into Hermana Grace Hatton’s story and on a preparation day she wrote me her story.
Ben Hansen once climbed into a cage, then stared great white sharks in the eye as the cage was lowered into the water. "I thought that if I could do that . . . I could do anything in life," Hansen later said. That experience, daring though it may have been, wasn't the scariest thing he has ever had to do. It took him four more years to get up the courage to make the ultimate committment—buying an engagement ring.
A comment in Relief Society is helping me comprehend the difference between feeling guilty and feeling contrite—and helping me live with more joy.
I'm a dad of five kids and now a grandfather to ten. I had been feeling like my family's routine with FHE needed more excitement and interaction from everyone involved. Were all of these years of teaching going in one ear and out the other—or were the lessons and stories taking root? I decided to create an interactive board game with questions on the computer to test and teach concepts of the gospel to my family in a new and exciting way. The interest and participation each week in FHE have totally changed for my family and I want to share this with your family too.