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Letting Faith Guide Your Choices Without Surrendering Your Agency
This week, I’m thinking about a phrase we’ve all heard: “Jesus, take the wheel.” Does it mean giving up my agency and letting God make every decision for me? Or could it mean something deeper about how I choose, pray, and follow Jesus Christ?
Beyond the Size of Faith
This week, I’m thinking about faith, hope, and charity, and how each one strengthens the others. When Jesus spoke about faith as a grain of mustard seed, was He pointing to its small size, or to something more persistent? I’m asking whether the...
A Personal Connection to General Conference
This week, I’m sharing two unexpected takeaways from the recent General Conference. As someone who does sign language interpreting, I found myself paying close attention not only to the messages, but also to the choices interpreters made in exp...
The Tuition for Getting Good Is Being Bad First
This week, I share an unexpected lesson from a 45-minute watercolor class on our cruise. I hadn’t picked up watercolors since elementary school, and as the colors refused to blend perfectly, I was tempted to decide the whole thing was “stupid” ...
What If the Disappointment Is Exactly Perfect?
This week, I take you to Glacier Bay, where a change in plans, a different glacier, and overcast skies left me feeling disappointed. But as I looked at Margerie Glacier through a new lens, I started to wonder: what if the experience I didn’t pl...