Thoughts and stories, by Pal

 I have not felt good for 2 or 3 weeks.  I went to the Emergency Room 2 times last week, -- the first one for getting high blood pressure, and the 2nd one for a UTI.  I want to post another blog which I wrote 5 years ago today!  A lot of pictures of when we were on 2 different missions -- the first was Sweden in 1994-1995, and the second was in Connecticut, in 1999-2000.  We spent Y2K there, and wondered if all computers would shut down at the close of the century!   1311. Five years ago today my Eternal Companion passed away, Feb. 21, 2016. February 21, 2021 Today is a day to remember, and honor, as it is 5 years today that my dear eternal companion, Wayne D Eckman, passed away peacefully in the early hours of the morning, without pain! He had been through open heart surgery, hip surgery, 10 months of dialysis, and radiation for esophageal cancer. His last 3 weeks were completely from a feeding tube, and oh how he loved to eat! Pictures are fr...

  s by Pal I'm posting a blot I wrote one month to the day after my dear husband died.606. Beautiful scripture, and quote about the Spirit World, where my beloved Wayne is now! and photos! March 16, 2016 For any of you who have lost loved ones, a spouse, a sibling, or a child, this quoted below is most comforting information.   Wayne's funeral was 2 weeks and 2 days ago.  For the first few days, several of my children, and friends, would call to see how I am.  I know they still care, but their lives are busy, and they have gone back to life as it was before mostly.  And in this life I will never be able to go back to life as it was.  As I told one of our daughters, in any couple, one of you has to pass away first.  So true!  How many billions of people have gone through this very experience!  And yet when it is yourself, it becomes so personal.  Even though it seems strange to say it, I am grateful he was the first to go. (for his s...

  The Impact of Quiet Miracles By  Christian Decker  · February 2, 2023 Cover image:   Jesus at the Wedding Feast   via Gospel Media Library. When I was a child, many of my favorite scripture stories involved dramatic miracles like those that Moses performed, stories that would excite my imagination and fill me with wonder. Whether it was the parting of the Red Sea, 1  feeding of the 5,000, 2  the fiery furnace of Nebuchadnezzar, 3  or the protection granted to the stripling warriors, 4  I knew from a young age that nothing was impossible with the Lord’s aid. I saw myself as inheriting the miracles of Adam, Moses, Elijah, Peter, John, Joseph, Wilford, and all the other Saints throughout time. And then I got a little older. I began to find myself drowning in the endless deluge of destruction and mires of misery that make up most of our news. Intolerance, starvation, tragedy, and sin played out on the world stage with all of us as an audie...

The Character of God By  Larry Barkdull  · February 7, 2023 Before he died, Larry Barkdull had written a substantial part of an unfinished manuscript  about the extraordinary power of faith,  particularly as a power that causes things to happen. This is faith on a higher level than we usually practice and understand it. With the permission of his wife, Buffie, Meridian will be running an excerpt from this new book every week. See earlier articles in this series  HERE  and  HERE  and  HERE .  Ultimately, our faith in God the Father is strengthened or injured by our level of belief and confidence in his perfections, attributes, characteristics and powers. Attributes of God the Father The Father is an eternal being.  God cannot be a temporary god. Could we imagine our future to be secure with a god who could die? “He was God before the world was created, and the same God that he was after it was created.” [1]  The Psalmist said, “...