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This was a beautiful entry by Brian Mickelson yesterday, on April 22, 2014.   I really enjoy his thoughts and insights, and I hope you do also!  Today I'm a bit under the weather, so this article will be my entry.  Thanks to all who are patient with me.  A few years ago I had 2 bouts with pancreatitis and at times I have problems that resemble it, so I am working on finding out what is a good natural solution. I am not sure what I did to have the writing in this blog come up all capital letters ?  If anyone out there knows, please comment or e mail me at :   paralee.eckman@gmail.com and help me correct it!   I know we all have our challenges in life, with our health, our families, and many more -- it varies with each person and family.  The beautiful article below talks of how Heavenly Father understands all of the challenges we have, and knows each of us by name!   He also knows if the adversity we are having is to tutor us and te...

6 Childlike Traits that You've Probably Lost (And How to Get Them Back) BRAD WILCOX - 9 HOURS AGO Prophets in the scriptures tell us to be more child-like all the time. Somewhere along the way we must have lost those traits. Straight from Brad Wilcox's new book,  The 7-day Christian , find out how to get them back. I have spent much of my life working with children and those who teach and care for them. I have noticed children quite naturally possess attributes that we sometimes end up missing in our adult lives: an inner desire to do right, a sense of worth, the ability to be happy, a capacity to love, an innate sense of wisdom, and a deep and trusting faith. It is as if children are carrying full buckets of water, and then they stagger into their teenage years and the water starts sloshing out. Then they face the blows of adulthood, and even more water escapes. Soon people are standing around with empty buckets. This emptiness is not because the buckets were neve...

 THIS IS THE FINAL ENTRY OF SAMUEL MILES' JOURNAL.  THIS LAST ENTRY IS RATHER LONG, AND YOU CAN TAKE YOUR TIME READING IT.  THERE IS A LOT OF HISTORY OF EARLY ST. GEORGE, WHICH HE WAS A PART OF. 1862 - After closing my school in March, I resumed my farming and cultivated two city lots.  On the 7th of May was born my fifth son called John Talmar.  I acted as teacher in the ward and assisted Bishop Hill in settling tithing.  Three hundred teams were sent to the frontiers to assist the poor saints to the valley.  (These were saints on the plains who needed help to get to Utah).      On Sunday the 19th of October, 1862,  my name with 150 others was called to go with our families to go strengthen the cotton growing country in the southern part of the Territory. (Dixie -- now St. George) I immediately began to make preparations to go with my family.   I sold my hay and pasture lots near the city.  I made a good fit out wag...

    This is the 3rd entry from Samuel Miles' journal.  Entries # 128 and 130 tell of his early life, and his time in the Mormon Battalion.  Blog # 131 is a brief history of his life, written by his granddaughter, my aunt Sarah. This begins after he returned home from California, after working a year at Sutter's Fort after being in the Mormon Battalion.   We arrived at the fort in the Salt lake Valley on the 10th of September 1848.  The families who followed the pioneers were living in a fort built of logs and adobes.  I found my brother Ira and wife here he having come with the company who followed the pioneers and had returned with some of the Battalion men going to the frontiers.  I made my home with them and we bought a log house in the fort where we lived through the winter.  I sent one hundred dollars to assist my folks to the valley.  I learned of the death of my father who died December 22nd 1847 in St. Louis Missouri o...