Thoughts and stories, by Pal

                       Childhood on the farm:      My earliest recollections on the farm I guess was the summer I turned 6 years old.  (This would have been about 1914, and the summer before her father died in October.) We were living in a little log house close to what we called "the wash."  Often there were immense floods that came down this wash, from Casto Canyon about 2 miles to the east.  These swift torrents would cut in at the bottom of the wash, and soon a big section of the land would slide into the flood.  I remember this summer watching my father walk along the side of the lucern patch which was sliding in piece by piece, as if his walking there could stop the disaster.   Each flood left its deposit of sand in one bend, which we joyously played in calling it our "sand patch."  It was the most beautiful white sand I've ever seen.  I wonder if I were to go...

                             MY LIFE HISTORY  BY RUTH ALLEN MILES # 1                                (As she wrote it, partly from journals)  Her own story is quite extensive, with many chapters.  I'll include many of them in the days to come, as her life was truly inspiring, and full of wisdom.      I, Ruth Allen Miles, was born on Sunday morning, on May 10th, 1908, about 8:a.m. in Panguitch, Garfield, Utah, at home.  Strangely enough I was never interested about the details of my birth when anyone was alive who would have known.  The only details I remember having been told was that my mother had a very hard delivery, and nearly lost her life to give me mine.  A Dr. Clark, I believe was the attending physician.   Mother had been told 4 years before that to attempt to have an...

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...