Thoughts and stories, by Pal

I haven't written for a few days, mostly concerned for my husband, and helping him with some health problems he has had.  This was in Meridian Magazine on Feb. 17, 2015.  I kept it, and it is good to put here today.  Just 2 days earlier, Feb. 15th, my husband had gone to the hospital in an ambulance at 2:30 a.m.  Since then he has been in the hospital 3 times for 4 days each, two of which times he was in intensive care a day or two, once with a breathing tube down his throat, just to keep him breathing!  He has been in a local rehabilitation place for 16 days after one hospital stay, 2 days another time, 7 days another time, and now is back in the hospital the 4th time since Feb. 15th -- this time sent there by our kidney doctor -- the best in this area.  He had surgery this afternoon to have a pic line put in, and tomorrow he will start kidney dialysis.        Yes, it has been quite a ride, with several Priesthood blessings, and my...

This is a very heart wrenching story, which was helped only by remembering the Atonement of Jesus Christ -- and it can help each one of us!  Today, April 5, 2015, is Easter, and the day we celebrate the Resurrection of our Savior, Jesus Christ. We also have really been inspired by General Conference yesterday and today.  This story is a bit long, but very touching and interesting. LINE UPON LINE Can the Atonement Swallow my Deepest Pain and Loss? By  Scot Facer Proctor  · April 2, 2015 I am the baby in my family. I grew up with three older brothers, but one brother, Kirk, is closest to me in age, and we were always best friends. We traveled everywhere together. We lived in South Pass City, Wyoming—a Ghost Town—for a summer together doing geology with my amazing geologist father and my pioneer mother. We traveled overseas and lived in Turkey together. We were there to pick up my oldest brother off his mission in Norway. We made messes ...

Wasn't General Conference wonderful today, Saturday, April 4, 2015!   One Phrase Church Leaders Never Say Anymore + Why JANNALEE ROSNER - March 25, 2015 from LDS Living There are plenty of phrases that Latter-day Saints have heard repeated over and over again like scripture, though in reality they are only  based on scripture . “Free agency” is one of them. Most of us are probably familiar with the term "free agency" from Sunday School classes or children trying to assert their independence. But is agency really free? There are several scriptures that may have influenced Latter-day Saints to start adding the word  free  onto  agency.   2 Nephi 2:27 ;  10:23 ,  D&C  58:27 , and  Helaman 14:30  all mention some variation of each of us being free to choose or act for ourselves. However,  D&C 101:78  describes this principle in a different way that has recently become more widely used by Church le...

Today I am re-posting # 123, and #238 which are about preparing spiritually for General Conference.  I t was originally posted on April 3, 2014. -------------------------------------------------------- Posted originally: 03 Apr 2014 06:11 AM PDT -- the following: This morning I read a blog I follow called "The Small Seed", and it has great ideas for preparing for our General Conference. General Conference: Take 2     (Her title)       (I feel like this means we should take time out of our busy schedules to refill our "spiritual cups".  I plan to watch all of it, including -- as a woman -- the Priesthood Conference here at home. -- Pal's comment!)                  What a blessing to look forward to in the next few days ! ! ! Over the past few weeks I've heard from some of you regarding a post I wrote about my church's semi-annual General Conference. Well believe it or not, 6...

From LDS Living, very interesting little-known facts about the  Prophet Joseph Smith. 15 Fascinating Facts About Joseph Smith ADAPTED FROM WAYNE J LEWIS, JANA LEE COX & LEE NELSON IN  500 LITTLE-KNOWN FACTS ABOUT JOSEPH SMITH  - Did you know Joseph Smith's famous leg surgery was the fourth in a series of surgeries? Here's a list of 15 other interesting facts about Joseph Smith. 1. Joseph Smith’s famous leg surgery was actually the fourth in a series of surgeries. The first surgery doctors had to lance his shoulder to drain it of infected material, the second and third times they tried to drain his leg, and the fourth time they removed the bone. 2. Emma wouldn’t let Joseph into the garden because people would gather just to be around him and would trample the plants. 3. The Prophet once taught that “complainers cannot be exalted.” 4. During the translation of the Book of Mormon, Joseph and Oliver Cowdery translated about...