Thoughts and stories, by Pal

My beautiful mother, Ruth Allen Miles embodied all these virtues mentioned below!  You can see it in her face! June 3, 2017 Example of Jesus SCRIPTURE OF THE DAY 2 Nephi 31:16 "And now, my beloved brethren, I know by this that unless a man shall endure to the end, in following the example of the Son of the living God, he cannot be saved. " QUOTE OF THE DAY Ezra Taft Benson "No other single influence has had so great an impact on this earth as the life of Jesus the Christ. We cannot conceive of our lives without His teachings. Without Him we would be lost in a mirage of beliefs and worships born in fear and darkness where the sensual and materialistic hold sway. We are far short of the goal He set for us, but we must never lose sight of it, nor must we forget that our great climb toward the light, toward perfection, would not be possible except for His teaching, His life, His death, and His resurrection" ...

I have mentioned before the huge favor Larry Barkdull did for me, in 1989, when he published 3 simplified piano books for me -- a Simplified Hymn Book, Simplified Primary Songs, and Simplified Songs for LDS Women.  I was unknown, -- I still am! -- and he published them in the music publishing company he then owned -- Sonos Music.  They are now out of print.  Many of them can still be found at www.musichousepublications.com  -- if you check out the part on the right:   (Copy and paste these URL addresses on the internet)  In Musichousepublications: Free Sheet Music Free Classics Free Simplified Holiday/Seasonal Songs Also:  http://www.musichouseofworship.com/free-sheet-music.html      ----  Check out free hymn arrangements! If you want simplified arrangements for many LDS hymns and Primary songs, you can print them out free there.  Many of them I arranged.  I used to teach piano lessons, and I made these ...

This article is for me more than anyone!  When Wayne and I wrote our life stories in 2005, for our Golden Anniversary, I stopped writing a journal!  It was as if most of my life experiences had already happened.  I really wish I had kept it up, as since then so many important things have happened.  I often think back on these years and wonder exactly when some experience happened.  I would know if I had kept up a journal.  That is why I am starting TODAY! to write experiences and thoughts, and record spiritual experiences.  I have done so in some of these blogs, but now -- to start a JOURNAL! Why Writing in Your Journal Is Key to Increasing Personal Revelation by Larry Tippetts  | May 25, 2017 Makes You Think Every Latter-day Saint absolutely needs daily personal revelation to stay steadfast on the path of discipleship. Our spiritual survival depends on it. Personal revelation need not be dramatic ...

Dear family and friends!  These are great thoughts to lighten up your day!  I am heading to California to visit my son McKay for the Memorial Day Weekend!  I wish all of you a great and safe holiday weekend!   May 26, 2017 Be Your Best SCRIPTURE OF THE DAY Genesis 17:1 ""And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the Lord appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect. " QUOTE OF THE DAY Lorenzo Snow "If we could read in detail the life of Abraham or the lives of other great and holy men we would doubtless find that their efforts to be righteous were not always crowned with success. Hence we should not be discouraged if we should be overcome in a weak moment; but, on the contrary, straightway repent of the error or the wrong we may have committed, and as far as possible repair it, and then seek to God for renewed strength to go on and do better" ( Teachings ...