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  Beautiful thoughts on being prepared for storms that will come! How Can I Make Mine the House That Survives the Storm? By  Kathy K. Clayton  · April 13, 2022 Spring is a season of emerging. Winter-weary gardens everywhere are enlivened by determined, purple and marigold crocuses dotting the dirt as they press upward. Those tenacious flowers have awaited the spring sunshine under layers of short days and winter snow. This year there has been a different and unprecedented emergence occurring simultaneously. Unmasked neighbors and friends are resurfacing after having been hunkered down under layers of hand sanitizer and social distancing. The whole blessed time of return has been a welcome celebration of rebirth. This season of emergence is an opportune time to look around and within to enable us to conscientiously attend to the details of the structures of our lives with care, as we dust off the remnants of a long winter, both literally and figuratively. It’s a valuable t...

This is fascinating!     I'm posting 2 blogs today.  I have been gone, and haven't posted for a couple of weeks.   I was at this tomb in April 2018.  I took some pictures, but wasn't able to upload them here.  Perhaps another time! Finding the Lord’s Tomb By  Frances Stones  · April 14, 2022 Images by Scot Facer Proctor. In the history and wellbeing of all mankind two of the most important events ever to occur were the sacrifice of the life of Christ, the Son of God, and His subsequent resurrection, without which we would all be lost. Only He had the power to lay down His life and take it up again. The scriptures tell us that His death was so horrific that darkness prevailed over the face of the earth (Luke 23: 44; 3 Nephi 8: 20-23). Truly the light of life had gone out. His body was destined to be “cast into a common grave for executed criminals” (‘Jesus the Christ’ by James E. Talmage, p. 664). It surely would have been disposed of in ...

  FAMOUS LATTER-DAY SAINTS The Latter-day Saint who played the voice of God + other Church connections to ‘The Ten Commandments’ April 07, 2022 08:00 AM MDT Twitter Pinterest Email Print Vox.com Every Easter season, I anxiously anticipate when the classic, Academy Award-winning, biblically epic movie  The Ten Commandments  begins to play on TV stations around the world. Nominated for seven Academy Awards,  The Ten Commandments  was the most expensive film ever made at the time of its release. The number of people involved in creating the movie is mind-boggling, and the set for the film was so elaborate, large, and expensive to move that producer, director, and narrator Cecil B. DeMille ordered it buried so a rival filmmaker could not use the set. Truly,  The Ten Commandments  is a movie that is unrivaled in its grandeur and impact. But did you know there are several Latter-day Saint connections to this iconic film? Latter-day Saint Artist Nominate...

  I need to comment on the article below!  I wanted to be a mother, and I was able to have nine children.  My late husband was also happy to have a large family, and he was a school teacher, and I a stay at home mother.  I did teach some piano lessons, but otherwise he worked extra jobs, either early in the morning, of after school, and in the summer.   Now our nine children are truly a great help to the whole world!  Our children include an insurance agent, teachers, a nurse, a skilled craftsman carpenter, an administrative secretary, a paralegal, and a teacher's aide with 7 children. Their spouses include very successful people, several more teachers, psychoanalysist, computer expert, etc.  Of these,7 children have bachelor's degrees, all have college education, 3 have Master's Degrees, and we have 29 grandchildren, 26 great grandchildren, and one more on the horizon!  They all pay taxes, are honorable citizens, and a great help to the worl...