How clear is your vision? Not your physical eyesight, but your vision of life. Are you tolerating more fuzziness than you’d like? When your physical eyesight is blurry it can affect your feelings of confidence. And so also, when your…
The New Year, A Time to Reflect
Before rushing headlong into the New Year, I invite you to celebrate the past year. Take time to reflect, and learn from your varied experiences. Only as I sat down to review and reflect did I realize the many gifts…
The Meaning of Christmas
I hope you are doing well, and that this Christmas season is one of joy! I invite you to watch and feel the spirit of this beautiful video of the birth of Christ. Perhaps watching together with family can become…
A Simple Solution to Overwhelm
We’ve just finished celebrating the Thanksgiving holiday here in the United States. Were you able to enjoy the time with family and friends, or did you feel overwhelmed, and stressed? Are you looking forward to Christmas or are you feeling…
Grateful for Tender Mercies
It’s been a moment. I haven’t written a Weekly Insight for a few weeks because of traveling with family. My husband and I traveled to Peru to visit our daughter who lives there. It was an amazing experience! Meeting wonderful…
Receiving Graciously Improves Your Ability to Give
Are you someone who finds it is easier to give than to receive? Because you believe that it is better to give than to receive, perhaps you resist accepting the support of others. You know your service is valuable and…
7 Truths to Help You Overcome Adversity
I wrote the following five years ago, in the midst of a challenging farming season. Nevertheless, the truths it contains remain just as relevant today as they were back then. I began with the following question: How does one navigate…
Loving Life Through Daily Habits
Learning that daily routines free up mental and physical energy to be used in other ways was a game changer for me. As I applied this knowledge I found myself empowered in my use of time. But on occasion I…
Choose to Believe
I was deeply touched by an article I read a few years back by Elder Jeffrey R. Holland. He said, “You undoubtedly will have days, to quote Mr. Donne (John Donne, the English poet and cleric and dean of St….
Finding Peace in Chaos
Living on a farm, I now pay more attention to the weather than I ever did before. It’s not uncommon where I live in Idaho to experience sun, clouds, rain, wind, lightning, hail, even a tornado watch, and back…
Intuition or Emotion?
(Author’s Note: I have written on this topic before, but I’m curious to know if my original thoughts hold true. I’m interested in my reader’s experiences in regards to emotion and intuition.) Have you ever been uncertain about the distinction…
To Understand and Be Understood
Have you ever noticed how easily misunderstandings can arise in our conversations? The other day, while my husband was giving directions to our daughter over the phone, I could sense frustration building on both ends as the message wasn’t getting…
