by Lisa M. | Dec 2, 2020 | AAAA Mormon Beliefs Website, Mormon Thoughts |
Thanksgiving is often relegated to being the little holiday before the big one—Christmas. And the hustle and bustle of the Christmas season encroach more and more on the time we spend on giving thanks. Recently, my daughters were discussing how they wished they could...
by Lisa M. | Jan 19, 2020 | AAAA Mormon Beliefs Website, Mormon Thoughts |
My new year’s resolution is to become more like my Grandma B. She is a legend in my family. At 95, she was tech-savvy enough to show her grandson-in-law how to use his smartphone to send pictures because they had the same phone. She only stopped texting and sending...
by Lisa M. | Oct 19, 2019 | AAAA Mormon Beliefs Website, Mormon Thoughts |
The first weekend of April and October are big days for my family—and for other members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (sometimes mistakenly called Mormons or the Mormon Church). They kind of feel like holidays. Because on those weekends, the...
by Lisa M. | Apr 21, 2019 | AAAA Mormon Beliefs Website, Mormon Thoughts |
The Easter bunny will not be visiting our house this year. It will be a monumental change for me (and my family), but with my oldest graduating from high school and my youngest leaving elementary school, our Easter celebrations have taken on greater meaning and focus...
by Lisa M. | Feb 25, 2019 | AAAA Mormon Beliefs Website, Mormon Thoughts |
This year’s theme for our little town’s Winter Carnival was “Heroes, Myths and Legends.” One of the sculptures is of the wizard Gandalf in the “Lord of the Rings” series. He is a hero, helping other characters to reach deeper inside themselves and do more than they...
by Lisa M. | Dec 23, 2018 | AAAA Mormon Beliefs Website, Mormon Thoughts |
Just days before Christmas, I read a short news story about a child in our small town who was hit and killed in a terrible auto-pedestrian accident. According to the report, it was a horrible instance of tragic timing, that happened so fast the driver did not have...
