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It's everywhere. All over again. Just like at Temple Square in November.
I suppose it's wrong to call it coincidence. I don't call anything coincidence anymore.
Just "tender mercies", right?

The comfort and peace I felt the other night reading in my Patriarchal Blessing and in 2 Nephi & in Jacob - and the answers that seemed to just jump out ( Read more... )

> ♥ Move My Heart ♥ <

I ran across that link hidden in the depths of myspace. I was so ecstatic to find it! Seven or eight years ago my parents purchased that seminary video and one day I sat down at watched the entire video. I remember that part of the video and how my heart buckled beneath the beauty and amazing miraculous feelings I felt ( Read more... )

"Think about your life and set your priorities. Find some quiet time regularly to think deeply about where you are going and what you will need to do to get there. Jesus, our exemplar, often 'withdrew himself into the wilderness, and prayed' (Luke 5:16). We need to do the same thing occasionally to rejuvenate ourselves spiritually as the Savior ( Read more... )

I love warm thunderstorms.

All day I was hoping and praying for a thunderstorm...and while it's not yet thundering, it's lightening and pouring and I love it. It's definitely soothing my soul. Instead of feeling eccentrically brilliant and like a creative master of the fine arts though, I'm feeling calm. The bands of rain seem to be sliding ( Read more... )

Have you ever felt frustrated and encouraged/blessed all at once?

Saturday and today Sister Crane (okay, she says I should call her Darla and I just call her mom) said she wanted to fast with/for me and the whole missionary experience...funding, finances, choices, etc.

( So I fasted yesterday... )

At the present moment, I am highly unsatisfied with the emotional relief this black Dell keyboard, my DSL connection, and livejournal.com can offer me.
I need music. So...why don't I put it in my life again?
It's always my release. My expression. My heartbeat. My love.
Without music, I don't exist.

[You can thank Return of the King for ( Read more... )

I felt the urge to post a bazillion pictures of places near where I live ( Read more... )

This song makes me think of many warm and tender things.
Some real and some not (but very possible).
Things end. Things begin. Change happens.
Truth stays.

I really can't say enough how music touches me and plays such a huge role in my life. It's my only authentic way to express myself...
...To speak.

Coolest dream ever ( Read more... )