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Sunday Reflections: Behold Thy Mother

Sunday Reflections: Behold Thy Mother

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Few messages have touched the heart of mothers worldwide as beautifully and as powerfully as did “Behold Thy Mother” by Elder Jeffrey R. Holland of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. “No love in mortality comes closer to approximating the pure love of Jesus Christ than the selfless love a devoted mother has for her child,” Elder Holland shared as he paid tribute to mothers in General Conference of October 2015. From their long-suffering love when first bearing their children,…

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Sunday Reflections: The Sunshine of a Mother’s Love

Sunday Reflections: The Sunshine of a Mother’s Love

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Elisa and I have both been blessed with mothers who filled our souls with sunshine. Through their abundant love, their forever quest to nurture their children has blessed us, our siblings, their grandchildren, and many others. That blessing extends to you today as we share their love of music. My mother, Carolyn Christiansen Patterson, enjoyed singing and was blessed with the soft beautiful voice of an angel. She and her sisters enjoyed singing together and we’re often compared to the…

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Sunday Reflections: Whose Child Am I?

Sunday Reflections: Whose Child Am I?

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When Naomi Randall wrote “I Am A Child Of God” in the middle of the night in 1957, she had no idea the impact it would have on millions of people. Translated into more than 90 languages, millions of children around the world have sung it and discovered the eternal truth they are children of God. That truth has created comfort and peace for Elisa and me. For Elisa, it was simply knowing an eternally loving Father also watched over…

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Sunday Reflections – O My Father

Sunday Reflections – O My Father

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Few truths are as important nor as applicable as knowing we are a child of God. Such knowledge, as Eliza R. Snow shares in her seminal hymn “O My Father,” helps us know we had “wandered from a more exalted sphere.” O my Father, thou that dwellest In the high and glorious place, When shall I regain thy presence And again behold thy face? In thy holy habitation, Did my spirit once reside? In my first primeval childhood Was I nurtured…

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Sunday Reflections: Beautiful Savior Our Easter Gift

Sunday Reflections: Beautiful Savior Our Easter Gift

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From the darkness of Golgotha on Good Friday, to the miraculous triumph of Resurrection Sunday, we celebrate with you the gift of Easter, the gift of hope and everlasting peace brought to each of us through the Atonement and Resurrection of our Beautiful Savior Jesus Christ. 🎼🎼🎼 Fair is the sunshine, Fairer the moonlight And all the stars in heav’n above; Jesus shines brighter, Jesus shines purer And brings to all the world his love. 🎼🎼🎼 When the sting of…

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Sunday Reflections: What has become your Ebenezer?

Sunday Reflections: What has become your Ebenezer?

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Where is the main source of your love? From whence do you find your light? What has become your Ebenezer? Ebenezer??? The question comes from the first line of the second stanza of the beloved Christian hymn, “Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing.” “Here I raise my Ebenezer, hither by thy help I come…” The lyrics reference a passage in 1 Samuel 7:12 when the prophet Samuel “took a stone, and set it between Mizpeh and Shen, and called the…

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SOARING WEAKNESS

SOARING WEAKNESS

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Our weaknesses can easily overwhelm us and give us plentiful excuses to not step up to the plate. Or… We can choose to find a way to soar. Ty Bennett, a mentor and friend, inspired this little gem (link to his Monday Morning Mantra in the comments). I hope you enjoy! SOARING WEAKNESS By Les Patterson That which I find weak Stops me from soaring When I fail to see greatness Inside me is growing When I shift my perspective…

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Monday Morning Boost: The Uniqueness Of Leaves, And You and I!

Monday Morning Boost: The Uniqueness Of Leaves, And You and I!

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Analyze, if you would please, the leaf diagram pictured. What do you notice? Perhaps you are wondering, as I did, what tree each leaf comes from. Trees are generally classified (is the right scientific terms?) as either deciduous or coniferous. Or in the very rare case “deciduous conifers” that take “characteristics of both” (thanks Vanessa Richins Myers for the education!). The key thing I noticed is each leaf is uniquely different. Each leaf from each and every tree has unique…

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Sunday Reflections: No Longer Strangers

Sunday Reflections: No Longer Strangers

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WE ONCE WERE By Les Patterson We once were strangers Yet we choose to say hello We created connection We created a friendship We once were each unknown Yet we changed the status We did something about it We choose to be open and share We once were good on our own Yet we knew much more awaited We discovered we knew the truth We are greater as friends than not We once were simply friends Yet we knew there…

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