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Learning What Surrender Actually Is - Blessed Is She

Learning What Surrender Actually Is

I’ve always been the kind of person who doesn’t shy away from putting her heart on the line. Whether it’s a professional aspiration, a personal relationship, or a split-second decision,...
August 10, 2020
More Often in Whispers than Tempests - Blessed Is She

More Often in Whispers than Tempests

August 9th never passes without remembering my brother-in-law. He was killed on this day ten years ago in a small airplane crash in Alaska. It was a crash that my...
August 09, 2020
The Vision Still Has Its Time - Blessed Is She

The Vision Still Has Its Time

I lowered my voice and slowly led the ladies in my coaching group through a visualization exercise. I invited them to ask the Holy Spirit to inspire their imaginations and...
August 08, 2020
Take Them to the Lord in Prayer - Blessed Is She

Take Them to the Lord in Prayer

He wasn’t returning our phone calls or responding to our text messages. We called his brother and his employees but it seemed that he vanished in plain sight. And with...
August 07, 2020
The Faith of My Ancestors - Blessed Is She

The Faith of My Ancestors

I often imagine my great-great grandmother courageously sailing to the United States with my great-great grandfather, an eighteen-month-old daughter, and a swollen, pregnant belly. In 1907, they left their home...
August 06, 2020
Not Even a Mangy Dog - Blessed Is She

Not Even a Mangy Dog

I have a persistent, fluffy white shadow named Otto. His hundred-pound frame follows me from room to room, flopping with a satisfied groan at my feet when I pause for...
August 05, 2020
Enfolded and Restored in His Love - Blessed Is She

Enfolded and Restored in His Love

When I was first coming back to the faith, I was almost incredulous at the goodness and kindness of the people I was meeting in the Church. I was particularly...
August 04, 2020
Faith in the Choppy Waters - Blessed Is She

Faith in the Choppy Waters

Each summer of my childhood, my family and I would spend a week in July boat camping at Lake Powell. We would pack the small little fishing boat with our...
August 03, 2020
Shout It From the Rooftop - Blessed Is She

Shout It From the Rooftop

I’m a realist, a glass-half-empty kind of woman, and if I’m not careful, I can formulate worst case scenarios in my head and lose hope. I’m also not very emotional...
August 02, 2020
The Weight of His Sorrow - Blessed Is She

The Weight of His Sorrow

"The followers of John the Baptist took away his corpse, buried him, and went and told Jesus" (Matthew 14:12). “John has died. He was beheaded by Herod.” Are these the...
August 01, 2020
Feeling Without Honor - Blessed Is She

Feeling Without Honor

“A prophet is not without honor except in his native place and in his own house” (Matthew 13:57). I slammed the fridge door shut, just for the satisfaction of the...
July 31, 2020
Look at Her with Love - Blessed Is She

Look at Her with Love

She sat across the desk from me, checking me in for an appointment. I’d never seen her before, and I studied her as she entered the data. She was thin,...
July 30, 2020