Building bridges with #1 Amazon Bestseller book, Ask God

In my youth, I loved to experiment with bridges using blocks and Tinker Toys. There was something magical and practical about connecting one point to another and, thereby, allowing toy-cars access once denied. So it is with the #1 Amazon Bestseller book, Ask God. In place of building bridges for the ease of transportation, Ask God experiments…

Story Story: The essential part of any journey to success

My events leading up to finishing the book Story Story I awake from a dream I remember not.  I spy the alarm clock: 5:44 am.  “Yikes! It’s time to get Kaelyn to seminary!” I say as I strategically bump Denielle with my hand feigning a stretch.  She doesn’t budge.  My turn to get up. I fetch a…

Faith is like a little seed, if planted it will grow

“But we are only eight verses away,” Neil says excitedly as we were about to conclude our family scripture study.  “We have to finish it!” For the first time as a family, we are about to complete the Book of Mormon, cover to cover.  Yes, we have read many times from the Book of Mormon, but…

Wands at the ready: How to build a family farm on faith

What makes a good story good?  Why are some stories, you know, the tween-turn-teen-muddles-through-life-to-discover-he’s-really-a-wizard-and-will-go-on-to-defeat-the-bad-guys kinds of stories, so powerful they sell millions of books and gets retold in another million mediums?  Why do we relate so fondly to characters who seem at first blush ordinary but later discover within themselves extraordinary gifts and power? Because…

Happy birthday! I am a child of God

Lil’ Lydia’s birthday is this weekend.  She turns four.  Although adopted this year, Lydia has been with us now for more than half her life.  She came to us in need of physical and spiritual adjustment.  She now physically and spiritually blesses us. As we were watching General Conference, the organist played the prelude to…

The mind of God revealed in a weekend

My current vocabulary is not equipped with the right words to convey my joy of writing to you today.  The Spirit is strong right now, and what I mean by that is I can feel the fruits of the Holy Ghost: kindness, charity, joy, righteousness, peace, a desire to do good works, a desire to…