I Discovered Secrets, Family, and Promises in My Palm

She took both my hands into hers, looking at them intently before tapping the right one saying, “This one.” Her aged and milky brown eyes traced the lines traveling along my right palm, her fingers gently tracing the life I’ve held there. Finally, finished reading the secrets held in my…

The Resurrection of my Mother

We lost my mother suddenly July 19th and I have been in a state of shock since 6 o’clock that morning. Waves of grief have ebbed and flowed over numbness these last few weeks as my father, brother, sister and I have found ourselves in a world so foreign to…

boats beating against the current, ceaselessly against our past

Perhaps one of the most haunting lines from Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby comes at the end with an image of boats straining tirelessly to edge their way along a path against a current only to be carried further and further away into the past. I had long been in love with the…

Temple Attendance: Peace, be still

    I am a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. As an active member of the church, I attend the temple to perform sacred ordinances. Throughout this past year I have had persistent and recurring dreams regarding a temple being built in a nearby community and…