My Favorite Posts from 2024
My favorite posts from 2024 are designed to uplift, encourage, and inspire change in one’s personal life, home, and family.
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Favorite Posts
Following are twelve favorite posts from 2024:
How to Be Ordinary and Happy: 7 Inspiring Ideas
I long to be ordinary. That’s right. Ordinary like my mother and grandmothers. Learning how to be ordinary and happy is the desire of many in our day. These inspiring examples will guide you on the path to a more ordinary and happy life.
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35 Ways to Reawaken Childlike Wonder
The month of April ushers in new life. With branches blossoming in shades of pink and white, gone are the dark days of winter. Birds’ nests fill the once-empty branches. April is a time of rebirth and renewal. Learn how to reawaken childlike wonder:
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Ministering Training Guide: 10 Building Blocks
After experiencing the goodness that comes from ministering with love within the church, seeking ministering opportunities of our own in other areas of our lives simply becomes natural. We develop a desire to bless, lift, and serve others.
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How History Helps Overcome Feelings of Hopelessness
Learning how to overcome feelings of hopelessness is a battle many people face at one time or another. Thankfully, faithful men and women from history have shown us that hope has the power to illuminate its shining light through the suffocating darkness.
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70+ Creative Ways To Protect Family, Faith, And Freedom
Family, faith, and freedom are the founding principles of life. A quick dive into my family history reminds me just how foundational these principles are. Be sure to check out the list of creative action ideas at the end of this post. But first, let’s travel back in time:
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How To Worship: 61 Ways To Worship And Find Joy
“What are three areas in which Christians often struggle?” my daughter’s seminary teacher asked his classroom of energetic youth. His response was thought-provoking. Prayer, fasting, and worship.
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21 Mental Health Self-Care Tips: What is your Cow?
What symptoms do you experience when your mental health is struggling? Mental health self-care may be elevated to a whole new level with regular Mental Health tune-ups, using these twenty-one recommended tips.
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Raising The Bar: 4 Ways To Arise And Shine Forth
“Raising the bar” in one’s life, in one’s home, in one’s church, in one’s community is akin to planting seeds for a better tomorrow. Discover four ways we can “raise the bar” and “arise and shine forth”, that our light may shine for the world to see.
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Recognizing Patterns of Personal Revelation
Patterns of personal revelation may be experienced throughout one’s life. Each person’s quest for more personal revelation, and the manner in which they receive it, is uniquely individual. Personal revelation comes in many forms. Learn more:
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Broken Lives: Finding Hope and Healing
It was broken, of that I was certain. My arm, grasped firmly by my friend, throbbed at the pressure being forced against it. A group of long-time neighborhood friends had gathered in the middle of the street to play a game of Red Rover.
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Godly Men and Women: Where Are You?
The question many have asked is, Which comes first, the chicken or the egg? Do men need to be the first to change, or do women? With fingers pointing in all directions–men’s fingers pointing at women, women’s fingers pointing at men–I asked my daughter her opinion on the matter.
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Prayer Quotes and Inspiration
This collection will encourage both the novice and those experienced with prayer. We begin with a peek inside the French home of the de Lamartine family: “The only lessons of religion given us by my mother were limited to her being herself religious before us and along with us.”
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Traveling Light
Releasing the burdens you were never intended to bear by popular Christian author Max Lucado
Quotes about Self-Improvement
“My business is not to remake myself, but make the absolute best of what God made.”
“When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him. When a man is getting worse he understands his own badness less and less.”
“Be patient with yourself. Perfection comes not in this life, but in the next life. Don’t demand things that are unreasonable, but demand of yourself improvement. As you let the Lord help you through that, He will make the difference.”
President Russell M. Nelson
“God rejoices in even micro level improvements.”
Shima Baughman, BYU Speech, “Giving All Our Heart To Christ”
“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”
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“The most helpless person is the one who is helpless in reforming himself.”
Ali ibn Abi Talib
“Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.”
Epictetus
“Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored.”
Socrates
“True self-mastery comes from turning our ‘self’ over to the Master.”
Colleen G. Harrison
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“I’ve learned over time that I am not necessarily defective, rather, there is often more to work on and more healing that is needed.”
Kristin M. Yes, “The Joy of Our Redemption“, October 2024 GC
“Do you want to grow in patience or in honesty? Do you want to grow in a skill? Maybe you are shy and want to grow in courage. ‘Pray, he is there’!” (A Child’s Prayer)
Susan H. Porter, “Pray He Is There“, April 2024, 78
“There is never a good excuse to say, ‘I am the way I am because of some unfortunate and unpleasant circumstances. And I cannot change, and I am justified’.”
Massimo de Feo, “Rise! He Calleth You“, April 2024
“Most persons are so absorbed in the contemplation of the outside world that they are wholly oblivious to what is passing on within themselves.”
Nikola Tesla
