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The View from the Great and Spacious Building

April 13, 2012

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In the Book of Mormon a famous dream is rendered a couple of times for our benefit. A good man has been making his way toward the tree of life along a path with an iron handrail. Smothering darkness swallows him from time to time, but he holds fast to the rod and makes it […]

No Motherless Children

March 27, 2012

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Sometimes I feel like a motherless child  … a long ways from home.” The mournful strains rocked my child body as I laid on the floor listening to the slow, nearly hopeless rhythm. I had a mother; she bought the record I was listening to, washed the clothes I was wearing, made the fudge I had […]

For Such a Time as This

November 21, 2011

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Each visit of my sweet mother brings stories I’d never heard. Today I sat across from her at a busy buffet window table, and learned why she is still Mormon. Many years ago my parents suffered through hard times exacerbated by the fragility of youth and a genesis absent faith, for my parents found the […]