Category: Personal
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Fear, Love, and Truth in the Time of COVID
About three weeks ago, I was working with my youngest as she learned to ride her bicycle (with training wheels) confidently. She was afraid and struggling, and in my encouragement to her, I heard the reminders that our Heavenly Father gives to us – “Do not be afraid. I am with you.” I sat down…
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Snapshots
At one point this summer, our lives – our reactions, our love, our joy, our despair, our confusion – were perfectly captured in a series of snapshots taken by a dear friend. The candid shots were taken unbeknownst to my husband, my mother, my daughter, me, or any of our friends sitting near us. Once…
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Stories That Shape Us – The Princess and the Pea
How did I end up here? Our days can drift along as quietly as a slow, calm current ambling downstream. The branches overhanging the banks of our lives rarely vary; the view remains fairly similar – safe and familiar. But then… the river turns a bend and rapids appear. We find life is now dangerous,…
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Stories That Shape Us – What Came Before
All children love stories. Particularly those stories about mother getting into trouble, or father forgetting about his math homework, or, best of all, how mother and father met. These stories shape and define our understanding of our family, of our culture, of how we fit into this bright, cold world we are all born into.…
Heather C. Morris 