Aug
6
A Conversation with God
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I remember being behind on paying my tithing. I was talking to Heavenly Father about it in prayer and said, “Yeah, this next paycheck I’ll be sure to pay you the $50 I owe you.” God interjected, “$70.” I responded, “$70? No way it’s $50.” “$70.” “What? How can it possibly be $70?” “Check again.” [...]
Aug
5
“Yesterday” and Today, Music in SF/F
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When I joined N3F many moons ago, I was fourteen. I really didn’t do much with it because I didn’t get this whole “be actively involved” idea as a fan. So, I wasted my big sister’s money. As I got older, but still only about sixteen or seventeen years old (still in high school basically) [...]
Aug
4
I thought I’d share this very cool movie tool. The website is called www.kids-in-mind.com They have three categories to rate a movie, each category having a 0 to 10 scale, 10 being the worst (or the most) and 0 being the safest (or the least). The categories are Sex/Nudity, Violence/Gore, and Profanity. The categories are [...]
Aug
3
Hymns in Our Personal Lives Idea Sheet.
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At Church I am the Relief Society Music Director (RS is the women’s meeting), and I get five minutes of time to simply talk about music. I had the sisters come up with ideas on how to integrate the hymns in their personal lives. This is what we all came up with. Here is a [...]
Aug
2
A friend of mine, Myke Timpe, made this for me. It was out of the blue. I have kept it for all these years. I remember when he showed it to me I instantly said, “I’ve seen that before.” And I had. I had a dream about this image, but in the dream it wasn’t [...]