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Is Repentance a Topic for Polite Company?

True story 1: Many years ago, a friend was telling me about something he/she had observed in his/her in-law's marriage that had been less than ideal. Translation: this was a normal marriage. Clutch your pearls now, Lucille. Yes - we were talking about a HUMAN marriage in a FALLEN world. The weakness wasn't something egregious like abuse, but it was definitely unrighteous dominion - the garden-variety kind that we often fail to recognize AS unrighteous dominion - the passive

Laureen Simper

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Is Repentance a Topic for Polite Company?

True story 1: Many years ago, a friend was telling me about something he/she had observed in his/her in-law's marriage that had been less than ideal. Translation: this was a normal marriage. Clutch your pearls now, Lucille. Yes - we were talking about a HUMAN marriage in a FALLEN world. The weakness wasn't something egregious like abuse, but it was definitely unrighteous dominion - the garden-variety kind that we often fail to recognize AS unrighteous dominion - the passive

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Laureen Simper

Oct 205 min read

Gospel Basics for the Directionally Challenged

At the risk of stating the obvious, I just want to start by saying that I love the way Jesus does things. The more I pay attention to what He does and the way He does it, the more I think, "Boy, I'm sure glad HE's in charge!" He's always kind and compassionate. But He's never nice. He's always meek and lowly of heart. But He's never weak. He always speaks the truth. But He's never harsh. He has great power - over the very elements He created. But He never abuses it by using i

Scripture Insights

Laureen Simper

Oct 74 min read

Charlie Kirk’s Lifelong Quest for Learning

I wish I could remember when Charlie Kirk hit my radar; my best guess is 3 or 4 years ago. I remember marveling how intelligent he was -...

What in the World

Laureen Simper

Sep 304 min read

If You've Broken Up with Jesus

Tuesday night was our monthly Inklings discussion; ladies in my neighborhood gathered to study general conference talks. We range in age...

Scripture Insights

Laureen Simper

Sep 54 min read

Temperance: The Virtue of Living in the Pause

"Take My Hand," Greg Olsen If you go into a Deseret Book store, and look for the book Like Him, and turn to page 49, you'll find this...

Scripture Insights

Laureen Simper

Aug 254 min read

Faith to Walk on Water Means Getting Your Feet Wet

I've always admired people with great discipline, probably because I fancy I don't have any. And while that may not be entirely true,...

Private Lessons

Laureen Simper

Aug 86 min read

Praise: Gratitude on Steroids

I spent my 65th birthday in the hospital. I had a serious case of covid, as had Dale. That Friday - November 19, 2021, was the first time...

Private Lessons

Laureen Simper

Jul 284 min read

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"Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom."

― Viktor Frankl

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."

― Aristotle

"We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started...and know the place for the first time."

― T.S. Eliot

"To you women of today, who are old or young, may I suggest to you that you write, that you keep journals, that you express your thoughts on paper. Writing is a great discipline. It is a tremendous education effort. It will assist you in various ways, and you will bless the lives of many―now and in the years to come, as you put on paper some of your experiences and some of your musings."

― Gordon B. Hinckley

“A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself. You have a chance to select from pretty elegant furnishings.”

― Louis L'Amour

"Words are the dress of thoughts; which should no more be presented in rags, tatters, and dirt than your person should."

― Philip Dormer Stanhope

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