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I love her honesty. For myself it is easy to look at others and wonder why they have it all together and I don't. I am fully aware that this isn't how life works, but my eyes and my head don't always seem to be in sync.

This was the first thing I read when faced with my husband's FC. I really liked it. I haven't read it in over a year, but I felt assurance and relief that he wasn't the only one. I also had struggled with explanations of different doctrines and hadn't done enough research to "decide" for myself. I n...

Really it is days like this that make me question if I can balance all of this. I feel like this every. single. week. Yesterday was our Stake Conference and I spent the morning in bed playing Candy Crush and eating treats with the kids. It felt much more meaningful. Wonder how I would explain that ...

So why am I here, on this forum? Because I have a beautiful, compassionate, but very frightened wife and two beautiful, amazing but young children. And I know that my decisions don't just impact me. They impact our whole family. What does it mean to navigate a faith crisis while you are bound to pe...

I want to start calling out un-loving and politically inappropriate comments made in Sunday School, or get that tattoo, or wear pants to church (all for the wrong reasons - as you can tell), or even to just move to a new place, so then there would be a reason for me to feel so marginalized Sit by m...

The other good thing is that if they are annoying and inconsiderate before they leave it makes it easier to see them go. I tried to remember this everyday when my same aged daughter left for college last fall. She is/was a super great kid who drove me crazy in the end. Similar issues with respectin...

Sincere thanks to you Ray. Besides your own life you have allowed us to enter your thoughts and insight. Thank you for your support! Hope good things are heading your way.

There is a great article I just read about this very thing. It was about a book that a non member wrote. I will try and find the link and edit my post. I am not super tech savy but I wouldn't mind having it as a reference. Found it. I really loved everything in this. Not everything is exactly about ...

Holy cow....are you in my ward? Not only has it been a huge topic of church conversation but the entire focus on Ward Council meetings for the last 6 months (maybe not last month, I was released). Yesterday we had 3 testimonies that were "assigned" and asked to speak on missionary work. I read that ...

The missionaries are using "Preach My Gospel" in our area and I believe in all areas. In a recent calling I ended up going on splits (so strange story, anyway)that is what they were using. Our area also has a ward quota that so many discussions are to be taught in homes. It doesn't matter if the dis...