I love being a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I joined back in 1964 after a long struggle with faith. I had loved the Savior ever since I could remember, but the church of my youth deserted me as it moved into the intellect movement of the 60's. Without spiritual guidance, I fell away. The Lord distinguished between the words of my mouth and the longing of my heart. He knew that I wanted to believe and so he sent a young woman who told me the story of the Restored Gospel. She bore her testimony of Jesus Christ and promised me that I could know for myself and have my own testimony.

Now forty-six years later I can only thank her from the bottom of my heart for introducing me to the church. Indeed I do have my own testimony. I know that Joseph Smith was a prophet, called to restore Christ's church to the earth. We have a prophet today who leads and guides us. I am so grateful for Latter-day scriptures that bear testimony of Jesus Christ. The Book of Mormon is the Word of God. It stands as another witness of the Savior and it's truths have touched my life in very personal ways.

I hope that my poetry reflects the growth of my testimony and my love for Jesus Christ.

My Quiet Place

I am retired now but I was blessed to teach elementary music.  When we did movement of any kind in the classroom the children needed a way to define their own space or else there were bumps and collisions.  We defined that space as a bubble and they were to make sure no one invaded.  The responsibility was put on each of them to protect that space.

Don't we have the same problem in life?  We have our own personal space and we create a climate that we enjoy there.  Yet we let other things invade and interrupt our peace.  It might be angry thoughts or it could be just trying to do too much in a given time period.  There is so much that can just take over and disrupt our lives.  So I think it nice to think about a protective bubble around us and to not let anything invade that takes away our peace.


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