My Disaster the Day before Thanksgiving
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- Who Is a Mormon? by Christopher D. Cunningham
- 746 Times: What a Word Cloud Revealed About the April 2026 General Conference by Patrick D. Degn
- Broadway’s Last Acceptable Bigotry by Joel Campbell
- An Experiment in Prayer: Ocean to Ice by Mike Loveridge
- What Joseph Smith Saw in Exodus That We’ve Been Missing by Alvin H. Andrew
- Shamar: What It Means to “Keep” the Commandments in Hebrew by Steve Densley, Jr.
- (Re)Discovering Lorenzo Ghiberti’s “Gates of Paradise” at the BYU Museum of Art by John Dye
- When You Only Have Five Minutes to Get Out by Carolyn Nicolaysen
- “All Things Point Us to the Savior’s Atonement”–Come Follow Me Podcast #19: Exodus 35-40; Leviticus 1; 4; 16; 19 by Scot and Maurine Proctor
- Your Hardest Family Question: Our kids don’t connect with my wife by Geoff Steurer, MS, LMFT
















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nina ownbyNovember 30, 2013
Beautiful reminder of what matters most. Comfort and assurance eloquently shared. Your writing is a blessed gift to all. Thank you!
DAVID JNovember 27, 2013
OH, I LOVED THE ARTICLE. SUCH SENSITIVITY AND THOUGHT FOR ALL OF US TO PONDER. YOU ARE TERRIFIC , AND I LOVE YOU! YOUR BROTHER
Thomas JNovember 27, 2013
I love this. I am so grateful that God gave me a mother so tender and brilliant.
LuNovember 27, 2013
Thank you for such a beautiful reminder of what is truly important, and of the perfect character of our Heavenly Father.
Herm olsenNovember 27, 2013
Ouch! I STILL cringe at the thoughts of my private mortifications. They still ring brightly despite the passing years. Thanks for sharing yours. I can assure you that others are far more forgiving of us than we are of ourselves.
Julie AnnNovember 27, 2013
Great article! I am grateful for my mother. I love you, Mom.
Steve DoneganNovember 27, 2013
I am also grateful for the things God cannot do, for in them I find strength. A very short list of them would include: He cannot find a mountain He cannot climb; He cannot find an ocean He cannot reach the bottom of; He cannot find, in all of the eternities, a single moment where He did not love us, no matter how unlovable we may have thought ourselves. Yes, I'm grateful for the things God cannot do...
darla IsacksonNovember 27, 2013
The wise and wonderful perspectives in the last half of this article should be shouted from the rooftops! I love the way Maurine puts the puzzle pieces together to form such a new, clear, insightful picture of gratitude. I'm uplifted and inspired by her words! Darla Isackson
Miriam Feldstein CaseNovember 27, 2013
This article is right on the mark! It makes "big" things seem small when compared to the love of God and his power.
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