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The Time We Need

By Heather Herrick

My good friend’s step-dad died on Sunday night.  He was in his early-60’s and healthy as far as we all knew.  But he just fell over and died.  My friend didn’t have any details when she told me, but she just kept saying, “I’m so sad.”  However, this sadness is coupled with relief that her relationship with him, that has been difficult in the past, has been better the past few years.  She is relieved that she doesn’t hold the same anger towards him as she has before, glad that things are better, that they have shared love and not just misunderstanding.

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Valley of the Shadow

By Angela W. Schultz

I’m not comfortable with death. When I say that, it doesn’t sound so strange. I suppose many people aren’t comfortable with death. But somehow, as a Latter Day Saint, I think I should be. I understand the gospel. I know that death is part of the plan of salvation. And therefore, I’d like to cruise through life transitions with relative peace. But reality is so different than theory.

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When all you’ve got is…

By Maralise Petersen

Time seems to “hang out” here in rural Virginia. It’s not that people have it, take it, or always use it wisely. But, it’s there, just waiting. I heard a story today about a lady who decided to clean the gravestones in her local cemetery. She spends 5-6 hours a day and will be working for another 3 years in order to finish. You see, she had a friend that died a couple of years ago and she is grieving in that special way that women do–whilst working to clean up the world.

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Elizabeth’s Quilt

By Julie Donaldson

THE STALE, LATE-AFTERNOON AIR hung heavily in the small chapel as the bishop stood at the pulpit reading the usual announcements. The stifling heat, close quarters, and crying babies bred inattention among the congregation—until the bishop suddenly paused and became more serious than usual. “Elizabeth,” he began, “went into premature labor last week.” Only then did …

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When Life Begins

By Kerry Spencer

IT IS LOOKING AT A BRITISH GRAVESTONE, of all things, that makes me think the question. The gravestone is old and covered with some sort of green fungus. There are many people listed on the stone, though their carved names have been degraded by elemental wrath. They have been dead so long that my question seems …

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Formed in Us

By Emily Halverson

It is possible for Christ to be born in men’s lives, and when such an experience happens, that man is “in Christ”—Christ is “formed” in him . . . [Then Christ] is not just a general truth or a fact in history . . . [but a] moving, dynamic, vitalizing force [in his life]. –President Howard W. Hunter [1] IT …

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Somewhere

By Sharlee Mullins Glenn

She strains toward heaven arms outstretched like a child wanting to be held then falls back, outspent subdued by gravity’s ponderous sway How long must she stay suspended as she is between fire and air between here and there incarnation and release? Do not rage, mother (leave the raging to the poet and his father, …

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Hands

By Valerie Nielson Williams

I walked into the room where you were; You looked so peaceful, resting there. So natural, like you’d looked many times over the two decades I’d watched you sleep. I leaned over and kissed your lips still warm, But not reciprocating now. I smoothed your snow-white hair with my hand. By small measure my heart …

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