While sitting at Church a couple of days ago, a sudden pain just underneath the left breast hit me. Hard to breathe, as if something was literally stabbing me in the heart. It only lasted for a couple of minutes. I stood up and I felt better after a few seconds. The doctor said it [...]

Someone must be praying for me. But this evening, I’ve never felt more calm, more at peace and more hopeful than I have in several months. Things that I’ve learned lately: Sadness, if left unchecked, can lie to you. It can convince you to believe some of the most heinous of all lies. It is [...]

What a wonderful thing it is to be alive. It’s a privlege to have the opportunity to become a little bit better than you were yesterday. After some thought, continual personal improvement will be the focus for the year. I guess you can say that my recent workplace health checkup started it all. Significantly obese, [...]

About eight months ago, I bought some discount passes to the movie theatre hoping that sometime, I’ll be able to take my wife out for a nice evening. With everyday life busy as it is, they got trapped in a drawer, unused and forgotten. Eight months later, my wife cleaned up the drawer in the [...]

“Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life…” Deuteronomy 4:9 How easily we forget how we got to the place where we are today. I am so grateful for the [...]

Just now, I dreamed that were on some sort of trek through the the back country. We met all sorts of people. One day, we met someone who was poor and destitute, yet they were kind enough to allow us to live in his property. He mentioned that for years, he had been trying to [...]

One thing that we’re encouraged to do as members of the Church is to set aside one night per week where we will spend an entire evening with the family. We made so many excuses, and there were so many reasons not to follow the Prophet’s advice to hold Family home evening. With Oak-jin and [...]

Financially, things have been a little bit hairy. Although we have enough money, when a big emergency comes around, our plans are thwarted and we’re faced with tough choices. We had to buy new tires for the car, and that left us $300.00 in the hole. In the end, it came down to a decision: [...]

One thinks of the fisherman called Simon, better known to you and to me as Peter, chief among the Apostles. Doubting, disbelieving, impetuous Peter, in fulfillment of the Master’s prophecy, indeed did deny Him thrice. Amidst the pushing, the jeers, and the blows, “the Lord in the agony of His humiliation, in the majesty of [...]

From Surrey Stake Conference, 30 January 2005. If you want to see a fox in your back yard in “Jolly ol’ England”, Get a big, fat juicy bone with some meat on it and place it on your back yard. After a few days you’ll see foxes. A recently immigrated family did just that one [...]