So the Local Weekly Paper has Me Contribute Occasional Short Columns
We live in a small valley in Southern Colorado. It’s a neat community nestled in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains. It has a slower pace and is populated by nice people, zero traffic lights, and plenty of dirt roads.
For a small town its size, it’s probably bucking the odds to still have a weekly newspaper published. The Greenhorn Valley View. A fine publication printed every Thursday that covers the comings and goings of the four small communities that make up the valley.
Among the View’s sections is about a half-page dedicated to Religion, where each of the nine or so leaders of local churches are given the opportunity to contribute short articles that the paper calls “Devotions” or “Meditations.”
As a representative of the local ward of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, I’m asked to submit a devotion about once a quarter. Its a nice opportunity to contribute uplifting messages and share feelings about our Savior Jesus Christ.
So my plan is to post links to each of those stories here, as a way to aggregate them in one location. If for no other reason than to make it easier for my mom to find them.
So, here they are. I hope you enjoy them as much as mom.
TRUST IN HARD TIMES (April 2021)
OUR POTENTIAL THAT CHRIST CAN SEE (Feb. 2021)
THE HEALING POWER OF GRATITUDE (Dec. 2020)
THE JOY OF SAFELY RETURNING TO CHURCH GATHERINGS (Sept. 2020)
FOLLOW THE EXAMPLE OF HIM WHO ISN’T A RESPECTER OF PERSONS (July 2020)
SIMPLE ACTS OF KINDNESS (Feb. 2020)
WISE COUNSEL FROM BRAZIL (Oct. 2019)
SETTING ASIDE DIFFERENCES (July 2019)
ARCHIVED: This is an essay (from July 2018) about How a False Accusation Transformed My Life. Here’s a tribute to my late father, A Letter To Dad, from 2020. This is a story from 2007 about my son’s accident in a Pee Wee baseball game.
