Brown Family Faith Leap 2025

2025(26) Faith Leap - Chapter 17: 11 becomes 10 Utah leapt forward for Daylight Savings this week - which means we are now 10 hours ahead of home. This means we get to go to bed an hour earlier on Tuesdays (when Bob joins his Commonwealth class), but it makes our morning meetings all the earlier: our parent meetings are now at 5am, and this week Bob had an interview at 4am, and the next day Richard and I will conduct a meeting at 6am. 🥱 Ignore the filthy, tattered towel with the obscure picture on it that Miss is holding. In spite of that, something about her silhouette, the setting sun, and the rolling waves speaks to me. On second thought, maybe it is a metaphor of Georgia: so much is undecipherable, poor and broken - having been pounded by the waves of one conquering regime after another yet, impressively still in one piece and functioning. Follow up from my last blog is  President Eyring's talk  from last General Conference. I remember exactly where I was and what I was d...

 2025(26) Faith Leap - Chapter 16: Half Way to Home As with most things in life, I find myself asking "How are we already halfway through our time here?" while, simultaneously asking, "How are we only halfway through our time here?". 🤪  It feels like we've been here forever and that June will never come, while also feeling like we have so much we have yet to accomplish and such little time in which to do it. "...he that hath faith to be healed, and is not appointed unto death, shall be healed. He who hath faith to see shall see. He who hath faith to hear shall hear. The lame who hath faith to leap shall leap." - D&C 42:48-51. "We will prove them herewith, to see if they will do all things whatsoever the Lord their God shall command them." - Abraham 3:25 Appointed and Prove. These principles seem to be the over-arching message of every Old Testament story I’ve read recently. Does anyone else wonder why we see mighty miracles in the script...