by Jennifer Barker | Apr 12, 2020 | Family, Religion
“The increasing darkness that accompanies tribulation makes the light of Jesus Christ shine ever brighter.” Russell M. Nelson This has been a strange, beautiful, scary, lonely, spiritual, and blessed time. I wonder how I will look back on this time of “sheltering” at...
by Jennifer Barker | Mar 22, 2020 | Family, Health, Religion, Self-care
This week I was determined to focus on the good as I kept my heart open to trusting the Lord and His goodness and love. It’s easier to remember that nothing can really go “wrong” when God holds us, the entire world, in His kind and capable hands and is aware of...
by Jennifer Barker | Mar 15, 2020 | Family, Health, Religion
“Fear, which can come upon people in difficult days, is a principal weapon in the arsenal which Satan uses to make mankind unhappy. He who fears loses strength for the combat of life in the fight against evil. Therefore the power of the evil one always tries to...
by Jennifer Barker | Mar 8, 2020 | Family, Health, Parenting, Religion
“It is the wounded Christ who is the captain of our soul—he who yet bears the scars of sacrifice, the lesions of love and humility and forgiveness. “Those wounds are what he invites young and old, then and now, to step forward and see and feel. Then we remember with...
by Jennifer Barker | Feb 23, 2020 | Family, Religion
“The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted…to comfort all that mourn…to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of...
by Jennifer Barker | Feb 16, 2020 | Family, Religion
This week I’ve had the blessing of reminiscing about the life of my dear Mother, Jackie McEwen, and the influence she’s had on me and my family. I don’t remember much when I was very little, but recently when going through old photos, I found pictures of Mom with us...
