by Jennifer Barker | Jul 28, 2020 | Religion, Self-care
I have a bit of OCD and find it soothing to go through everything I own about once every 3 months, sorting, organizing, and eliminating anything I don’t need or use. I’d qualify for a platinum membership at Deseret Industries (thrift store donations), if they had...
by Jennifer Barker | Jun 7, 2020 | Health, Religion
“We cannot truly love God if we do not love our fellow travelers on this mortal journey. Likewise, we cannot fully love our fellowmen if we do not love God, the Father of us all. The Apostle John tells us, ‘This commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God...
by Jennifer Barker | Apr 19, 2020 | Family, Health, Religion
“Change and decay in all around I see—O, Thou who changest not, abide with me.” It’s hard to remember a time I wasn’t dealing with a great deal of change. It seems that change is something that’s always with us, in one form or another. I’ve occasionally wished I could...
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 | Nov 17, 2019 | Divorce, Family, Parenting, Religion, Self-care
Jesus Christ is the light, the life, and the hope of the world. “Whoso believeth in God might with surety hope for a better world, yea, even a place at the right hand of God, which hope cometh of faith, maketh an anchor to the souls of men, which would make them sure...