Lest Thou Forget
Laura Pratt2017-05-29T11:33:01-07:00Memorial Day Memorial Day is a set apart day for us to remember those who have offered the ultimate sacrifice of their life to defend a cherished possession: our freedom. People much more
Lessons from My Daughter – Become As a Little Child
Laura Pratt2017-05-24T20:18:03-07:00My Daughter, My Teacher My daughter charges towards the waves: arms waving, giggling, ready to throw herself into the depths of the ocean, trusting that her Daddy is behind her to keep her
Learning to Soar Upwards
Laura Pratt2017-05-17T21:36:39-07:00Soaring Hawk I work on the 18th floor of a 22-story building. (Twenty-one, if you don't count the 13th floor.) Despite a horrible "open" seating arrangement, there's a window about three paces from
When Is a Testimony?
Laura Pratt2017-07-10T21:12:37-07:00When Did You First "Get" a Testimony? Our lesson in Relief Society last week was from the Gordon B. Hinckley manual, "The Precious Gift of Testimony." The teacher asked a question that I've
Shadows Big Enough for God to Move In
Laura Pratt2017-07-10T21:16:07-07:00Poetry and the Divine I was introduced to a beautiful poem the other day by German poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926). I can’t stop reading it, and thinking about the truths it contains. I
Thoughts on Motherhood from Not-a-Mother
Laura Pratt2017-07-10T21:18:27-07:00Happy Mother's Day? Recently there was a funny post by a well known author making its rounds on social media. It humorously addressed the seeming expectations of modern women to be the perfect mothers. The
Key to Talents and Blessings
Laura Pratt2017-07-10T21:20:03-07:00Parable of the Talents I’ve been thinking about the Parable of the Talents from Matthew 25:14-30, and I have started to see layers in it I hadn't before. Though the talents in this
Embrace Failure
Laura Pratt2017-05-01T20:57:32-07:00Embrace Failure Peter's Failure On the last night of Jesus' life, he tells Peter (in Matthew 26:33-34, 74-75) that Peter will betray Him before the sun rises the next morning. Peter cannot
Grant Space for Mortals to be Humans
Laura Pratt2017-07-10T21:21:36-07:00Mortals Are Human, Too "Certainly those who are less spiritually mature may indeed make serious mistakes—yet none of us should be defined only by the worst thing we have ever done." (2016–A:33, Kevin