by Alison Palmer

I love the innocence of youth. Unfortunately, the rising generation is faced with more hate, cruelty, and selfishness than this world has seen in a very long time. In a world that is becoming more violent and unfeeling every day, what can we do to teach our children that there is a better way?

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by Tina Scott

As I mentally picture the Savior on the cross, I remind myself that this was the pinnacle gift in Jesus’ remarkable legacy of love. I want to have his patterns of kindness ingrained deeply in my heart. I want to use them in dealing with my family and friends; thus continuing the legacy of love He initiated.

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by Danielle Ellis

“Motherhood Matters,” says Jane Clayson Johnson. “I really feel like this is the message I was born to give.”

It’s a message that has been hard won.

As a college student, Jane Clayson laid out her life’s plan on paper. It included finding a great husband to marry just after her BYU graduation, then a happy life at home with her eternal companion and a brood of five children. But despite her faith, prayers and righteous action, her life took turn after turn that seemed to be leading her farther away from her goal instead of closer to it.

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By Gail Jackson

I think my mother was fairly typical of the mothers of her day – she wasn’t employed outside the home, she did all the housework wearing a printed cotton “house dress,” sensible shoes and white cotton ankle socks. We were a one car family and she didn’t even know how to drive.

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by LaRae Free Kerr

If our ancestors had only stayed put. In one spot. For generations. Our hunts for them would be so much easier. But just like people of this age, they moved all over. A very old genealogy “rule” said ancestors probably stayed within twenty miles of their birthplace. Well, we know better now. Our ancestors were a movin’, groovin’ bunch.

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