Journal Prompts (4/20/23) How do you handle others grief in a healthy way?

How do you handle others grief in a healthy way? In the school I work at, there was a little girl named Penny who died because of a car accident several weeks ago. I never knew her, or her family but today I’m part of a school community who are mourning her death. When IContinue reading “Journal Prompts (4/20/23) How do you handle others grief in a healthy way?”

How Do I Use Empathy to Combat Shame and Foster Charity? Journal Prompt, 4/2/23

How Do I Use Empathy to Combat Shame and Foster Charity? Throughout this last month, I’ve been feeling somewhat anxious because of family situations and depressed because I’m rather lonely. It’s been rather overwhelming when coupled with my work, calling in church, and everyday dissatisfaction with “unmet” goals and expectations. Sometimes it’s rather easy toContinue reading “How Do I Use Empathy to Combat Shame and Foster Charity? Journal Prompt, 4/2/23”

What’s something most people don’t understand? Journal Prompt, 3/30/23

What’s something most people don’t understand? I feel most people don’t understand how to take care of their spiritual health. I once heard from a church leader there are FIVE aspects of our health we need to focus on. I see people talk about physical, emotional, social, and financial health quite often now. However, itContinue reading “What’s something most people don’t understand? Journal Prompt, 3/30/23”

Fantasia (1940): My Film Experience 3.5/4

Rather than criticize things I watch and read, I want to reflect and write about my overall experiences with them using a system I’ve adopted over the years. The questions I usually ask myself are these: What did I learn? How did I feel? How did it enlighten my mind? If you are interested inContinue reading “Fantasia (1940): My Film Experience 3.5/4”

My Mission Experiences: Being called to serve!

(Church Building in Krasnadar, Russia) As many know, I lived a year and a half in Southern Russia while serving as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It was an incredible experience for me that seems impossible to really describe. I look back now on where I was before, howContinue reading “My Mission Experiences: Being called to serve!”