We don’t get to pick and choose what miracles we will be given, but we need to make sure we remember the ones we have receive...
I want to support our bishops who work so hard on our behalf, often with inadequate training and burdened with high expectation...
Imagine that you are at for a funeral. Do you ask a lot of nosy questions about the death? Or do you mind your own business and...
If you focus on the positive, you will have good feelings about the subject of your focus. If you look for the negative, it wil...
Sometimes slights and hurts are so very real and intentional that no amount of positive thinking can convince us otherwise. We ...
Nephi didn’t say “I will go and try," he said, "I will go and do." Yoda said, "Do or do not. There is no try." Perhaps Yoda...
Most days I have as much chance of someone saying I was the most gracious person they knew, as I do of someone saying that my h...
“Ray, you just told Henry Wadsworth Longfellow to take a postman and shove it where the sun don’t shine."...
I have a confession to make. I dislike election years. Candidates say unkind things about one another, going out of their way t...
I came away wishing I’d had the courage to ask the woman one simple little question. “Do you know the janitor’s name?”...
“Are you a working mother?” is a question that often raises resentment either way you answer it....
How much of our lives do we spend accumulating things—and then administering to them—dusting them, sorting them, displaying...
Now that we communicate differently, even swear words have entered the digital age....
Sometimes in life you really do need the milk before the meat....
Should pantyhose for women be a requirement for Church attendance? L’eggs and Hanes would be happy....
Sometimes life delivers things you could not possibly put in a book because people would say “Life just doesn’t work that w...
It was an embarrassing moment--to stumble by someone doing a small act of kindness for me and not noticing....
Can a pile of dirty dishes, a cluttered closet, or a sticky floor?...
In a world that emphasizes your outer beauty regime, here are some more important tips about developing spiritual beauty....
As a writer, one of the last things I want to hear is that any of my characters is a stereotype—a typical, predictable, one-d...
We have simply got to stop comparing our talents, our homes, our looks. All comparisons do is either make you haughty or hesita...
Susan Law Corpany’s article, “I Am that I Am and You Aren’t”, about inappropriate ways to comfort the grieving has bee...
Please don’t try to comfort people in a time of loss with a statement that sounds like you have an inside track on God’s in...
The bay where Susan Corpany’s Hawaiian home sits was just hit by a tsunami. ...
The JayBeeGeeBees is a condition you really want to catch....
One thing you can be sure that you will never do, walking down the street someday is meet another you....
In preparing my talk on “Love your enemies”, I went over my own personal list of people I struggle to love and realized tha...
I can only imagine the first Christmas if Mary and Joseph were under the some of the influences of the world today....
Remembered Christmases still bring a smile....
How often we fail to listen to how it feels to be in somebody’s shoes because we are too busy giving them advice. ...
They say that when you have a child, forever after your heart goes walking around outside your body....
Sometimes being right isn't all it's cracked up to be....
It was Karl Marx who said that “religion is the opiate of the masses.” Okay, Karl, I admit it. I’m hooked on the stuff....
Oh, if I could be a superhero and load my spiritual utility belt with some superpowers—here’s what I’d choose....
Two fictional guest columnists from Susan’s new book have their say about forgiveness....
She was late to church when she saw the girl walking alone on the other side of the road. ...
It is an absolute necessity to prepare for live's eventualities....
One of the speakers at our son’s law school graduation addressed the soon-to-be attorneys and, among other things, suggested ...
No matter how you cut it, a vacation inspires fonder memories than a remodeled bathroom....
When something heavy was weighing on her mind, she turned to a message in the airport that seemed to be there as no accident....
Every once in a while you have one of those moments of clarity when you realize just how grateful you are for something in your...
