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My name is Sarah Johnson. I am a wife, a mother, an entrepreneur, a baker, and a friend. I write for work and I write for relief. I write for fun. When I am not writing, I am often thinking about writing. This blog is a collection of my thoughts, my heart and my faith. I celebrate my membership in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. I love people, I also love connecting with and sharing life lessons and light with people of all faiths. I enjoy cooking and baking, gardening, and being in nature.
The Holy Ghost, a constant companion.
When I was 8 years old, I entered the waters of baptism through the priesthood power which was held by my grandpa, David Evans. There were a few moments that stood out to me. First, I stood for a picture, wearing my polyester white dress in front of a painting of the Savior’s baptism in the hall at our stake center. Second, as I came out of the water, I distinctly remember feeling disappointed. I knew my sins were washed away, but what I was expecting was to feel...
Dreams on the top the mountain
I dream a lot. More often I can accurately depend on dreams to help me understand my experiences, prepare for the future, or to help me find peace with my challenges. A few nights ago I was reading my Facebook feed. The news feed has been all a twitter with gay activist celebrating the recent turn of events which has made Utah’s marriage law of one man and one woman “unconstitutional.” Because of personal experience, and my own personal grief I find this topic very emotional. I choose not...
Temple Trips and Coming Home
For many years I have lived with a desire to heal my heart from the holes created by the absence of my dad. I don’t know why it matters that he wasn’t there, because I don’t even really know much about him. I would recognize his voice if I heard it, but I don’t know how tall he was, how he walked, or what his laugh sounded like. And yet, there has been a deep emptiness inside of my heart that bubbles to the surface periodically. A deep well...
I have a problem remembering my passwords
I have a problem remembering my passwords….. too many to remember. I think that my new password is so easy to remember, and I have a system to remember it, but then it comes time to test myself, and I fail several times before getting access. Life is like remembering your password. Its okay to try and fail, its great to have tricks to remember things. Its ultimately up to me to try enough combinations until something works. Today I have failed several times in several ways. But ultimately,...
Little Things
It’s the little things that make life worthwhile. Giving the kids a bath, reassuring a child of his worth, reading a book, saying prayers. It’s the small acts of kindness that raise the standard of belief. The kindness when someone opens the door, or notices the difference of appearance. I am grateful for the little things my kids say to one another that encourage and uplift each other. I am grateful for my little ones who cling to each other in play, in work and in challenging their strength...
Autumn Playtime!
I love fall! This year I feel like I have missed it, since we had our baby. The last month I didn’t get out much since Ben is so small. We took just a few minutes out of our day to play in the warmth of autumn. I love these kids. We came to this same park last year to take family pictures. The kids remembered what game they had played, and which kid played which super hero, and what power they possessed. They picked up right where they...
Benjamin is here!
It was 2:00 a.m. on October 1st. The prior day, I had stretched my to do list long into the night, knowing that I would be delivering my son the next day. My sweet friend Ali Roberson, came over and helped me with errands. We cleaned cars, we went to the D.I. and to the grocery store. I finished some projects for work and made sure that plans were made for our children the following day. Not only that, but Jonny also discovered that our Explorer was infested with...
Everything I know I learned from my garden
I love to garden! I love the feeling of seeing my hard word bring about fruit. It is so exhilarating to go outside and witness by God’s great grace 4 ft. tall tomato plants thriving in the hot July sun! I love seeing my children discover bugs; lady bugs, grass hoppers, spiders (ew!) and potato bugs. I love trimming, pruning and weeding to show off a newly taken care of space. It makes my heart happy. Life lessons about gardening that I have learned this year: 1. You cannot...
I have an itch to be something…..
I have an itch to be something. My time seems so taken right now, and I am torn between doing too much and doing too little to fulfill my life’s work. There is a season for everything, and now my children are so small. I don’t want to miss a single moment, and yet, I feel a calling, pulling me into sharing who I am. I feel fear. I feel vulnerable, and so I stay. My heart’s desire is to write and to speak. I must become what God...
Who am I?
Who am I? The scriptures teach that Jesus was the Father, because he was Begotten, or born of the flesh as God, the Father’s off spring. He was the Father through the genetics that ran through his veins. I am my mother, I am my father. I am grandma Joy, I am grandpa David. Yet, I am also me. I am Sarah Elizabeth. I am born, I am free of my own will to choose. Today I am light. I feel full of gratitude and faith for the opportunity...
New Beginnings and Old Roots
Grandma Joy passed away on July 5th, 2011. It has been terribly hard to grieve her passing. Although I do not mourn for her, I know she is tenderly reunited with her sweet companion on the other side, I ache inside for her. As I sat in the hospital room, surrounded by my family members, I watched her mortal frame, once full of life and love, slip peacefully into silence. As her emaciated frame took its last breath, almost immediately, a bright light shone from the window. It was...
Resistance is Futile
What are you resisting? Why? Every time my husband sits down to teach me a new work skill, specifically some quite simple programming elements, my whole body cringes with frustration and rebellion. For weeks I have been avoiding, denying, procrastinating and flat out refusing to try this new skill. Inside my body is screaming, “No!!!! I don’t want to!!!” But why? What is it about this new opportunity that I resist? I pride myself on being an adventurist, an outgoing, fun loving person. So why do I challenge my...
Gratitude
Its the Sunday before Thanksgiving. It would be wrong not to stop for a moment, during my crazy life and give thanks. We have much to be grateful for. There are many life lessons that can be interwoven amongst these moments of thanks. 1. I am grateful for who I am today. We have been through some difficult struggles throughout my life. Financial, emotional, health, family, identity, death and loss. I have lived through unbelievable goodness and abundance; three healthy children, a wonderful husband, sealing in the temple, health,...
What’s the answer?
Often in life I have dallied in a world of high activity and excitement. There have been other times in my life where struggle and frustration rule out my natural state of optimism and good cheer. President Monson in his recent conference address talked about Gratitude. Gratitude is a characteristic that is most highly linked to all other Godly attributes. I am grateful for his wisdom. In our effort to have a house of order, I have been clearing my clutter. I have been organizing. Rather than feeling victimized...
Emerald Green Grass perfect matt for a baby yoga exercise
She’s sitting up perfectly now! Absolutely perfectly! Outside against the lush emerald grass, her tiny frame with plump belly happily waved and swaggered at the breeze, the soft blades under neath her, and anything else she could scrap up to her wiggling tongue. What a delight! My seven month old loved our outdoor adventure! The only thing more exciting than trying to put a brigade or wafting dandelion parachuters in your mouth would be the handful of gravel rocks that brother found around the shed. How did we end...
A week for many firsts
So, its Sunday night again. It has been a week of many firsts. Anna started second grade. My own second grade teacher was named Mrs. Sherry, she was also Solomon, my older brother’s second grade teacher. Anna’s class is one of about 7 portables just outside the school, close to the playground. We had a fun Mommy daughter date on Friday night. It was one of my favorites! We had breakfast for dinner at Village In, followed by a darling, no guilt, cry a little movie, “Ramona and Beezus.”...
Time Changes with Age
Time changes with age. It goes faster, it is more precious, it is more reflective, it is more full. It is less wasted, it is less taken for granted, it is never boring, it is never enough. Time is anticipated with more hope, more dependence, more consequence. Time used to be filled with space, with time to think about how slow time was taking, but now it doesn’t. Time used to elongate, with slowly ticking clocks, painful passing of weeks and months, in anticipation of what’s next. Time used...
6 Months Old
Happy 6 month Birthday to my baby Allyson! We celebrated tonight with a darling rendition of “Happy Birfday to you!” by Brennan and Anna at the dinner table while enjoying ripe and delicious summer peaches. I went on a walk tonight with Brennan and Allyson, the sky was alight with sunset embers, gold, purple, blue, yellow, white majestic and bountiful clouds drenching the valley and mountains in Summer goodness. I pushed the double wide stroller up the big hill to 1300 East, and we ran/walked back home again. My...
Enjoy the Journey
I was driving home from my Mom’s house tonight. She is recovering from major back surgery. To my surprise she is doing really well. Her color has come back, she is up and moving around. She even walked up Memory Grove the other day with Clark. I am very happy that she is on the road to recovery. Today I have been on the edge since I woke up. On the edge of what, I am not sure. But its a feeling that comes from not enough sleep. While...