November 2023 Israel-Palestine Conflict

I wrote about the Israel-Palestine conflict earlier this year. Here we are 10 months later. I encourage anyone to go read my original post. I just did. It helped me refresh in my mind the complexity of this issue. This issue clearly isn’t going away in our lifetimes. I think it’s only a matter of

Israel–Palestine Conflict

I recently went about educating myself on the current conflict in the Middle East between Israel and Palestine.  It was briefly a popular subject in the news recently.  Then, as the news is wont to do, the next hot topic came, and we didn’t hear about this issue anymore.  That doesn’t mean this is no

War or Cheesecake Factory

One morning at 7:30am I received a frantic call from my below neighbor yelling at me asking why I didn’t tell her my unit flooded.  I hadn’t had a ton of interactions with this neighbor, but this was the first time she yelled at me. I calmly replied by saying, “there hasn’t been any flooding

Second Coming is Upon Us (maybe?)

I’ve been pondering a scripture that many might find a peculiar scripture to study.  I think value can be taken from almost any scripture. 1 Nephi 18:23 reads: “And it came to pass that after we had sailed for the space of many days we did arrive at the promised land; and we went forth

Freedom

Let’s take a quick trip through history.  Bear with me on the history recap, I swear it will be brief. The Revolutionary War started in 1775.  Some rag-tag colonists decided to stand up to and fight for independence from the greatest power in the world.  I’ll say that again, a group of mostly untrained men