Ashley > Recent Status Updates

“I would desire that ye should consider on the blessed and happy state of those that keep the commandments of God.”

“Enduring to the end is actively and intentionally repeating the steps in the doctrine of Christ.”

“If being a member of this Church becomes too easy, testimonies will become shallow, and the roots of testimony will not go down into the soil of faith as they did with our pioneer forefathers.”

Not accepting the “I’m not sure if Salt Lake has any skyscrapers” slander. SLC has multiple 300+ feet buildings. The more you know!

“He felt so real, so possible.”

An MC that vapes or smokes is automatically 10% more unlikable

“Do all this without grumbling or disputing.” Philippians 2:14

“There are times when we may need to leave the dishes in the sink and go for a walk or hang out with our friends or play with our kids or take a nap.”

“Yet our patience does not make us passive about the brokenness of the world.”

“I always felt like I was waiting for the gift. But I’ve come to see that waiting is the gift. In waiting, God has met [you] and sown in [you] things that only grow with time—with changing seasons and bated breath.”

“God delights in the perfect acoustics of ocean waves, swoons over the subtle intensity of dark chocolate, and glories in robins’ eggs and peacock calls. God has a childlike wonder. Children never tire of beauty and pleasure. They embrace enjoyment with abandon. They don’t feel guilty about taking time to search for feathers, invent a game, or enjoy a treat.“

“We need to learn the slow habits of loving God and those around us. Like liturgy, the work of cleaning draws much of its meaning and value from repetition, from the fact that it is never completed, but only set aside. Both liturgy and “domestic” work also have an intense relation with the present moment, a kind of faith in the present that fosters hope and makes life seem possible in the day-to-day.”

“Examining my daily liturgy as a liturgy—as something that both revealed and shaped what I love and worship—allowed me to realize that my daily practices were malforming me, making me less alive, less human, less able to give and receive love throughout my day. Changing this ritual allowed me to form a new repetitive and contemplative habit that pointed me toward a different way of being-in-the-world.”

“God is forming us into a new people. And the place of that formation is in the small moments of today.”

2 Nephi 13:10 “Say unto the righteous that it is well with them; for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.”

“Eucatastrophe, in Tolkien’s words, is “the good catastrophe, the sudden joyous ‘turn.’ ” In mine, it’s the moment in a story where, when it seems like all is lost, that things are going to be awful forever, that the only possible endings are full of misery and despair, something good happens.” Everything works together for your good! Adore this book for using Anne of Green Gables to illustrate this.

This book taught me that “I know I shall probably never see him again, but I cannot bear to think that he is alive in the world and thinking ill of me.” is from the 1995 BBC Pride & Prejudice and ISN’T IN THE BOOK AT ALL?? Gun to my head I would’ve said that line was in the book even having read it multiple times. WHAT??

2 Nephi 10:23 “Therefore, cheer up your hearts, and remember that you are free to act for yourselves–to choose the way of everlasting death or the way of eternal life.”

2 Nephi 10:17 “For I will fulfill my promises which I have made unto the children of men, that I will do unto them while they are in the flesh”

2 Nephi 10:14 “For he that raiseth up a king against me, shall perish, for I, the Lord, the king of heaven, will be their king, and I will be a light unto them forever, that hear my words.”

“I doubt he’d have the strength.” “For her, he’d find it.”

“It’s weird, all the things that go into that feeling of being home. And then it’s strange have to change it.”

“Maybe the priests did know what they were doing. Maybe Mount Eskel didn’t need a princess, just an academy.” God works in mysterious ways & everything works together for your good 🙂‍↕️

“Forget the prince and enjoy yourselves.”

“Unhappiness can’t stick in a person’s soul when it’s slick with tears”

“Don’t hesitate if you know it’s right.”

“If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.”

2 Nephi 4:35 “God will give liberally to [them] that ask him. Yay, my God will give me, if I ask not amiss.”

2 Nephi 4:26-30 “Why should my heart weep and my soul linger in the valley of sorrow? Why should I give way to temptations that the evil one have place in my heart to destroy my peace and afflict my soul? Awake, my soul! No longer droop in sin. Rejoice, O my heart, and give place no more for the enemy of my soul. Cry unto the Lord: I will praise thee forever; yea, my soul will rejoice in thee.”

2 Nephi 4:4 “Inasmuch as ye shall keep my commandments, ye shall prosper in the land; and inasmuch as you will not keep my Commandments, ye shall be cut off from my presence.” The opposite of being cut off from God’s presence is dwelling with God, not material earthly success!