enLIGHTen
A weekly podcast discussing art, creativity and partnering with God to develop and use our gifts for good.
Episodes
Creativity is a way to partner with God, to testify of Christ, to build up God’s kingdom, to find joy in life, to find resilience through trials and to Glorify God! When we are being creative, we partner with God and can fight compulsion consumption and comparison!!! Some gifts we talked about: Storytelling Record keeping Writing Cooking to keep our bodies healthy and take better care of them. Following inspiration and revelation a...
Today I got to sit down with mother and violinist Lauren Smith to talk about the many impossible dreams which our God fulfills as we seek Him. Whether its the mountains in our lives, a rocky period, or just the unknown His love moves and transforms what was once stone into windows for His light to pour through
Today my dear friend Cassie Shepherd and I had the most wonderful time discussing Hobbits, Doors and the great adventure we discover living in God . It seems that all great stories reflect the one greatest story of them all and wherever our path made lead as long as go through the one true door we will find our way both "there and back again"
God has such a generous, giving, parent-heart—and He loves to shower us with His light and love. 💛 Today I got to sit down with my Boston friend Portia Thompson and talk about these incredible gifts—and how we can prepare our hearts to receive them. 🎁 So much of this journey is simply letting God: be more, do more & love more than we ever imagined He would…or thought we deserved.
The gifts don’t always have to look like wha...
What a remarkable reunion & discussion with one of my former missionaries in Bulgaria, Elder Travis Wolsey, as we talked about making Jesus and His eternal light the center of our lives . How amazing that as God prepares the world for Jesus to return He begins by preparing us in our hearts and souls to know and feel Him . So that even as things get chaotic around us He who set the stars in the sky can bring order, light and His...
What a fun-filled hour we had today with Barbara Morgan Gardner talking about the Savior's and stories in preparation for the His Second coming.
It turns out that Sharing is Preparing and in these Last Days God is most interested in how we connect with Him and use what He gives us to help and bless others.
Our gifts of kindness, hospitality, listening, and Sharing His Love and His Light not only brighten the world but allow God t...
Wow...just feeling so much like going out to share the Savior by serving His children following this inspiring discussion today with Shannon Rasband Norton. Putting our lives in God's hands and then using what He's given us to do His work to trust His plan& bless His children is where TRUE JOY comes from. Because this is where we begin to see a little better and feel what Jesus Himself sees in and feels about each of us. And wh...
What a beautiful heartfelt discussion today with my dear friend Crystal Nelson as we talked about the power that comes of trusting Christ to make us whole. Sometimes this kind of faith and trust comes when life feels really dark and it doesn't feel like we have a lot to offer. The wonder of His love though is that the moment we allow Him we choose Him we offer Him what little we can muster He fills it with all that He is. The empti...
What an inspiring hour today with fellow patriot Chaunntel Pettit on enLIGHTen as we rememebered a number of the women patriots whose lives of virtue and courage inspire us to live more fully for our freedoms. We discussed the link between virtue, freedom and divine power. And how it is our thoughts where we might most effectively grow in capacity for virtue and Confidence to walk with God
Waiting on a miracle?
Those are often some of the most powerful periods for learning to trust God.
We know we need God's help.
He sees and knows our situation.
And in this waiting place we discover our relationship & our faith with Him growing stronger.
Join us for a beautiful enLIGHTen discussion with my wonderful guest Morgan Jones Pearson as we relive the miracle of raising Jairus' daughter and the tender power we trust so w...
What exactly is living water? Perhaps something like liquid light. And how is it when we drink we are filled beyond anything we could have imagined? And yet we desire to feel and receive more from that source of every good thing We know where the well is and the invitation is to everyone. May we come and drink freely until the water springs from within us!
What does it feel like to Receive Christ's Light with open arms? And as He fills our hearts, imagine the miracles, as we keep those arms WIDE OPEN open and extended to share Him with those we love most in the world.
What an Illuminated morning with Brenda Smart as we discussed: Windows & Water, Hearts & Christ centered-Homes, Receiving, Seeking & the wondrous renewal available through the Perfect Light of JESUS!
Can Christ make us whole, even as we wait for ultimate healing?
Can His grace apply deliver us IN our afflictions even if He hasn't yet delivered us FROM them?
How can faith and focus change even the most trying circumstances?
Join us on enLIGHTen this week as we discuss these questions and the power available to all of us through our faith in Christ.
What a brilliant discussion today with Tanna Fox as we talked about all sorts of beautiful connections between the temple & the telescope. The more we LOOK for God, the more His LIGHT enters our lives. We come to SEE him through His covenants. The instrument, the focus, the lens and the coating they all matter
Today we talked about the Exodus pattern of bondage and deliverance found in all of scripture. Following deliverance we often draw closer to God by remembering Him & praising Him & trusting Him through the wilderness. Eventually the promised land will be on the horizon, but in the meantime we get to walk with Him and to learn of Him every day!
What a Jesus-filled morning with Professor Anthony Sweat who is also an accomplished artist
. We talked about the incredible connection between repentance & joy . Christ's joy is seeing us change, transform, growing in love and light and becoming new through His gift to us . And our joy is to run to those open arms and receive it every day
We had a wonderful kind of mission reunion today with guests Saren Loosli and Deborah Dushku who were both Sister missionaries in Bulgaria when I first joined the church Within the context of missionary work and the gathering of Israel We talked about what it means to create a feeling of belonging in our community of faith. Much of that connection begins as we learn & remember how deeply and belovedly we belong to Jesus Christ...
So much Joy and Jesus on our podcast today with guests John Hilton III and Lani Hilton as we talked about the our celebrations of Christ's atonement at Easter Sunday, Palm Sunday, Thomas Sunday and every Sunday.
There is so much to be gleaned about the and nature of our LIVING LOVING Savior as we ponder and talk and sing and testify of the events surrounding His sacrifice and resurrection . "Greater love hath no man than this, th...
What a profound and joyful Holy Week discussion today with Shima Baughman.
We discussed the power of God's love to save through our willingness to turn, to hold on & to receive Him . We can't always see our way clear of how things will work out. But, when underwater it is enough to just hold on to Him until we are pulled clear.
He is risen with Healing in His Wings . His blood and His love turns back death and all darkness prot...
What a fun hour today with Amanda @oil.in.my.lamp & Susan Stilovich @sstilovich as We talked about the the kinds of hugs that only God can give and what it means to connect to Him, to be with Him & to be loved by Him through our prayers
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