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Making Room for Christ: A Tale of Two Innkeepers

November 30, 2025

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A few weeks ago I had a chance to attend a Jewish Shabbat at an Episcopalian Church. It was a true interfaith gathering. Rabbi Joe Charnes, a great friend of the Church of the Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, conducted the service. Rabbi Joe has spent his life exploring the comparative study of Christian and Judaism. If you’d like to read his thoughts on attending his first General Conference, click here . Rabbi Joe explained the meaning of the word Shabbat as three letters that mean stop , return , and restore . He said that our Sabbath day should be one where take the time to stop what we are doing, consider what we need to return to, and use the day to restore us. In the last LDS General Conference (October 2024), Bishop L. Todd Budge taught a similar concept. To read his full talk, click here . He taught a Japanese word mui (無為)which means “non doing” or as Bishop Budge explains, “a reminder to slow down and to live with greater spiritual awareness.” As I tho...

Jesus Wants You to Have a Happy New Year

When you hear the words, “New Year’s Resolution,” what comes to mind? Guilt? Excitement? Apathy? Energy? The emotions that come from New Year’s Resolutions might be the result of what tends to motivate you. Gretchen Rubin wrote a New York Best Seller book titled The Four Tendencies: The Indispensable Personality Profiles That Reveal How to Make Your Life Better (and Other People’s Lives Better, Too) . In this book she offers a quiz to discover what motivation works best based on your tendency. She says people tend to fall into one of four categories: Obliger, Upholder, Questioner, or Rebel. While we slide around all four of them, we tend to land in one of them most of the time. If you would like to talk the quiz and see what your tendencies are, click here. It’s completely free but does require that you submit your email to get the results. How we feel about New Year’s Resolutions can reveal our tendency. Obligers – “I don’t like to make New Year’s Resolutions. I never k...

How I Reinvented Christmas

A few years ago, I realized that I didn't feel the same joy about Christmas as my 3rd great grandmother did. After reading her journal, I knew I needed to make some changes. To read her journal entry about Christmas, click here. #1- I don’t decorate my home in Christmas colors. I just don’t like red and green, and especially when combined. I gave away most of my Christmas decorations and now I put up a tree in October that I take down in February. I call it my “Winter tree” and it is in my favorite colors of chocolate brown and Tiffany blue. It is covered with snow-themed ornaments and woodland creatures. I absolutely love it. #2- I don’t do Christmas cards anymore. Instead, I strive to write a handwritten note to each family that sends me a Christmas card. This takes me months to get done, and I don’t always get to all of them. I thank them for their card and comment on how much their family has grown (if applic...

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