Finding Joy and Peace

Lisa Sommerfeldt shares the story of how her hero inspired her to do hard things and persevere. She shares how reading about her ancestors strengthened her in difficult times.  

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Teaching our children how to be resilient has become crucial if we want our children to become competent, responsible and emotionally healthy adults. Dale Munk will teach us what we need to understand about resiliency, what we need to do and what pitfalls to avoid. 

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Why do bad things happen to good people? How can there be a God when there is so much pain and sorrow and suffering in the world? Is God punishing me? An incorrect understanding of the purposes of adversity leads to frustration, despair, hopelessness and a loss of faith which may cause us to conclude that God is punishing us. Professor Kent Brooks helps us understand the answers to these questions.

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The Miracle of Forgiveness from the Podcast Series-- Seeing Gods Hand 

As we talk today we will explore how Joanna has seen the hand of God working in her life, to soften her heart and change her, and bring about reconciliation with her mother and the miracle of forgiveness.

So many of our listeners throughout the world have grown up in dysfunctional homes, and experienced emotional abuse. They are left with deep wounds and scars that are difficult to heal. Joanna’s story helps us realize that with God nothing is impossible and if we we will allow Him, God will heal our broken hearts and all our wounds. 

Read more about Joana’s story https://www.ldsliving.com/How-Family-History-Work-Healed-My-Relationship-with-My-Mother/s/86759

We referenced the book “Bonds that Make us Free” by Terry Warner and recommend it for more help with emotional healing. 

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Joy in Heroes —Not an Ordinary Woman

Since this is the first podcast in the series, Joy in Heroes, we start with the hero that inspired the creation of these podcasts and the website findingjoyandpeace.com Amanda Neff Bagely.  From the ashes of her own sorrows of losing two children she founded a maternity ward that grew to be the largest Hospital in the state of Utah.

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Podcast Series Joy in Marriage and family--Love at Home.

The love in Lia Huntington's home is so thick you could cut it with a knife! Her children adore her, are respectful, happy and competent. Why? In this podcast we pick her brain to discover what are some of the secrets behind creating love at home. 

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“Trials are not tragedies unless we make them so. They are opportunities for us to really need the Savior. In our needing Him, we come to know Him. As we come to know Him, we become like Him. However, if we do not need Him, come to know Him, and become
 like Him through our sufferings, we have just suffered in vain” (Camille Brooks)

This first podcast is an introduction to a series of podcasts titled, Sorrow Lets the Glory Out. I share one of my first encounters with sorrow and some insights that could help all of us as we face the afflictions that come into our lives. 

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