Author Archives: Kim Hofhiens
Romantic Love
We all want true love – that special someone who will share our hopes and our dreams. That person we can grow old with, the one person who knows us at our worst, and rejoices with us at our best. We all want that happily ever after. Unfortunately for many of us, happily ever afterContinue reading “Romantic Love”
To the Osprey
You can see the osprey nest from our deck. Have you ever seen a baby osprey? Come and look through the telescope. You’ll see the chick. He’s so ugly, he’s cute. He has a scrawny neck. Can you can see him? It’s that tiny head peaking up over the edge of all that nesting wood.Continue reading “To the Osprey”
Happy Birthday, America!
In the last 245 years much has changed in the wonderful United States of America. An apostle of God, Elder Dallin Oaks, encouraged us in April 2021 to “trust in the Lord and be positive about [our] nation’s future.” The following are suggestions he made on how we can support our divinely inspired constitution. Pray:Continue reading “Happy Birthday, America!”
Love, Sweet Love
It is exciting to see two people make an eternal commitment to each other. Romance is a big part of courtship, but in the years to come it will all come down to Love. “Love is the will to extend one’s self for the purpose of nurturing one’s own or another’s spiritual growth. Love isContinue reading “Love, Sweet Love”
Challenges
Enchanted Rock is a pink granite stone, an ancient magma chamber that rises out of the Texas Hill Country, a testament to the volcanic activity of the past. One spring day our little family climbed it. My husband carried the baby while I helped Jordan, our 4 year-old son, and Jessica our 6 year-old daughter.Continue reading “Challenges”
Shoes and Ministering
In 2019 Eliud Kipchoge ran an amazing marathon in just under 2 hours! He did it wearing the controversial Nike ZoomX Vapor Fly Next%. This shoe is equipped with a full length carbon fiber plate that flexes to provides propulsion with each step. It is the fastest running shoe ever made. As soon as KipchogeContinue reading “Shoes and Ministering”
ROBINS
…BUILD a nest each year. Driven by instinct they mate and raise their chicks, often in the same location year after year. This practice leads to yearly nesting grounds. Unfortunately, the yearly nesting ground was my staircase. I didn’t want a mess on the stair again, so I began a campaign to pull down theContinue reading “ROBINS”
Middle-grade
Middle grade fiction is for children ages 8-13 years. These years are important in the continued development of a healthy young person. Events that happen now will help them chart their course as they continue on their life’s journey. One summer, when I was 11 years old, I swam in Lake Pend Oreille in NorthernContinue reading “Middle-grade”
Before and After Life
“Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting:The Soul that rises with us, our life’s Star,Hath had elsewhere its setting,And cometh from afar:Not in entire forgetfulness,And not in utter nakedness,But trailing clouds of glory do we comeFrom God, who is our home:” William Wordsworth (1770-1850) As Covid-19 has spread its deadly effects throughout theContinue reading “Before and After Life”
