Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Book Review


We Lived In Heaven

by Sarah Hinze

Your personal beliefs about the pre-earth life will be strengthened by reading this newly published book entitled, We Lived in Heaven by author Sarah Hinze. It was about ten years ago a friend shared with me a special experience that she said happened to her before she was born. I had never heard anything like it, but the feeling I had as she spoke was a witness to me that what she was saying was true. Although, I won’t share that particular experience here I will say that We Lived in Heaven is a book filled with moving experiences similar to my friend’s. It is a lovely book about spiritual accounts of souls coming to earth.

The stories give me tingles! Like the story about a mother, who is in a terrible plane crash. She sees her unborn son, not born until years later, and his presence influences this mother to hang on after a near-death experience and continue her earthly mission despite pain and intense rehabilitation. Page after page, and story after story reveal real accounts of ordinary women, just like you and me, who have extraordinary experiences with beings on the other side of the veil.

Another touching story involves a woman who writes a letter to her son whom she is giving up for adoption. It is absolutely beautiful! And there are others, including a story about a kidnapped child who survived her ordeal by the guiding hand of the baby sister who would be born years later. Amazing!

This heart-warming book would make the perfect mother's day gift (don’t tell my mom but this what she’s getting!)  So, if you need a spiritual up-lift that gives you a sense of being part of something greater than the here- and-now, this is the book for you!


My favorite quote from the book sums up its beauty:

“Everything in our life happens as though we entered upon it with a load of obligations contracted in a previous existence . . . obligations whose sanction is not of this present life, [which] seems to belong to a different world, founded on kindness, scruples, sacrifice, a world entirely different from this one, a world whence we emerge to be born on this earth, before returning thither.” –Marcel Proust

You can find out more about Sarah Hinze, her book and her research on pre-birth experiences at http://sarahhinze.com/. We Lived in Heaven is available in bookstores and online.

Sunday, April 1, 2012

Activity Handouts -- More Precious Than Rubies

for an upcoming RS or YW activity?




These beautiful white roses with jeweled tags highlighting the scriptures from Proverbs are the perfect idea.

Recently, I spoke at a Bluffdale Ward Relief Society birthday social.
Their theme was "Who Can find a Virtuous Woman". 

These roses doubled as the centerpiece and the take-home goodie at the end of the evening.

I LOVED the idea and had to share!!!