Author Archives: Carrie Bigley

Today was a hard blog day for me. I have committed to writing blogs as often as possible and recently I have found myself in a rut. This is nothing new for me, last year I actually quit writing, I told my mission family I was done forever. Naturally, as this year started I decided to give it a go again, and somehow had managed to crank a few out. But today is different. Today I know exactly why I’m in this rut. It’s all due to a big blue book that is staring me down from across the table. I

I heard a story recently about an orphanage in a third world country. They had run out of food and the kids were going to go without dinner. The director decided to use it as a teaching opportunity, he called in all the kids and asked them to sit at their tables. He then told them they had no food and they needed to pray that someone would bring them dinner. As the kids started praying one little boy approached the man and asked what kind of food to pray for. The man then replied that they should

Lately I’ve been really caught up in my past. In my prayer I have been led to healing and to forgiveness of a lot of things I have been holding on to. A few days ago I heard a friend talk about some of his favorite childhood memories which got me thinking about mine. Now most people say I have a great memory.  I remember conversations in great detail.  Past events are easy for me to recall. But as I start thinking about my past I noticed myself going straight to all my negative memories from

Is there such a thing as joy in suffering? Until recently I thought there wasn’t or that it was something only the saints obtained, but oh, how I was wrong. I want to take you back to summer. I had such an amazingly blessed summer that I never got to share because I was so busy, but now that I have some time here it goes. This summer I had the joy of being a prayer warrior and part of the first ever summer staff traveling team. I traveled nineteen states with thirteen people in a fifteen passenger