The Random Musings of a Marriage and Family Major Student

I’m impressed with what Goddard talked about in his book" Drawing Heaven into Your Marriage". He talked a lot about the true purpose of marriage and how it’s a trial and a sacrifice, “Since marriage is God's finishing school, we should expect more afflictions or challenges in marriage than in any other arena of life.” Ok well that sounds a little depressing, but to me, I find it encouraging. We are bombarded by dramatic portrayals of romance in media that has given us an over-romanticized expectation of love and marriage. People go to BYU-I do, and while they are there for an education, with their Mutual account in hand, they also have dreams of meeting the one, having a beautiful Pinterest board wedding, and living happily in domestic bliss. Now not most young adults are quite like this, but we have more expectations like this than we realize, and when real marriage life hits, they are blindsided by the difficulty of it and don't know how to cope. Marriag...

I can’t decide what I want to talk about today so I’ll talk about a smattering of things.  This blog is titled random musings so I should keep with the theme. So I’m in this class that’s just entitled, Marriage, so you can guess what it’s about.  I read tons of talks, books, watch video clips, and so on about marriage. I’m learning lots of great things about marriage and I’ve been attempting to reiterate those messages through these blog posts.  But as a single person, I can’t help but take everything I’m learning and applying it to a single person's situation. It’s great to know a bunch of tips and tricks about what to do when you’re married, but you kinda have to marry someone first, and it doesn’t make sense to think you can neatly pack up what you learn about marriage in a class and only use it once the knot is tied.  Every Marriage Lesson for a single person is a lesson on dating. For some reason, I feel like lots of people view dating and marriage as sep...

Written by my sister Tanisha Jensen: The chihuahua, though aggressive and small in stature, has somehow won the hearts of people everywhere. But why? Well, there’s a story behind that. It all began a long time ago in a small village in Mexico. Back then, but not unlike today, nobody liked rats… Because of this hatred, the rats took to hiding their whole community under the hut where the villagers kept the animals. There they hid, with only the oldest and wisest of their pack daring to emerge in “the hunt” once darkness fell to scavenge for a meager portion of scraps to sneak back to their cowering families. And thus they lived, in darkness and filth, loved by none but their own. And they were content with their existence. Well, all except for one rat named Chi. Now, Chi was the oddball of the pack. While the other rats would eagerly feast on the rubbish brought in by the hunters, Chi instead crafted himself a dish out of a nutshell he found in the hut so as to not dirty hi...

Hello everyone, my name is Kira Jensen and I admit to having a crippling fear of…..toilets. More specifically, automatic toilets. Just toilets might be a stretch, but most people should at least identify with my caution towards automatic ones. They’re unpredictable! One moment you are sitting peacefully doing your business, the next a whirling typhoon complete with spray is unleashed beneath your nether regions. If you wanted that kind of experience you would have chosen a bidet. The original idea behind automatic toilets was for them to be hands-free to help with sanitation and easier use. No one wants to touch that nasty little lever that was also touched by everyone else, ever, with their nasty unwashed hands after doing what we all do in those stalls. But, like spending thousands of dollars to develop a pen that writes in space instead of just using a pencil, we just had to create a demon toilet with a mind of its own instead of just using our foot to flush. But then.. But then! T...