Shelli Owen
Seeking Mr. Right
“Your love is like the morning mist, like the early dew that disappears.” (Hosea 6:4c) NOTE: The names used for friends and peers in...
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Shelli Owen
Author | Writer
“...the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea..”
(Isaiah 11:9b & Habakkuk 2:14)
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Shelli Owen
- Oct 11
Suicidal Depression
“From my youth I have suffered and been close to death... darkness is my closest friend” (Ps. 88:15-18). After Mack[*] broke things off,...
Shelli Owen
- Sep 23
The Inverse Kingdom
“It will be said on that day, ‘Behold, this is our God; we have waited for him, that he might save us. This is the Lord; we have waited...
Shelli Owen
- Sep 18
The Biggest Breakup
“...You, LORD, have helped me and comforted me.” (Psalm 86:17) I didn’t think anything could hurt so much. Never in my life had I...
Shelli Owen
- Sep 9
GENDER: “Weal or Woe?” Series
“So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith, for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with...
Shelli Owen
- Sep 1
The Lowdown on High School
“What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun.” (Eccl. 1:9) To...
Shelli Owen
- Aug 25
Spiritual Optometry Revisited
“Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eyes are healthy, your whole body also is full of light. But when they are unhealthy, your...
Shelli Owen
- Aug 18
Vain Employments
"For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—comes not from the Father but from the...
Shelli Owen
- Aug 11
RELIGION – “Weal or Woe?” Series
(Revised 8/29/2023) “If someone comes to you and preaches a Jesus other than the Jesus we preached, or if you receive a different spirit...
Shelli Owen
- Jul 28
LDS Seminary & Being "Born-Again"
“You should not be surprised at my saying, ‘You must be born again.’” ~ Jesus (John 3:7) Something I didn’t realize until later in my...
Shelli Owen
- Jul 19
Believing God’s Promises—Just As I Am
The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!” (John 1:29, 36)...
Shelli Owen
- Jun 30
Boyfriends and Dating: the beginning of my career
“Even small children are known by their actions, so is their conduct really pure and upright?” (Proverbs 20:11) NOTE: Again, names have...
Shelli Owen
- Jun 23
ACADEMICS – “Weal or Woe?” Series
“Mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud,...
Shelli Owen
- Jun 9
Church “Friends” and Trust
“If an enemy were insulting me, I could endure it; if a foe were rising against me, I could hide. But it is you, a [person] like myself,...
Shelli Owen
- Jun 2
Jesus Knows (or Jesus' Empathy)
“I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither...
Shelli Owen
- May 26
Family Excursions
“The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.” ~ Edna St. Vincent Millay Is the above...
Shelli Owen
- May 20
SOCIAL JUSTICE – “Weal or Woe?” Series
“Help, Lord, for no one is faithful anymore; those who are loyal have vanished from the human race.” (Psalm 12:1) Not long after we were...
Shelli Owen
- May 13
Beginning the Study of “Greater Things” (Scripture reading and study)
“You study the Scriptures diligently because you think that in them you have eternal life. These are the very Scriptures that testify...
Shelli Owen
- Apr 28
Life Outside of School
“Ears that hear and eyes that see— the Lord has made them both.” (Proverbs 20:12) What is real and what is not? All my school years,...
Shelli Owen
- Mar 31
School and Riding the Bus
Is there anything of which one can say, “Look! This is something new”? It was here already, long ago; it was here before our time....
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