Mike has passed
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by Michael James Fitzgerald
2y ago
Livestream the service on September 25th, 11 AM Mountain time: bit.ly/MikeFitzgerald Michael James Fitzgerald—beloved father, friend, poet, and cowboy—passed away at his home in Santaquin, Utah, on Friday, September 17, 2021, while on his knees in prayer. Mike was born on November 14, 1957, to Robert and Jane in Multnomah County, Oregon. He was a middle child through and through, spending his boyhood riding horses, shooting skeet, roping cows, and occasionally attending Catholic school.  At times, life was cruel to him, but he never lost his tenderness. His love for the Savior and the sc ..read more
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Autumn
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by Michael James Fitzgerald
2y ago
Photo by Aaron Burden on Unsplash Have mercy upon me, O Lord; for I am weak: O Lord, heal me; for my bones are vexed. Psalms 6:2 Trees mourn as her summer children depart. Sparrows huddle to plot their escape from winter. Daisies faint, insensible to cunning frost. Emerald grass, sequined with red, yellow, and orange, welcome cooling nights. Shadows surrender to autumn memory, future and long past. Michael James Fitzgerald ..read more
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Worry
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by Michael James Fitzgerald
2y ago
Photo by Jonny Gios on Unsplash Hanging upside down in a ditch of my own digging, I find myself a temporary atheist, clinging to the very thing I don’t want, self-deprived of an unfailing Light just above me. Michael James Fitzgerald ..read more
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Lost
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by Michael James Fitzgerald
2y ago
Photo by Devin Justesen on Unsplash Forgotten, Displaced, Misguided, Disgraced. Overlooked, Twice spurned, Rejected, Unyearned. Patiently he awaits a peculiar salvation he cannot grant himself. Michael James Fitzgerald ..read more
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Update on Holly Barrett
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by Michael James Fitzgerald
2y ago
Holly Barrett. FamilySearch.com. Over a decade ago, I wrote a blog post about Holly Barrett who died in 1969 at the age of 14, mysteriously until now. Here’s an update to that post. After years of wondering, I heard from one of Holly’s nieces recently and learned of her sad ending. She was a special young woman who contracted leukemia—likely due to being a Nevada bomb-test downwinder. Chemotherapy in the 1960s was hard on her young body and she died of heart failure in a Salt Lake hospital. Her parents were in the grocery business and they named Holly’s Pantry, a convenience store in Salina, U ..read more
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A Long, Slow Life Review
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by Michael James Fitzgerald
2y ago
I’m sure most of you are familiar with the phrase “my life flashed before my eyes.” This phenomena, commonly reported by near-death experiencers, is called a life review and involves a movie of sorts replays all the experiences of life, good and bad. I haven’t been well for the last year and a half, and strangely, I’ve been having my own life review on this side of the veil. Except mine is non-sequential and very slow. I’ve been surprised by all the things I’ve been recalling, which, but for the love of my Heavenly Father and Savior, would be unbearably painful. I can hardly believe what is p ..read more
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Your Inevictable Dream
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by Michael James Fitzgerald
2y ago
You’re climbing up a mountain, searching high and low, driving down the highway, learning as you go. Finding your rainbow, wrestling self-esteem, hunting for very own unquenchable dream. That dream gonna take all the love you can give every day of your life for as long as you live. So keep climbing up your mountain, dreaming as you go, burning up that old highway, taking it easy and slow. Climb up your rainbow, ford that wide stream, keep searching til you find your inevictable dream. Michael James Fitzgerald (with a lot of help from Rogers and Hammerstein ..read more
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Unseen
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by Michael James Fitzgerald
2y ago
Photo by James Fitzgerald on Unsplash Unseen except by the All Seeing. Unnoticed except by angels. Unheard except by God. Lonely but not alone. Empty but full of possibility. Forgotten but his name is written in gold. Michael James Fitzgerald ..read more
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Allegiance
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by Michael James Fitzgerald
2y ago
With hand over heart I pledge allegiance to the honest spirit who saved me from myself. And to the truth for which she stands, one warrior under God, undefeatable, with mercy and kindness for all. Michael James Fitzgerald ..read more
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“Have I Then a Mother in Heaven?”
Put on the Armor of Light
by Michael James Fitzgerald
2y ago
Zina D. Huntington Zina D. Huntington was bereft when her mother Zina Baker Huntington died of cholera in 1839: For a time, [she] was inconsolable at her mother’s death. Then [a] spiritual experience confirmed her faith. As she paced the floor, almost brokenhearted in her loneliness, she heard her mother’s voice: “Zina, any sailor can steer on a smooth sea, when rocks appear, sail around them.” Zina cried out: “O Father in heaven, help me to be a good sailor, that my heart shall not break on the rocks of grief.” A sweet peace came over Zina’s soul, and never again did she give way to such hea ..read more
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