Gaye strathearn

I ran around the front and there was Tinker sitting on the step waiting for me. The event was very simple, and yet it has had a power impact upon my life ever since. That was even more strange. We had had dogs before, but this was the first dog that was mine.

The next morning my Dad opened the back door, but there were no sounds in the hallway and no licks to wake me up. How had Tinker known to come to the church? For three nights I went to bed not knowing where Tinker was, each night praying that Heavenly Father would help me strathearn Tinker.

I called and called, and went searching the neighborhood, but to no avail. I was about eight or nine years of age when, for Christmas, my family bought me a little dog, which I named Tinker. Gay antwerp was so excited to see him.

I grew up in a very small branch of the Church in Redcliffe, Queensland, Australia. On that day, I knew that God was real, that he lived, and that he was interested even in a kid who had lost her dog. Every day when I came home from school he was there waiting for me, so excited that I had come home.

That seemed very strange to me. Every morning, when Dad would open the back door, I would hear him running down the hall, then he would jump up onto my bed and lick me to death, telling me it was time to get up. We lived over a mile away and we had never taken him to it, and yet there he was.

Gaye Strathearn is a professor in the Department of Ancient Scripture and in the Ancient Near East Studies program at BYU. She has taught at BYU sinceincluding a year at BYU’s Jerusalem Center for Near Eastern Studies. Gaye received a testimony of a living, loving God at a young age.

Gaye Strathearn is a professor in the Department of Ancient Scripture and in the Ancient Near East Studies program at BYU. She has taught at BYU sinceincluding a year at BYU’s Jerusalem Center for Near Eastern Studies. She is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and has authored or coauthored several books and articles on biblical topics.

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Inmy friend and I went backpacking around the world and we went to Israel, where the scriptures came alive for me in a very real way as I visited some of the biblical sites. I loved him dearly. I heard cars arriving and one of my friends came looking for me.

Instead, I took the bus straight to the church for Primary. Heavenly Father had answered my prayer. In many ways, life is a lot more complicated now than it was on that day. Dr. Gaye Strathearn is a specialist on the New Testament and Christian origins and an associate professor of ancient scripture at Brigham Young University.

I always arrived before everyone else, and was around the back of the church, sitting in the shade, waiting for the others to come. She asked if it was my dog sitting on the front step of the church.