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Christmas Series: December Young Women Lesson: How Can I Invite Others to...
Click for French Translation/Traduction en français There are no Easter or Christmas-themed YW lessons and I think it’s a shame there aren’t outlines for these Sundays, especially since holidays are...
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Christmas Series: We Are The Sound Of Water
Image by Jenna von Benedikt used with permission :: Eddies of light twirl in silence when a star passes between us. Mary does her work. Joseph keeps his word. Jesus comes against odds. Daybreak moves...
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Poetry Sundays: Descending Theology: The Crucifixion
It is increasingly difficult for me to separate the miracle of Christ’s birth from the sorrow of His death. Maybe age does that to us as we move from the first half to the second half of life. Maybe...
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Memory, Traditions, Christmas
I have been thinking a lot about memory lately, and a lot about traditions. The first is because of a very big book I read out loud twice while I was pregnant, called Memory, History, Forgetting. It...
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Sacred Music Sunday: How Far is it to Bethlehem
Do you have a favorite Christmas carol? I have too many to name just one. You probably do, too. For me, Christmas music is the best thing about this season. This month the music that’s most on my...
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Tattoos and Ghost Stories
A few months ago a dear friend asked me if I had anything I’d want to contribute for a collection of essays on Primary that would be both real and uplifting. I recalled a funny and sweet memory of one...
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April Young Women Lesson: Why Was A Restoration Necessary?
Traduction en français/Click for French Translation Introduction It is easy when talking about the great apostasy and the need for a restoration of all things, to talk in terms of darkness and light....
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The Tree of Life
Mother Earth – Caitlin Connolly | A Mother Here Art and Poetry Contest When Jesus was sorrowful, and very heavy, He cried, Mommy. She came unto Him from heaven, strengthening Him. Even after they...
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Re-imagining a hymn: I know that my Redeemer lives
I’ve been thinking a lot about President Uchtdorf’s General Conference talk from several years ago entitled “You Are My Hands.” In it, President Uchtdorf tells a story of a statue of Christ that is...
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Heavenly Mother’s Day: Jehovah Speaks Of His Mother In Heaven
The Book of Jesus, Chapter 1 Jehovah Speaks of His Mother in Heaven 1. In the beginning I was The Word, creation, spoken by Mother. I was in Her, and of Her, and through Her. 2. In the beginning,...
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Comfort Food
Table for Ladies “…..and please bless the refreshments that they will nourish and strengthen our bodies and do us the good that we need……” I smirk silently, roll my eyes beneath piously closed lids and...
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November Young Women Lesson: Why is it important for me to gain an education...
From Tracy M.’s remarkable BCC post, “Young Women Values: Not Princesses & Not for the Faint of Heart Personal Progress Cards” The manual may be found here. When I was a junior in high school, I...
View ArticleTeaching No Greater Call: Writing a Spirit-Filled Sermon
“Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.” I go to church hungry every week. No, I’m not talking about fasting, but spirit and soul hungry with...
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The Lock
The Lock Every evening I brush one damp curl from my baby’s forehead And in its place leave a long, mama kiss My sweet strawberry of a boy is heavy now– All cheeks, tummy, and leg rolls To...
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Wherein we see proof that Mormons aren’t Christian
Apparently the Church has recently issued an update to the leadership handbook that equates same-sex marriage with apostasy and bars children from same-sex households from receiving baby blessings,...
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Book Review Series: Count It All Joy
Guest post by Quimby. You can read some of Quimby’s previous posts here, and here. I live in the Australian bush, in a log cabin surrounded by trees. I love where I live. I love the gentle contours...
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Lessons from the Margins: More Thoughts on “The Policy”
With the rest of Mormonism, I’ve been thinking a lot about “The Policy”. This has led me to think more deeply about the Plan of Salvation – and where we all fit. As a single woman in the church, it is...
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Reaching out for Jesus
When I was a little girl, I frequently waited for my mother in the office reception area when she had a doctor’s appointment. Over several years, from about 4 to 7 years old, I accompanied her through...
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A Hymn, Wild and Sweet
When I was in junior high my best friend’s mom decided that a group of neighborhood girls needed to go caroling. I remember being surprised at how much I loved Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s “I Heard...
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Where is the compassion?
Our Savior Jesus Christ has compassion for each one of us. We show compassion to others because it is the essence of His gospel. It’s what makes us Christian. A few weeks ago, my toddler fell and got a...
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