Writing Yourself a Revelation
Three weeks in a row, I left Relief Society in tears. Nobody had said anything particularly terrible. I didn’t have a falling out with anyone. In fact, I wasn’t entirely sure what was wrong—I...
Author: Kathy
Yes, You’re Small, But Small is Not Nothing
The weekend after I gave birth, a friend sent me a poem. She’d written it months before, early in this pregnancy, on a day when I thought I might have started to miscarry. At...
6 Minutes of Silence in Relief Society
When I taught Relief Society last Sunday, we spent several minutes of the lesson in complete silence. I was assigned a General Conference talk to base my lesson on. I wanted each class member to...
February Young Women Lesson: Why Do the Choices I Make Matter?
This lesson lends itself to some interesting and honest discussion. When talking about choices, we can sometimes focus on big, obvious milestones in the future. But Young Women are making choices right now and...
How Your Faith is Like Your Childhood Bedroom
Picture your childhood bedroom. In your mind, look around that room. What do you see? What did you use or touch or see every day? When I taught Relief Society last month, I started...
When the Anxiety and Pain in the World Feel Like Too Much
Every morning, we have a dance party. My six-year-old gets ready for school and then we turn up the speakers on a song she loves—usually a silly one, like a Weird Al polka medley—and...
The Dilemma of Wanting/Ignoring Women’s Voices at General Conference
I am caught between longing and a confession. The longing: Ever since I began seriously considering women’s place in God’s plan, I have felt keenly the scarcity of feminine voices in my faith community. I...
Choosing the Crisis
I’m preparing to teach a local writing workshop, a six-week class to help some fellow writers create short pieces about a personal life event. To help me jog the faraway parts of people’s memories, I turned...
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