Pretention
It’s easier to pretend that this is what i wanted.My life is good. And I did dreamOf this.I dreamt, too, of more. But when people ask, I say “I’m very blessed”, because I...
Category: Belief
Sparking Sorrow
With Marie Kondo’s show on Netflix, I finally decided to read her book and fold my clothes up tiny and pass along my unused items. Our whole family is participating and it’s definitely going...
Guest Post: The Sermon on the Mississippi
by Elle Mae “The Sermon on the Mississippi” I will look elsewhere for God. I don’t know if She is here anymore. But I remember seeing Her in the flickering fireflies swirling around my...
Deconstructing the P word
About 30 years ago a Utah Valley area authority was giving a talk to a large audience. He spoke of attending a sacrament meeting where a newly baptized family, consisting of parents and several...
Sacred Music Sunday: I Saw a Mighty Angel Fly
Most of the hymns I select for this series are general Christian hymns that I love but that aren’t familiar to a wider LDS audience. However, today I’m sharing a very Mormon hymn –...
A sampler of life right now.
By LMA May 2019 I’ve written on the blog before about my mental health background and the work I do in therapy. I have pretty severe complex post-traumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD). In my therapy...
Guest Post: State of Grace
by Lisa Stewart Recently, I was perusing Facebook when on the Exponent II discussion page a story in a talk given by President Nelson in 2001 regarding a family rafting trip was shared. In...
Mormon Feminist Liturgies: A Toast to Our Mother Eve
A few years ago, I had the opportunity to lead a welcoming ritual at the opening of a Mormon feminist retreat. I left things to the last minute and ordered feminist theologian Rosemary Radford...
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