On Aging: A Poem for My Daughters
“You don’t look your age,” they say, When I reveal that I’m forty-two. But my body has begun to betray me. Gray hair is just the beginning: Reading glasses. Body, back, and foot aches....
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A Matriarchal Blessing
(A written prayer, a sort of love letter.) Dear Søren, I bless you with the love I have for you as your mother, my faith in Jesus, and the hints of priestesshood that are...
Book Review: The Sacred Gift of Childbirth
Many books teach and focus on the health and safety of giving birth, from comfort techniques to medical procedures. But few delve into God or His principles and plan for women. Childbirth offers a...
Telling the Story of Grief (from the series: Single and Married in the LDS Church)
by Julie Lefgren Lately, I have had several conversations with my fellow single friends over the loss we feel from not marrying young or having the children we planned for. As I mourn with...
Birth and the Unknown
I was fairly certain that God had abandoned me. Perhaps I had done something wrong. Perhaps all of those questions made me unworthy. Perhaps I simply wasn’t able to access the Divine. It was the same despondency...
A few thoughts on Mary, pregnancy, and making room.
I. The night I told my father I was pregnant with my first babe, he had a dream. The tiny child inside of me was a girl who would grow up to be great...
Claim your blessing!
Because children are baptized at age 8 rather than as infants, the Mormon version of a baby’s christening (blessing) is not considered a saving ordinance on their behalf. The LDS interpretation of this ritual...
Sacred Music: Eliza R Snow and A Mother There
This image is one that will be in the upcoming EXPONENT II COLORING BOOK (look for it later this year). It is Eliza Roxcy Snow writing her famous hymn: “O My Father”. Eliza had...
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