Melody
I Hope You Stay
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It’s not very politically correct these days in the feminist or progressive Mormon community to make a plea like this. We're expected to honor...
A Golden Thread
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Remember when we were children? Remember how sometimes when we were sad we stopped what we were doing, plunked ourselves down in the dirt...
Woman, Why Do You Weep?
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I weep because gross darkness covers the whole earth. I weep because daughters bear the burden of the sins of their fathers. I weep...
Coming Up for Air
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Coming Up for Air
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My little sister may not win her battle with cancer.
She says God asked her, Will you take a bullet for
your son?...
This Is Life Eternal. Right Here. Right Now.
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Victor Hugo wrote, “To love another person is to see the face of God.” I used to think this was a beautiful metaphor for the divine power of Love. Now I’m beginning to believe it is a mandate - at least for me personally: To love another person is to learn their language. To learn their language is to see a face of God that we might otherwise never have seen.
Valentine’s Day: Love and Blood and Water
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"We offer a part of ourselves as a gift in every act of kindness, without knowing how it will be received or what form it may take in the heart of the receiver. But we give because we must, because love will not stand still. It cannot."
Sacred Music: The Sound of All of Us
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"Together we are the voice of God, and to me that feels a little like home."
Birth/Rebirth: From God, Who Is Our Home
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". . . And, sister, if this is what guardian angels are, then none of us has anything to fear. They were fierce and powerful and beautiful and full of God’s love and light."