Melody

na·tiv·i·ty (n -t v -t , n -). n. pl. na·tiv·i·ties. 1. Birth, especially the place, conditions, or circumstances of being born. Dear Luke, You're a grown...

"She got up from where she was lying, stepped over them, and left those newborn-blind, helpless kittens mewing plaintively in their box. They began feeling around, smelling for her, trembling as they tried to walk on tiny paws. And she just walked away. I stopped what I was doing to watch. "

"We are all asked to bring the same thing with us when we approach the door of discipleship: a broken heart and contrite spirit."

I claimed my name – with all its sordid history—and, by so doing, I transformed it into something beautiful and ennobling for me and for my children.

LDS Church President, Thomas S. Monson, beautifully discribes symptoms of situational depression and anorexia in a young mother who is overwhelmed and unable to cope. A gift of grace - a loaf of home made bread from a stranger - provides evidence of God's love for her.

"Each soul walks this earth clothed not only in mortal flesh, but also in accoutrements of hardship, disability, distortion and corruption of truth . . . the veil of mortality separates us not only from the presence of God, but also from ourselves and from each other."

Mother’s Milk a poem about God the Mother   I miss Her breast today; her heart, pulsing against my cheek.   She unlatched me; gave me to the care of my brother, her firstborn...

"All she was doing was surviving her own journey. And writing a few words about it. That’s all any of us can do. We are all pioneers. . ."