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Letting Go
I am a quitter. Over the course of my life, I have watched myself quit time after time, letting go of things I love, who I’ve aspired to be, and what I believe I want/need. Some of the quitting has...
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Our Matriarch
My maternal grandmother is 90 years old. She has been a widow for the past 14 years and never misses an opportunity to express how much she misses my grandfather. However, in the same breath, she will...
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Learning to Be Okay With (and Maybe Love) Mother’s Day
“I hate Mother’s Day.” I did not say this, but I have heard it uttered (both online and in person) frequently throughout the years. And the list of LDS members who utter it is very, very long: Married...
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Relating To God and All People
One of the most often-quoted scriptures in the Church is Moses 1:39, “For behold, this is my work and my glory—to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man.” We use this scripture to...
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Becoming Mother
This guest essay by Mary C. Stelter was submitted for our series on mothering. I am a mother. But before I became a mother, I had a baby. As a young newly-married woman, I longed for some feeling of...
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Truth Eternal Tells Me I’ve a Mother There
From our Separating Culture from Doctrine series, an ongoing series addressing culture and policy in our LDS communities that stem from doctrine but may not necessarily be doctrine. If you have a...
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