Seeking Earnestly the Best Gifts
What does it mean to have power? What does it mean to em-power? What makes a person powerful and why?
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What does it mean to have power? What does it mean to em-power? What makes a person powerful and why?
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March is National Woman’s History Month, so we thought we would highlight some LDS Women and their contributions to birth and mothering! Look for a post at least once a week. Make sure you also celebrate the history you are making in your life!
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Keep busy in the face of discouragement -Susa Young Gates I couldn’t resist writing a little about Susa Young Gates. Susa was the 41st child born to Brigham Young, daughter to Lucy Bigelow Young. She was mother to thirteen children, only four of whom lived to adulthood. She was a gifted stenographer, writer, poet, and
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Not long ago I heard a comment from a woman that went something like this: “I have been really appalled to hear so many of my friends talk about their “experience” giving birth. It seems to me that they are so preoccupied with making sure that they have a good experience that they don’t think
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With Pioneer Day approaching I wanted to share a birth story from one of our pioneer sisters. I was pleased to find something that Emmeline B. Wells wrote. There are so many titles and achievements attached to our 5th General Relief Society President: writer, poet, pioneer, teacher, leader, political activist, women’s suffragist, and mother.
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With all that has been said about the mommy wars recently, I wanted to highlight what Elizabeth Cady Stanton, women’s rights pioneer and philosopher, shared about one of her births: “I never felt such sacredness in carrying a child as I have in the case of this one. She is the largest and most vigorous baby I
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