Several months ago one of my readers sent me this article and I thought it was so enlightening. I was going to link to it but the link where it was posted no longer works. Since this one is too good to miss I am re-posting it in its entirety here. “Women in the Image of…
Christmas time leaves me feeling a bit frazzled. I always seem to leave Christmas shopping and gifts until the last minute and end up stressing about them way more than is necessary. A few days ago it dawned on me that Christmas is not far away and that I hadn’t bought or made…
My little boy turned three this week. Time has gone by so quickly. I remember that a few weeks before he was born I spent the afternoon dipping chocolates with my Grandma. As we cooked she she shared with me her thoughts about my own father’s birth who was born just a few days before…
“And the angel said unto me again: Look and behold the condescension of God!” 1 Nephi 11:26 My oldest son was born not long before Christmas. His birth was beautiful and has forever changed my feelings about Christmas. As I stared into his sweet, pure face that first Christmas day my heart was overflowing with gratitude…
“Behold thy Son” by Lester Nielsen Several times in the New Testament Christ calls his mother, Mary, by the term “woman.” He does it at the start of his ministry, when he performs his first miracle at the wedding in Canaan. When she expresses concern that there is no wine he responds,“Woman, what have I…
Here is part two of my Breastfeeding Women in the Scriptures series. Read Part 1 here if you missed it. Hannah “For This Child I Prayed” by Elspeth Young “But Hannah went not up; for she said unto her husband, I will not go up until the child be weaned, and then I will…
“Mary and Baby” by Liz Lemon Swindle Please understand this is my story. It comes from my heart. It isn’t meant to make anyone feel bad or to influence anyone’s decisions. It is just my story, my experience, and how the Lord has softened and changed my heart. I am only sharing this because I…
I know that this is a blog on the women in the scriptures, but there is one man from the scriptures I have been thinking a lot about this Christmas. Joseph, the husband of Mary. It sometimes seems like Joseph gets swept aside in the story of the Nativity. Mary and Jesus are the main…
“According to Thy Word” by Elspeth Young used with the artist’s permission I know I shouldn’t pick favorites but the Gospel of Luke is my favorite book in the New Testament. This is because Luke includes more stories about women in his gospel than any of the other gospel writers. His account is just overflowing…
Maybe it is because I’m pregnant (23 weeks!) and this little baby is starting to kick me pretty ferociously, but this post I wrote back in 2008 has been on mind. I thought I’d share it again since it was one of my first posts. “The Road to Bethlehem” by Joseph Brickley Image Source Our…
There are some women who are going to require multiple posts because there is just so much to say about them, Mary is one of these women. This post is about the first of the many sacrifices Mary made throughout the life of her divine son, when she took her lamb as a sacrifice to…
I started writing this post around Christmas time but never finished it but better late than never… right? This Christmas the LDS church released a series of Bible videos from the life of Jesus. One of the first ones they released was a video of Elisabeth greeting Mary and Mary giving her psalm, also known…
One of the most frequently misunderstood terms in the bible is the term “help meet” in the book of Genesis. In Genesis 2:18 it says, “And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.” The common way in which the…
Elisabeth, the wife of Zacharias, became the mother of John the Baptist who was born only six months before his cousin, Jesus. Before he was even born it was prophesied by his father that John would “go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways.” (Luke 1: 76) John’s ministry among the children…
Not long ago I under took a study of the word “vessel” in the scriptures. For sometime I had been impressed by the scripture (which is repeated four times in the standard works) which says, “Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean thing; go ye out of the midst…
We don’t know much about the Mary, the Mother of Jesus but I think she may have been a musician. Perhaps not a formally trained one like we’d think of today, since it is unlikely she received much formal education. Instead I think Mary was one of those women for whom music is a natural…
There is one word in the Bible that bothered me for a long time. It was the word unclean, especially when it was used in connection with menstruation, childbirth, sexual intimacy and women’s bodies. For example in Leviticus 15 it says this, “And if a woman have an issue, and her issue in her flesh…
Tonight I am singing a solo at our church Christmas dinner for the adults. I am terrified. I’ve never sung by myself… ever. I think I’d rather speak in front of a million people than sing in front of 50, but I need to sing this song. The woman in charge of the program called…
The Temple in Jerusalem plays an important role in the New Testament. It was the center of the Jewish faith and consequently, was the center of many of Jesus’s teachings. Not only were many of Jesus’s teachings given at the temple, but his sermons were full of temple references, imagery and symbolism. 1) It was…
This Christmas season my heart is a jumble of so many thoughts about Mary. I’ve spent the last year writing about her, dreaming about her, thinking about her, and pondering on all the women and men she would have known in mortality. The more I learn about her the more astounded I am by…
I’ve been feeling a bit overwhelmed by Christmas this year. Maybe it is because we are kind of poor this year and in an effort to save money I am trying to make most of our presents– which takes MUCH more time than buying them at the store! Also, this is our first Christmas in…