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You Just Have to Love from Spring 2006

. . . I remained on my knees for a long time, pleading for some kind of solace. Finally, words of comfort came, laced with a gentle reproach. “You are not a cold–hearted mother. You are just hurt. But think how much more your son is hurting. You have friends and family who stand by you and support you. He has no one to turn to. He feels rejected by his family, by his church, and by everyone who has known him.” As I pondered this new insight, a penetrating sadness crept over me—this time for my son instead of for myself.

“But Heavenly Father,” I cried, “What can I do? I don’t understand anything about homosexuality! How can I possibly be a good mother for him?”

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by Elona Knightly Shelley

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Looking for Angels

31 October 2007 @ 23:31 | Small Epiphanies | 11 Comments

I started watching for angels six years ago.

Halloween . . . meh

31 October 2007 @ 00:00 | Small Epiphanies | 19 Comments

This year my son wanted to be an evil wizard for Halloween. Not a good wizard, or a nice little superhero–that’s last year, and the year before. No, he needed to be an evil wizard.
I said no.

When Through Deep Waters I Call Thee to Go

29 October 2007 @ 08:41 | Guest Post | 17 Comments

This is a guest post from Andrea R. She is the wife of a wonderfully supportive husband and mother of three little boys aged 5 1/2, 2 1/2, and 6 1/2 months. She served a mission to Chile and received her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from BYU. She also teaches Microbiology [...]

Everything I Need to Know I Learned from Food

26 October 2007 @ 05:42 | Book Challenge | 15 Comments

My husband visited his grandmother this week at her home in the Alzheimer’s unit of the local long-term nursing facility. It was lunchtime so he brought a sandwich, sat down beside her and began eating. And instead of dismissing him with the claim that she’ll call him later (which happened during his last [...]

Write and Remember

25 October 2007 @ 12:18 | Small Epiphanies | 11 Comments

When I was seven-years-old, my parents gave me a treasure: a pale pink diary. Shiny, dark pink daisies adorned the cover and surrounded the words, “My Daily Journal.” Even the pages were pink! There was one more detail–and probably my favorite feature–it had a lock. I was ecstatic and I wrote in it the very [...]

President Eyring: Prayer With the Intent to Obey

23 October 2007 @ 23:21 | Small Epiphanies | 5 Comments

If I ever give a talk on prayer in Sacrament Meeting, I think I’ll just spend most of my time quoting President Eyring. This is a man who knows how to pray. He prays, and his prayers get answers. But I think President Eyring’s key to getting prayers answered is knowing what [...]

Relating

22 October 2007 @ 03:53 | Segullah Article Discussions | 7 Comments

“…a few years ago…I was grouching around in a PMS snit, totally destroying the Sabbath for me and my entire family.

What We Might Be Missing

19 October 2007 @ 12:18 | Book Challenge | 19 Comments

Something has been on my mind lately. After a long hiatus our relief society is starting a book club. Last time they launched a book club in this ward one of my visiting teachers volunteered to head it up. We had more than one conversation about her difficulty in choosing books for the group.

Do you Get it?

18 October 2007 @ 06:45 | Small Epiphanies | 14 Comments

I realized something Wednesday that has probably already occurred to everyone else but me, but play along, okay?

Interview with Jacqui Larsen

17 October 2007 @ 00:45 | Artist Interviews | 8 Comments

I opened the latest issue of Segullah on a cold day in a new land surrounded by boxes and space, lots of them both. “Here,” it said on the front cover, running up the left side of the page. “Here,” it said going down on the right. I read it from cover to [...]

Spiritual Horticulture

16 October 2007 @ 07:17 | Guest Post | 22 Comments

This is a generously contributed guest post from Michelle (aka M&M). She also blogs at Prayer of Faith and Blogger of Jared.  Michelle’s motto for life is taken from a Primary song: “I Will Follow God’s plan For Me.” God’s plan for her included a mission, a graduate degree in business (a field not originally [...]

At the speed of imagination

15 October 2007 @ 09:45 | Segullah Article Discussions | 14 Comments

Our alarm clock went off at 3:51 am this morning.   I turned it off as DH dragged himself out of bed.  He was going home teaching.

Do some good this weekend!

12 October 2007 @ 14:12 | Announcements | 4 Comments

Don’t forget: Get a jumpstart on your holiday shopping by supporting the Gifts Outreach book fair at all Utah Barnes and Noble bookstores, Saturday October 13.

My Book Report

12 October 2007 @ 07:47 | Book Challenge | 5 Comments

My 15 hour book challenge turned into more like 25 hours of reading — or, rather devouring — books and articles and websites. Let’s just be honest and divulge right up front: my husband was out of town, and I wanted to have my fair share of therapeutic aloneness. Add to that my pre-schooler’s fantastical [...]

Want to write for Segullah? Read Segullah!

11 October 2007 @ 17:14 | Writing Tips | No Comments

We’ve been busy reading over the great submissions we’ve received for Roots and Branches, our Spring issue. As I sift through these writings, I think about the women behind them. Every one of them tried to put words around an important experience. Every one of them cared enough about their writing to [...]

The [Mama Trying] on the Mount

10 October 2007 @ 11:37 | Small Epiphanies | 16 Comments

Lately I have been thinking about the Sermon on the Mount—especially one verse in particular. Matthew 5:48 states: “Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.”

The Mother in Me

9 October 2007 @ 11:56 | Guest Post | 14 Comments

This is a guest post by Heidi, who lives in Los Alamos, New Mexico with her four (soon to be five) children. Originally from Logan, Utah, she graduated from BYU in 2000. She says, “My husband has affectionately nicknamed me “Bookworm” as I always have my nose in one. I’ve [...]

What might go right

9 October 2007 @ 11:08 | Announcements | 9 Comments

I was signing copies of GIFTS at a Barnes and Noble author event when a tall, brunette middle-aged woman approached the table. She peered at me and the stack of books at my elbow with curiosity.
“Do you have any friends or family members with Down syndrome?” I asked.
“No,” she said. “I’ve been lucky.”

Expressions

8 October 2007 @ 10:02 | Small Epiphanies | 15 Comments

I’m going to supersede myself, and post again. I wrote that nursing post two weeks ago, to post this morning, but haven’t been able to get General Conference out of my head. So can we talk about it?
Can I express my gratitude that for one of the first times in recent memory, I wasn’t [...]

Nursing

8 October 2007 @ 06:00 | Segullah Article Discussions | 26 Comments

In another life, I think I must be a nudist.

Sometimes

5 October 2007 @ 08:01 | Book Challenge | 6 Comments

I forget you don’t know me.
You see, if you knew me you might know that I love loud clothes and found art and street food. You might know that I’m the pessimist of the family, that no matter how old I get my mom still calls me “baby,” and that rearranging furniture is not [...]

Today

4 October 2007 @ 07:59 | Small Epiphanies | 16 Comments

Today, ‘long about mid-afternoon, something emotionally devastating happened to me. The details of it are not important. The important thing is that I was a total and complete wreck in every way. I wanted to talk about it right then with someone who loved me unconditionally, someone I could rely on to take my side [...]

What think you of the “Homeboy in the sky?”

3 October 2007 @ 08:55 | Small Epiphanies | 20 Comments

Walmart always brings out the catatonic in me. I feel glassy-eyed and once removed from the staggering array of choices, poorly lit and crowded on their shelves. So it was last evening, as I found myself facing off with a plethora of skeletons in the apparent skeleton aisle. Skeletons in cages, skeletons wearing capes, skeletons [...]

Pats on the back!

1 October 2007 @ 12:11 | Small Epiphanies | 8 Comments

Team Segullah made an impressive showing at the virtual marathon this past weekend.

Detail of painting "Letitia and Sophie" by Cassandra Barney, one of our Featured Artists of the Spring 2008 issue



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