Segullah

LDS women blogging about the peculiar and the treasured

For anon 27 on the birth control post

..who wrote the following: I am thankful for the combined RS/priesthood meeting we had Sunday that was about using the internet…which prompted my husband to check my kids’ search histories.
I say I’m thankful, but I am also devastated. And now we have found out my teenage son has a porn addiction.
I can’t really tell anyone. [...]

O Remember, Remember

About a month ago one of our ward missionaries sent me an email explaining that they are getting ready to launch a missionary blog and asking if I would write down my conversion story for them to post.
I agreed, and though I haven’t started writing it yet, I’ve been thinking a lot about it since [...]

I disagree with Bruce R. McConkie

Yesterday in Institute, we were talking about the premortal existence, and the nature of intellegience. We talked about everything from eternal natures to foreordination to Mozart. It’s a heavy topic on the best of days, and I’ll admit to a niggling feeling all throughout the lesson. I tried to contain myself, but [...]

pieces

I felt the tooth crack, and then shatter like a stone in the garden. Salt Lake’s finest and oldest buildings are formed from Rocky Mountain granite and yet one quick blow from my shovel fractures the rock into tiny grey and white crystals.
Spitting the fragments into my palm my tongue probes the hollow– how will [...]

Conference Feast

So what did you love about General Conference?
What filled your soul, prompted you toward change, strengthened or inspired you? What did the talks commit/recommit you to do? Do you have any plans to implement new things in your lives and homes?
Come discuss the richness! Share!

Consumed by Entitlement

Today’s  guest post comes from the endearing and committed, Jenny Whitcomb, a delightful Massachusetts-living mother of six, known for making sculptures out of her teenage son’s messy room and always infusing her mothering with humor and creativity. She enjoys life’s simple pleasures like grape laffy taffy and marathon soaks in the tub.
A week ago I attended a meeting where [...]

All the World’s a Critic

Have you heard the three rules of human relationships?
First, don’t criticize.
Second, don’t criticize.
Hmm, and what’s the third one again?

Create! President Uchtdorf– a multimedia presentation

You’ll cry. I promise, you will cry.
lds.org put together a short film with photos, music and President Uchtdorf’s inestimable words.  Be sure to read the instructions for downloading and share this with your friends, neighbors, EVERYONE. CREATE.

Pharoah’s Dream

Most likely, you remember this talk of President Hinckley’s, it was just weeks after September 11th, 2001 and given in the Sunday morning session– the session where the prophet speaks to the world. We had a renewed hunger for prophetic counsel that fall and waited eagerly in our homes and halls for his comfort and [...]

the place in between

Nothing gets those hands flying in Relief Society like a question about apostasy. Our instructor is a lovely woman but she couldn’t control the poisonous labels flung toward the chalkboard– Prideful! Materialistic. Angry. Bitter. Dark. Adulterous. Unfaithful!
I twisted anxiously in my seat, staunching the temptation to scan the faces around me, because who knew–who could [...]

Has the counsel changed?

My entire life hinged on a single sentence. “And in your schooling prepare yourself to be a mother in Zion, for this is your role in life.” Less than a page and generic in almost every way, my patriarchal blessing contained just this one startling admonition. I was stunned, humbled, disappointed. Academics were my [...]