Segullah's Blog, page 17

Artist Rebecca Klundt: From Bits to Beauty

We at Segullah are thrilled to highlight in this 2021 Autumn Journal the creative genius and resourceful talents of Rebecca Klundt. You can see the thrill in Rebecca (Becky) Klundt’s face when she’s poking around in dumpsters. At one bin outside a furniture construction factory, her eyes twinkle as she yanks planks, boards, and curved...

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Safe Space

What is revealed by us when in our safe spaces? What makes a place safe? What do we say in safety and what does that mean? What happens when a space is assumed safe, by both speakers and listeners, but is not? What is my responsibility as a follower of Christ to create and sustain...

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When Someone Is Drowning: Help, Hinder, or Walk by?

When I am having problems managing my emotions, I sometimes cause a bit of a scene. Photo Credit: “* Helping Hand *” by pareeerica is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 I admire introverts for their ability to keep their conflicts well hidden. But then again, my introverted friends report this downside: stuffing emotions leads to a lot of trouble...

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It’s been 4 weeks since I fell off an e-bike and broke ...

  It’s been 4 weeks since I fell off an e-bike and broke my wrist. I believe the ER doctor, looking at the x-ray, used the words “crumbled parts”. He gave me some kind of nerve block, waited for it to take effect, then hoisted my right forearm arm, and squished it like playdough to...

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The Little Maid

This is a talk I offered in my (online) ward meeting a few weeks ago. The topic was my impressions from the previous week’s Stake Conference, but was otherwise open. The story of Naaman was shared at the Stake Conference, so I took the opportunity to share my feelings on one of my favourite females...

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Where Am I Going?

I clicked the right blinker and slowed toward the empty space two car lengths ahead. A horn blasted. I slowed more, coasting a few feet closer. The horn still blared.   I glanced in the rearview mirror and saw only the bottom of a huge front grill. No way would the vehicle on my bumper...

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Peace Is a Verb — Not a Noun

Like many LDS women, I am struggling to negotiate the several physical spaces that I inhabit. Many of us are going back to work, to school, to church while also offering a lot of support to friends and family members–all during a pandemic that has been grinding on for months and months and months. I...

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Showing Up and our Messy Voices

I stand in my mom’s kitchen and squeeze the jar of honey, waiting for it to drip out of the bear in skinny messy lines, coating the yogurt. It’s the end of July and it’s sweet and golden with an occasional pulse of heaviness. My mom just asked a question with love in a clumsy...

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Tools at the Back of the Books

I don’t know if I ever thanked Sis. Parrish for the tools she gave me in Sunday school. I don’t know if she pulled her gift straight from a church-approved lesson manual or as an aside in answer to needs she saw. I only know that, to this day, whenever I turn to the appendix...

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Navigating Spiritual Wounds

I joined the Church 50 years ago in 1971 – 3 days shy of my 19th birthday. I was aglow with confirmation that God had guided me to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and supported my joining it. Having been spiritually nourished as a committed Christian since my childhood, I knew what...

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