Segullah's Blog, page 27

Reclaiming Hope?

Recently I asked my husband if God possibly used the creation of the Earth and we humans who live on it as a prototype before They got it right somewhere else. Wherever that place is, I would like to hie there. Recently I have been so disappointed on so many fronts with humans. Wasn’t it...

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Let’s Make This Moment Flower

It’s a little limp of me to say that I don’t know what to say. But today I am limp, still laying in a haze of post-surgery confusion. After the anesthesia, I woke up to a world so angry and broken. I tried to get to the pharmacy for some medicine and was caught in...

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Difficulties with Cross-cultural Communication

I am uncomfortable. My news feed is filled with intense language and startling images of protests about race relations.  Most immediately, people are protesting the May 25, 2020 death of George Floyd while in police custody; however, people are protesting systemic racism that is ingrained in a number of US institutions. I’m tempted to look...

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To Learn and Then Act is Christ’s Way

I sit and dance with the cursor— two words forward, one delete back, in rhythm with the collective throb of our country’s pulse of need. It feels odd, even wrong to write about what I had planned, and it feels careless to not write about what is happening in our country, families, friends, and ourselves...

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The Ties That Bind

A few years ago I became laser-focused on learning about sound and its connection to emotional and physical healing. When I first picked up the frame drum, I knew it was the instrument for me. The frame drum is built on a hoop with skin on one or both sides. Sometimes the drum hide and/or...

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Maintaining Work-Family Boundaries during COVID-19

The first part of quarantine felt like an adventure. I had a lot of adrenaline concerning getting my adult children home to shelter with us. I had to stock up on supplies while being careful about going out. I started reading updates from CDC, WHO, and CIDRAP about how the virus functions. And I had...

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Whose on the Lord’s Side, Who?

Mind.blown. I recently sat down to watch Mrs. America, the new mini-series starring Cate Blanchett as STOP ERA founder, Phyllis Schlafly. The series begins with Schlafly meeting Phil Crane for an interview. You probably have never heard of him but I grew up in his Illinois congressional district. These events were very much a part...

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How do YOU do home church during COVID?

In a recent Christian Science Monitor article called “Virtual Sunday School: Where faith endures during Lockdown”, Rachel Lambourne of Fremont, CA, responds to a question about how having church at home works for her and her young family during this age of COVID. Rachel says, “I think the peace that we generally feel when we...

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Book Review: A Girl’s Guide to Heavenly Mother

A Girl’s Guide to Heavenly Mother is the most recent book from writers McArthur Krishna and Bethany Brady Spalding, authors of the Girls Who Choose God series. Like their previous work, this new book is a game-changer in the world of books for Latter-day Saint children. It is written as a guidebook or workbook, inviting...

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Home. I Get To Be At Home.

Early last March, I boarded a plane to visit my mother in New York. As I live in Australia, this was not a simple coast to coast jaunt, but rather a hemisphere to hemisphere voyage. My husband and I planned the trip months in advance. Though my food storage was already in good shape, I...

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