Segullah's Blog, page 28
April 30, 2020
Segullah Podcast- Words Fall In- with Rosalyn Eves
When Rosalyn Eves is not teaching University English, being a Mom and wife, and engaging in the amazing outdoors of Southern Utah, she is writing. Rosalyn is the author of a historical fantasy trilogy which started with the book Blood Rose Rebellion. Lost Crow Conspiracy and Winter War Awakening are the next titles in the...
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April 19, 2020
Sometimes Treading Water Is a Victory
I already wrestle with anxiety, and COVID-19 has provided a number of opportunities for my anxiety to spike. My adult children have returned home to ride out the quarantine with me and my husband. I teach classes at two local universities, which I am now doing online before 8 am since my husband and daughter...
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April 10, 2020
Grief and Good Friday: A Unified Day of Fasting and Prayer
For centuries believing Christians have honored Good Friday – the day of Christ’s crucifixion and redemptive death – as a day of fasting and prayer. This year, President Russell M. Nelson of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, like thousands of other clergy members worldwide before him, encourages Church members to dedicate this...
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April 8, 2020
Before All This
A few weeks ago, at the beginning of stay home, stay safe, I needed an outing. Usually when I need out it’s because my children only stop fighting in the car. I don’t know how we came to this agreement, but driving has always been the answer to my touchiness, or theirs. When they were...
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April 3, 2020
When Coronavirus Sent the Missionaries Home
Five months ago, almost to the day, I wrote about my son’s missionary service: I want to wrap myself in this newborn missionary Spirit right now, knowing that in a few weeks or months my son may be sick, or discouraged, or exhausted, and I might get mad at God and whoever assigned him to...
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April 1, 2020
My Ecology of Faith
“To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.” Audrey Hepburn One of the last tasks I did before leaving my classroom on March 12, 2020 was erase my whiteboard. It was not unusual and part of an automatic ritual, but I knew this time would be different. The weekly quotes, daily goals, and other...
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March 31, 2020
All over the Place: Lighthearted, Mournful, Admonishing, Hopeful Thoughts on COVID-19
I don’t know how to write this post. I thought of taking a lighthearted tone since every person on the planet with access to print, broadcast, phone, telegraph, or carrier pigeon has by now certainly learned of COVID-19 and the upheaval it’s causing. (If they hadn’t before, they figured it out by the time they...
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March 29, 2020
Segullah Spring Journal: 2020 Writing and Visual Arts Contest Winners
Life feels a little quieter lately. Most of us stay home and visit no more than one or two other places. Outside, the roads are less traveled, some store shelves are empty, and only ghosts of crowds gather. Can this unsettling, collective quiet lead to peace? This year, for the first time in the annual...
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Announcing the Segullah 2020 Visual Arts Contest Winners
We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2020 Segullah Visual Arts Contest! Segullah’s 2020 1st Place Visual Arts Winner is “Prayer of the Heart” by Brooke L. Bowen. In “The Prayer of the Heart” Segullah’s Art Board was impressed with its striking composition, the grace and sophistication of the human form, the...
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Announcing the 2020 Poetry Contest Winners
FIRST PLACE Winner: Alizabeth Worley The Diving Pool My husband and I—cerebral palsy tightening his ankles, stacking his back in the water heated tank we return to every week, swimsuits grabbing our thighs and hips, my belly, chest, spine; waves vaulting over the gutter, which we cleave to like barnacles (utterly ...
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