Segullah's Blog, page 34

Mine is a Home

The author of today’s post lives in the Mountain West with her family. The first priesthood blessing I remember receiving occurred when I was nearly ten years old. I was going to get my tonsils out the next day, so my mom had asked our home teachers to give me a blessing. That night we...

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Tell Me So

Maybe it’s the cold, moving in like an unwanted neighbor, that has we me curling inward with my thoughts. Maybe it’s the family transition we are watching — a second marriage, more letting go, and leaning into the Lord to learn that kind of love. Maybe it’s this season of soft October light, leaf-littered lawns...

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Holy Ground: Motherhood and Midlife in Darlene Young’s Homespun and Angel Feathers

I love roller coasters — the anticipation and rise to great heights, the gut-lurching upside-down loops, the rush and plummet down the tracks. I’ve often visited Six Flags and waited in serpentine lines at Colossus for hours just for a short ride. Just to feel alive. Darlene Young accomplishes all this and more in her...

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The 6 Letter “S”-word

As a convert, there are some unique words in LDS parlance that I have developed fondness for – like “ministering sister” and “funeral potatoes.” Some words are just different.  “Communion” is now “taking the Sacrament.” “Congregations” are now “wards” or “branches”. Some terms have apparently became obsolete. “M Men and Gleaners” were gone before I...

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General Conference and the Burden of the Word

In anticipation of General Conference, and after listening to President Nelson’s recent BYU devotional, I’ve been thinking about the burden of the word of the Lord. That phrasing fascinates me—it’s from Jacob 2: Verse 9: Wherefore, it burdeneth my soul that I should be constrained, because of the strict commandment which I have received from...

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Hope? A Noun or a Verb?

Two weeks ago on an early Sunday morning, we were up at our family cabin when my husband suffered a stroke. He was fully aware of it and told me through slurred speech and a droopy left side to take him to the hospital. We had gone up to the mountains for twenty-four hours to...

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Comfort Food

A few weeks ago, I was standing in my kitchen on a sunny Saturday morning trying to decide whether I wanted to drive to my favorite fruit stand for some local peaches to turn into pie. Just as I had decided to wait until the next week, the doorbell rang. It was my neighbor with...

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INTERSEX AND MORMON- PART 2: Tea, Laughter and Light

Guest post by Green This is the second post in a series about my experience as a diagnostically intersex Mormon. (The first post can be read here) This is simply my experience, and not intended as a critique of the church, of-non-intersex people, of intersex people or otherwise. It is my story only, as a...

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Puzzling

I do crossword puzzles. In pen. I started decades ago, I’m not sure why. I am not a master crossworder but pencil did not seem assertive or confident enough. Maybe using pen is so satisfying because the finished puzzle mimics my life. I do not do a puzzle in one sitting. It takes me a...

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Fall Journal 2019 Editorial & Links

I joke with some – mostly close friends and fellow teachers- that I think September would be one of my favorite months, but I never feel fully present. I think it’s because as the season changes and it’s back to the rhythm of teaching it becomes a little bit existential at times- like the friend...

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