-
Sabbath Devotional :: The Savior’s Healing Commands
Following the “Come, Follow Me” lessons from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, many of us have recently read of several of Christ’s early miracles, including His calming of the storm on the Sea of Galilee. The last six weeks have been pretty stormy for me: the loss of all my remaining natural hearing, a foot surgery wound not healing properly and requiring intensive treatment have been my billows tossing high and sky o’ershadowed with blackness. In this moment of time, the story of the calming of the storm and of many other miracles have given me comfort and hope. As Jesus wrought miracles of healing and safe…
-
Sabbath Devotional :: The Way of the Peacemaker
I was praying with particular earnestness and focus yesterday morning both because our oldest son was taking his Step 3 medical board exams that day and because our only daughter is off on another madcap solo adventure and planned to rent a car and drive in Ireland. “Please, please protect her, especially as this will be her first time driving on the wrong side of the road,” I prayed. Immediately, the spirit corrected me: “You mean, on the *other* side of the road?” This was said in that characteristically loving and almost indulgent, but gently chiding tone that I’ve come to recognize as the way the spirit speaks to me…
-
Sabbath Devotional :: Pacifist Perspective on War in the Book of Mormon
I would not feel uncomfortable if someone accused me of being a pacifist. My brain tells me that there are times that war is justified, but my heart can hardly handle the thought of it. My distaste for violence grows out of an innate recoiling at the suffering of any living creature. I was just born this way. By way of example, earlier this year my son’s seven baby rabbits all became ill, one after another and on separate days. Each died quite terribly after an hour of seizures and suffering. I cried and held each one as they passed, reasoning that my presence and soothing touch could help ease…
-
Sabbath Devotional :: The Master’s Work of Peacemaking
As we put an action-packed 2017 behind us and prepare ourselves for the year ahead, I hope we can each take a few moments to think and evaluate how our work at MWEG has made us feel. It would certainly be very easy in this challenging year for us to feel any number of negative emotions about the current state of affairs in the world — stressed, depressed, panicked, angry, even despairing. But if those are the predominant feelings we experience in our efforts, we must renew our focus on the one who (we hope) is always guiding our efforts — the Prince of Peace. Peacemaking has been our clarion…
-
Sabbath Devotional :: Letter from the Founders
The following Open Letter from the founders of Mormon Women for Ethical Government will appear in the Sunday edition of the Salt Lake Tribune and then again in Meridian Magazine (https://ldsmag.com) on Monday. Please join us in an MWEG-wide fast and mighty prayer tomorrow (Fast Sunday) for our Church leaders (who will be meeting with President Trump on Monday), for Robert Mueller and his team, for our elected leaders, for an enlightened citizenry, and for our country. Have a blessed Sabbath, all! * * * Dear Mr. President, We welcome you to our beautiful state. You probably do not know much about Mormons, so let us take a minute to…
-
Sabbath Devotional :: Emojis, Gandhi and God
It has been another busy week in our country. Town Halls convened — some raucous — some civil. Phones and faxes rang. Citizens wrote, stamped and sent post cards and letters. Grassroots organizations — many with goals overlapping MWEG’s — sprang up. Merriam-Webster reminded the country, despite sound bites to the contrary, that the definition of feminism is “the belief that men and women should have equal rights and opportunities.” Articles and actions collected likes, hearts, wows, as well as weepy and angry faces. I caught myself after clicking on the angry icon related to some new irksome development. What am I doing with the anger I just admitted to…
