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I love finding these gems in the Woman’s Exponent. The language is just a little more formal, but the subject still rings true. In our day and age, we have to dig deep to find the true meaning of Christmas and what we are really celebrating. And when we do find the true meaning, we […]
I was lucky to sit in at a luncheon where Elder Bednar spoke the other day. He instructed us to pull out some paper and a pen, and with our notes teach our families about the true meaning of Christmas. Tree He first points out a regular Christmas tree. When you gaze upon your Christmas […]
Christmas is a time of joy and happiness. Yet sometimes realities of our situation press upon us and we find little joy or happiness. Times have gotten real hard real fast for a lot of people this Christmas. But for many, every day of the year can be hard, so when Christmas rolls around, there’s […]
To review, the letter X is actually the Greek letter Chi. Xmas has been used for hundreds of years in religious writing, where the X represents a Greek chi, the first letter of Χριστος, “Christ.” So Xmas was a code phrase for Christ or Christmas. Symbolically let’s look at another thing. Chi is the first […]
I’m still reading through my conference talks. My favorites list keeps growing, and I just have to express some of my thoughts, so here’s my take on You Know Enough, by Elder Neil L. Andersen. The thing that prevents people from fulfilling their destiny, more than anything else, is fear/insecurities. We have an excuse […]
Aunt Em was the beloved Emmeline B. Wells, the long-time editor of the Woman’s Exponent. The following article was written by her, for the newspaper, and published in the Dec 15, 1875 edition. Let this serve as our own little reminder of Christmases past from our one and only Aunt Em. A Little Chat About […]
It takes an effort to keep Christ in Christmas. So many things come to dilute, replace, and expunge Jesus Christ from our Christmas holiday. Have you been watching as each year we are requested to be more and more politically correct, open, and accepting, to other holidays being celebrated at this time of year, but […]
I’m going to go out on a ledge and reprint an article found in the Woman’s Exponent from March 1, 1874. I am printing it in its entirety. It doesn’t give a date, or time period, and it doesn’t say how the editors of the Exponent found it, but it is interesting nevertheless. Mr. […]
I am a sucker for Christmas movies. Back when I originally wrote this post, I relied on the Thanksgiving newspaper to give me the schedule for upcoming Christmas movies, so I could set my DVR. As I update this post, I simply check Netflix, my Hallmark channel, or YouTube to find my favorites and watch anytime […]
As part of the Thanksgiving Holiday, I thought, Thanks in Hebrew would be very appropriate. Thanks in Hebrew is pronounced, Todah and looks like this: תודה The first character is the Tav, ת , and represents a sacred enclosure or specifically the Holy of Holies or Temple. The second character is the Vav, ו , […]
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