Beautiful Women: Part I

I say we just cancel winter!

There are no flowers.

It is dark and dreary.

The wind is harsh.

Winter is lonely and bleak.

And chilling.

It seems like such an unnecessary season, just so we can get to that great anticipated S*P*R*I*N*G!

Just by saying the two words;

S*P*R*I*N*G

and

w-i-n-t-e-r

there is a drastic difference!

However, when thoughts of "no winter" enter my mind I know I would miss bundling up in a heavy quilt in the early dark evening for a good movie!

Eating hot soup and bread, that warms you from the inside out!

I would miss the fresh snow covered pines and the quietness absorbed by the blanket of flakes.

I would miss shoveling the snow,

and even that ever slow slide across snow-packed roads as you creep along with your foot on the brake.

I would miss the “winter” holidays, and that extra time I get to spend with my family!

Maybe cancelling winter isn’t such a prudent thing to do; after all, winter is the season of hibernation and rest in nature. 

Winter is, in its own way, beautiful!

I believe the same is true for growing old!  

We shouldn’t cancel it, like Hollywood and society try to do. With their plastic surgery, face creams, fad diets and other demeaning and fashionsble ideas.  

Age is beautiful!

It is necessary!

Some quotes to think about:

 

 “While Satan may be attacking the sisters at earlier ages, the Lord is lifting sisters to higher and higher levels of spirituality.”(1)

“The adversary would have us be critical or judgmental of one another.  He wants us to concentrate on our differences and compare ourselves to one another.”(2)

 

“We as women can be particularly hard on ourselves.  When we compare ourselves to one another, we will always feel inadequate or resentful of other.”(2)

“We must stop concentrating on our difference and look for what we have in common; then we can begin to realize our greatest potential and achieve the greatest good in this world.”  (2)

“If there are barriers, it is because we ourselves have created them.  We must stop concentrating on our differences and look for what we have in common; then we can begin to realize our greatest potential and achieve the greatest good in this world.”(3)

After all, winter can be beautiful!

Sources:

(1)    Eyring, President Henry B., First Counselor in the First Presidency, “Daughters in the Covenant.”

 (2)    Oscarson, Bonnie L., Young Women General President, “Sisterhood:  Oh, How We Need Each Other.”

(3)    Burton, Linda K, Relief Society General President, “Wanted:  Hands and Hearts to Hasten the Work.” 

Beautiful Women: Part II

We are created in God’s image.

 

We are unique for a reason.

We look different for a reason.

When you look in the mirror love yourself and see yourself with eternal eyes!

“As women of all ages, we walk in His light.  Our journey on the path is personal and well lit with the Savior’s love.” (1)

“Jesus called him to become a part of His work-the work of a disciple.  Our work is the   We are to ‘lay aside the things of [the] world,…cleave unto [our] covenants,’ and come unto Christ and follow Him.  That’s what disciples do!”(2)
same.

“I invite you to not only love each other more but love each other better.” As quoted(4)

 We are beautiful!

(1)Wixom, Rosemary M., Primary General President, “Keeping  
Covenants Protects Us, Prepare Us, and Empowers Us.

(2)Burton, Linda K, Relief Society General President, “Wanted:  Hands and Hearts to Hasten the Work.” 

Beautiful Women: Part III

These girls their joy, happiness, innocence, and self-confidence of who they are and what they want, will soon enough be replaced with feelings doubt and inadequacy.

Can you imagine looking at these beautiful girls and knowing that society will not treasure who they will become as they grow older and wiser? 

It breaks my heart.

It makes me cry.

It saddens my soul.

Society and Hollywood will tell them in pictures, words, movies, songs and in social media that they aren’t this or that. . .

Why do we as women do that?

Why do we as women allow that to be done to our daughters?

Why do we do it to ourselves?

What is wrong with us?

We MUST embrace each of our seasons and we MUST teach our daughters to embrace each season, because we are destroying the hearts and thoughts of many beautiful women!

 

We are beautiful women 

with beautiful talents and a beautiful plan.

Beautiful Women: Part IV

The beautiful women in my life:

Noble

Grandmothers,

Mothers,

Daughters,

      Wives,

      Friends, 

      Examples,

      Daughters of God.

“Your feelings of kindness and forgiveness toward others come as your divine inheritance from Him as His daughter.  Each person you meet is His loved spiritual child“(1)

 
“..you can gain the same ability to enrich your marriage and the capacity to raise noble children by following the examples of great women.” (1)





“We have been blessed with tender and charitable natures which enable us to render Christlike love and service to those around us.”(3)



 

 “To be sisters implies that there is an unbreakable bond between us.  Sisters take care of each other, watch out for each other, comfort each other, and are there for each other through thick and thin.”(2)
  


Sources: 
(1)Eyring, President Henry B., First Counselor in the First Presidency, “Daughters in the Covenant.”
(2) Oscarson, Bonnie L., Young Women General President, “Sisterhood:  Oh, How We Need Each Other.”
(3)Burton, Linda K, Relief Society General President, “Wanted:  Hands and Hearts to Hasten the Work.”