Julia - I thought after the discussion of personal missions you might find this talk by Sister Parkin interesting. It gives it a different twist. One that I think I like better.
Sister Parkin's talk
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Profundities--Eve
Brian Sykes (geneticist who studies Mitochondrial Eve): "I have in my hand the end of the thread which connects me to my ancestral mother way at the back. I pull on the thread and one woman's face in every generation, feeling the tug, looks up at me. Their faces stand out from the crowd, and they are illuminated by a strange light. These are my ancestors. I recognize my grandmother in the front row, but in the generations behind her the faces are unfamiliar to me.
There are all my mothers who passed this precious messenger [mitochondrial DNA] from one to another through a thousand births, a thousand screams, a thousand embraces of a thousand newborn babies. The thread becomes an umbilical cord." pgs. 47-48
Satan wishes to blur our knowledge of the absolutes of good and evil. The power inherent in that knowledge makes us like God. It is our choice of good over evil which makes us godlike.
The ultimate reality for women rests on the truth that our lives are embedded in relationships. Our identities are tied up with other people. pg. 172
President Hinckley: "Your potential is limitless. You are daughters of God, endowed by inheritance with marvelous gifts and immeasurable potential. Accept the challenge. Go forward with confidence." pg. 161
There are all my mothers who passed this precious messenger [mitochondrial DNA] from one to another through a thousand births, a thousand screams, a thousand embraces of a thousand newborn babies. The thread becomes an umbilical cord." pgs. 47-48
Satan wishes to blur our knowledge of the absolutes of good and evil. The power inherent in that knowledge makes us like God. It is our choice of good over evil which makes us godlike.
The ultimate reality for women rests on the truth that our lives are embedded in relationships. Our identities are tied up with other people. pg. 172
President Hinckley: "Your potential is limitless. You are daughters of God, endowed by inheritance with marvelous gifts and immeasurable potential. Accept the challenge. Go forward with confidence." pg. 161
Future Readings
- **Little Britches / Ralph Moody
- **1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus / Charles Mann
- **The Whipping Boy / Sid Fleischman
- **Notwithstanding My Weakness / Neal A. Maxwell
- **Cranford / Elizabeth Gaskell
- **Carry On, Mr. Bowditch / Jean Lee Latham
- **Man's Search for Meaning / Viktor E. Frankl
- **The Scarlet Pimpernel / Emmuska Orczy
- **Surviving Jamestown / Gail Karwoski
- **The Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe / Stephen Hawking
- **Anahita's Woven Riddle / Meghan Nuttall Sayres
- **Walk Two Moons / Sharon Creech
- The Gate of Heaven / Mark. B. Brown
- **Onion John / Joseph Krumgold
- **The House of Seven Gables / Nathaniel Hawthorne
- **Basic Economics: A Citizens Guide to the Economy, Revised and Expanded / Thomas Sowell
- How Capitalism Saved America: The Untold History of Our Country, from the Pilgrims to the Present / Thomas J. Dilorenzo
- **The Post-American World / Fareed Zakaria
- **Midnight's Children / Salman Rushdie
- **Robinson Crusoe / Daniel Defoe
- **I am the Clay / Chaim Potok
- **Wild Swans : Three Daughters of China / Jung Chang
- **Understanding the Process of Economic Change / Douglass C. North
Commentary
Past Readings
- **The Federalist Papers / Alexander Hamilton
- A Passion for the Impossible / Miriam Huffman Rockness
- A Thomas Jefferson Education: Teaching a Generation of Leaders for the Twenty-first Century / Oliver Van DeMille
- Around the World in Eighty Days / Jules Verne
- Dividing Lines: The Politics of Immigration Control in America / Daniel J. Tichenor
- Eve and the Choice Made in Eden / BeverlyBeverly Campbell
- Fermat's Enigma:The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem / Simon Singh
- Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies / Jared Diamond
- Hamlet / William Shakespeare
- In Praise of Stay-at-Home Moms / Laura C. Schlessinger
- Kim / Rudyard Kipling
- Life of Pi / Yann Martel
- Milkweed / Jerry Spinelli
- On the Wings of Heroes / Richard Peck
- The Bronze Bow / Elizabeth George Speare
- The Devil We Knew:Americans and the Cold War / H. W. Brands
- The Little Prince / Antoine de Saint Exupéry
- The Screwtape Letters / C.S. Lewis
- The Secret Life of Bees / Sue Monk Kidd
- Their Finest Hour / Winston Churchill
- Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze / Elizabeth Foreman Lewis
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That was a great talk. Added to my guilt that all I've done is yell at my kids for two weeks. Shaking it off--moving on.
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