Currents June 2023
This month’s tenet celebrates the irreplaceable role of fathers, and then adds a twist–our need to build interdependent relationships with men. These are two vital concepts, often dismissed as outdated…
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Men Who Help Big Ocean Women
Our June tenet declares our gratitude for the fathers in the world and our desire to build interdependent relationships with men. We want to take this opportunity to express our…
When We Share We Grow
A few weeks back I was able to attend a conference for women – with some of my favorite women! It was a full weekend, and my motherhood, wifehood, and…
Developing Interdependence
I’m a grandma now. That means I once again get to delight in developmental milestones of a little one, but this time I also get the joy of watching my…
Hope For My Sons
Gordon B. Hinckley taught, “There are some men who, in a spirit of arrogance, think they are superior to women. They do not seem to realize that they would not…
Fathers: Men Who Step In and Step Up
This month as we consider the irreplaceable role of fathers, my thoughts and feelings have led me to conclude that every father steps into fatherhood with a bit of uncertainty…
Finer Than Frog’s Hair and Other Bits of Nonsense and Joy
“Finer than frog’s hair,” he used to say. Which is not a pun, exactly. Neither is it a dad joke, except for the way he told it with a twinkle…
Currents May 2023
All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother. Abraham Lincoln This quote has long been a favorite of mine. I appreciate the sacrifices that…
The Power of Womanhood and the Law of Witnesses
Recently I was reading the book “I Am Malala.” It is the memoir of a young woman who was shot by militants for advocating for the rights of girls in…
An Awareness of Feeling
It’s generally accepted that women have a greater capacity to connect by feeling. I think it starts with the hormones managing our bodies and the systems therein; ebbing and flowing…
On Radical Domesticity
“The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write, is an effort towards wholeness.” Madeleine L’Engle I have been many things in my life. I have taught orchestra to…
Join the WAVE
Do you want to be empowered as a faith-filled woman? Do you want to discuss with others what that means? Please join our monthly online discussion, the Big Ocean Women…
Her Most True and Perfect Form
I am thankful for the wisdom of women who write beautifully and work to lift others. One such woman is the author, Heather Ferrell. Earlier this year she shared on…
Meet Big Ocean: Kaylee Gwilliam
Kaylee grew up in St. George, Utah, USA and is the second oldest of seven children. She lived in a tight-knit community where the children played night games together regularly…
Working Together to Help in Ukraine
Most of the efforts by Big Ocean Women to help in Ukraine lately has been coordinating the sending of gathered and donated medical supplies, quilts, and bulletproof vests to those…
Fathers of the Fatherless
There I stood as a young girl at the age of four, sobbing as I watched my father leave again. It always felt like forever until I saw him again,…
Cottage Report: An Easter Retreat for Teens in Nigeria
Over the Easter weekend, the 15th to the 17th of April 2022, the Jos, Nigeria cottage hosted a retreat for youth in their area, including orphans, displaced children, and some…
Big Ocean Women – South Sudan Cottage Report
Visit to the Orphanage 12/2021 The South Sudan Juba Orphanage was established in 1960, making it the oldest orphanage in the country. Currently, it is the home of over 60…
Houston Cottage – Serving in Sweet and Personal Ways
The Houston cottage understands and promotes individual worth, especially the worth of girls and women. This past year the cottage, led by Nikki Brown, has served in very sweet and…
A Meditation on Shadows and Light
One of the realities for me of being a writing teacher is that I spend my life reading: reading books, reading craft theory, reading student drafts, reading the work of…
Women United in Faith
We begin the new year with this powerful tenet: “We believe in God and are women of faith.” This is a common theme about which we speak and write. But…
Giving Girls Dignity Nigeria
I met Dr. Ugochi Ohajuruka the first time I went to the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women in 2017. As I filmed her, I was so taken by…
Save the World: Help Your Neighbor
Last night I finished reading a memoir that left me reeling. I lay in bed for several hours afterward pondering my place in the world. I evaluated the way I…
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