Currents December 2022
All of my life I’ve heard the conversation about whether a person sees a glass as being half full or half empty. Recently, I came across the idea that neither…
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Abundance Awareness
This month we consider abundance and scarcity. No matter our outward circumstances, most of us experience both of these conditions. Surprisingly this may have more to do with our life…
An Abundance of Love
We as humans need love to thrive. It’s commonly known that children without the gift of love may suffer developmental delays, mental health struggles, and more. Thankfully, when love is…
Live Like You’re Dying
There is a song by Tim McGraw called “Live Like You Were Dying” that tells the story of a middle-aged man who faces what “might really be the real end.”…
Name Them One by One
The trend for the Christmas season to encroach or even bulldoze over Thanksgiving here in the United States is a growing one. The sales hit earlier, the music comes on…
On How We Learn the Dance
Of all the prayers that I have given since my children were born, one that I seem to have forgotten, overlooked, and neglected to include in the litany of devotion…
Currents November 2022
Like most girls, I grew up learning of powerfully impactful women in school – women like Mother Teresa, Rosa Parks, Marie Curie, and Malala Yousafzai. They achieved things that seemed…
Bella from Uganda: Model and Product of Powerful Impact
We would like you to meet Bella, a model of powerful impact and our new cottage leader in Uganda. First, we asked her to introduce herself. She responded: I am…
Meet Big Ocean – Paige
Paige Kelly, one of our talented writers, grew up in the historic town of Ogden, Utah. She describes a picturesque childhood “filled with catching water skeeters in the creek near…
Passing Goodness Along
“A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.” C.S. Lewis I can feel the…
Of Bees, Home, and Courage
I come from the Beehive State of Utah in the United States. The honeybee is our symbol and represents our deep history of industry. We believe in intuitive, hard work…
The Influence of One Woman
Recently our church group held a week-long service event and produced thousands of items to share with individuals throughout the world. This would not have been possible without the collaboration…
God Inside of You, Inside of Me
I think it is a common belief for many that this earthly journey is temporary and a part of a bigger plan, but sometimes we forget that in the middle…
You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know
My family has lived in several states in the US. We have also traveled through many more. In all of the states we have driven through there were mile markers…
On the Ferocious Junglefowl Which We Call the Humble Chicken
It is late afternoon, and in my backyard there is a mutiny afoot. Let me explain. We have chickens—five feathered egg layers who sometimes refuse to lay eggs, winged meat…
Currents October 2022
Internal Compass and Integrity As we consider this month how to recognize and follow our internal compass to act with integrity, perhaps we could consider the example set by Karl…
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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