One of our newest members of the Big Ocean Women communications team is a wonderfully insightful author, Emily Layton. She grew up in Tempe, Arizona and is “the middle of five children.” She shared the following experience from her childhood: “Every summer growing up we went for a week or two to a cabin in…
Big Ocean Women continue to help with emergency and ongoing needs for refugees from Afghanistan. More information to follow.
January, the month named for the Roman god of beginnings, transitions, passages, and endings has us traditionally looking back in reflection and forward in hope. When we look back we can see the incredible obstacles that have been overcome, the relationships we have built, the good we have done, and also identify where we have…
I love that the first tenet of focus for the year is “We believe in God and are women of faith.” This tenet was something that really drew me to this organization when I was first introduced because my faith gives me strength and is what guides my life. I am so thankful for my…
One passage of Scripture that I love is found in Romans Chapter 8, verse 28: “And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God.” All things. All things? All things! The good things obviously come from God. It is so easy to recognize that and be thankful for those…
One of the ways that I am always so happy to see the positive culture of abundance so clearly demonstrated is when there are invitations to donate for people in need: when major storms hit an area, when the pandemic left people in great need, and most recently as the Utah cottages and friends from…
The airport is a wonderful place to people watch. I was recently delayed at an airport for about three hours with my husband as we traveled home. We walked all around the terminals, up and down escalators, bustling along with the hurried crowds or standing and waiting while the moving walkway took us down the…
There is a thought that gets shared around this time of year in northern areas with four seasons about how the leaves are about to show us how beautiful it is to let things go. My mind got to wandering as I considered this the other day. Yes, the changing of the colors of the…
Lyn Misner is a relatively new member of the Big Ocean Women community, and she brings with her a wealth of wisdom and understanding from her life. Lyn grew up in what she describes as a “wonderful family” as the oldest of five children. She feels it was a blessing to have had her paternal…
Twenty years ago, when I started having my babies, I was gifted some very lovely blankets by wonderful women I knew and loved. Some of my favorites had crocheted edges, and I would admire the handiwork when I held my babies wrapped in the beautiful blankets that offered warmth and reminded us of the love…