Check back for more updates and follow our Facebook page! We have been so happy to find willing volunteers and helpful partners in our continued efforts to help the people of Ukraine. You can donate HERE. May Update Mid April, Big Ocean Women board member, Vilma, went with two volunteers, Valerie VanLeuven Ockey and Jarrod…
The tenet, “We live and promote a Life Culture within the womb, the home, and our ecological environment,” is really an intimate and far-reaching belief. It is also something that applies to so many of the current events that we see in headlines and frontlines across the world at every level. In the United States,…
The first time I saw a Dutch door I was a young mother on vacation with my husband and his family. We stayed at a cute little cottage near the sea, the air thick with salt and damp, flowers and shrubs and greenery growing riotously near the windows and the doors and the walks around…
Life culture is a way of life based on the belief that human life at all stages from conception through natural death is sacred. This belief informs how we respect and value ourselves and others. Reflections on generating and preserving a life culture led me to discover similarities to starters or cultures required to make…
One of my passions is doing genealogy research. I can spend hours going through stacks of old books in libraries or trying to decipher centuries-old and faded handwriting in online images of documents. One of the document types I consult frequently is census records. In the United States, census records began in 1790 but only…
I’m not really an ocean girl. I guess not in my perceived way. Oh, it’s nothing against the old girl. It’s just her power—her power–that makes this mostly sure human unsure about her. When I’m present with her I experience many things: the spray, salt, wind–byproducts of her way. As I stand, I absorb her…
“We live and promote a life culture within the womb, the home, and our ecological environment.” Promote: (verb) To further the progress of something. To support or actively encourage. I am a promoter of raspberries. I’ve never thought of it that way before, but looking back on the past two decades of my life, the…
We live and promote life culture and are stewards over our environment. What a great theme to focus on this month. Each day we are given is a gift from God. What we do with that day is our gift back to God. It’s a wonderful reciprocal, synergistic cycle that brings growth and consequences. This…
From the missionary blog of President Gary Judd and Sister Julene Judd “Consider the Lilies” was recorded almost twenty years ago by The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square. I loved it immediately. The message of gratitude and faith and trusting in God resonated with me, even though I couldn’t actually imagine a flower like that…
Happy news from Fatima sent from her new room which she has rented for the year. Isn’t it heartening to see how generative solutions breathe life and hope into our lives? Dear Ann, Trusting that this email finds you well. We had our first meeting in our new meeting place last week. It was such…