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Rebecca J wrote a post on BCC about Pioneer Day that is stunning – honest, raw, funny, profound, insightful – truly stunning. If you tend toward emotional reactions, have some tissue handy. The link is:
http://bycommonconsent.com/2013/07/24/when-i-think-about-pioneers-july-21-2013/ I started reading with an eyebrow raised. Post about Pioneers? Blah… But ended up with eyebrow furrowed and wiping a tear from my eye.
Thanks for sharing.
Old-Timer wrote:honest, raw, funny, profound, insightful
Agree. Thanks for posting. (Wish our aging and ailing parents weren’t so far away.)
Quote:At the same time, my mother’s death was also the beginning of a new kind of faith for me, a simpler one that did not depend on my feelings about the points of doctrine that confounded me. When I became depressed, I was far away from God emotionally. But intellectually I knew that even though I couldn’t feel Him there, He was real. I knew He was real because I saw my mother–my ordinary, deeply flawed mother—kneel at the side of her bed and face death unafraid because she trusted God, and I could not forget it. I knew that she suffered from the same affliction I did: much of the time she considered herself a lost soul. But in the end God delivered her.
Wow!
This was written perfectly. I admit that I had the same reaction as Mckay… bleh.. pioneer story… but I am so glad I read it. My favorite line is the last line… Quote:I can’t shake the suspicion that they knew things I don’t know.
I have the same suspicion.
You know…in my ward we didn’t even acknowledge Pioneer Day…at all. No activity…no song in any auxiliary (well, I don’t know about primary), but at least for the adults, we just sort of pretended that it wasn’t even on the calendar.
What’s really great is that when a ward member mentioned it on a social media site, several ward council members scrambled to explain it away.
So very sad.
QuestionAbound wrote:You know…in my ward we didn’t even acknowledge Pioneer Day…at all.
No activity…no song in any auxiliary (well, I don’t know about primary), but at least for the adults, we just sort of pretended that it wasn’t even on the calendar.
What’s really great is that when a ward member mentioned it on a social media site, several ward council members scrambled to explain it away.
So very sad.
I don’t know where you live, but here in upstate NY our ward does always manage some acknowledgement – despite the fact that some, including some former bishops, don’t see the relevance. In a way, I’ve always felt sorry for those that fail to see the relevance – it really doesn’t take a whole lot of thinking about it to realize none of this would be here if they hadn’t done what they did. And I have often wondered if I would have done it.
Well. I’m sobbing now.
Thanks, Ray.
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