“And they taste the bitter, that they may know to prize the good” (Moses 6:55). I feel a sense of anticipation as the deacon approaches our pew. My son passes the tray to me, and I slowly bring a piece of bread to my lips. The Savior knows what it’s like to have a broken [...]
This Cup
by Michelle Linford
Why These Women in Jesus’ Genealogy?
by Julie M. Smith
MOST READERS of Matthew’s Gospel take one look at that first page full of “begats” and impossible-to-pronounce names and quickly turn the page. But Matthew was a deliberate writer; he didn’t begin his gospel with a boring list, but rather with a selective portrait of the progenitors who made Jesus. Perhaps the most interesting facet of [...]
Eve’s Blood
by Elizabeth Cranford
Did Eve fear death the first time she bled? Did she yell for Adam, sweating from his labor, to come running, afraid he would be alone again? How many days did she wait and wonder, cleaning, bleeding, avoiding her husband’s glances and rough hands? Did she dress and trudge through mud to the altar kneeling [...]
The Shepherd’s Wife
by Andrea Stacy
He’s here again— it must be thirty lambings since last I saw Him— a mewling, just-arrived babe folded in the protection of His mother’s arms— the night my husband urged me, though nearing my own confinement, to come and see. Angels, he said as we hurried beneath the stars, came with wondrous news of a [...]