Here in the Treasure Valley, we have a beautiful new LDS Temple. The LDS church made every effort to make it beautiful, wonderful, and took special care to make the women's wing absolutely perfect.
In one of the hallway's waiting rooms for initiatories, there is a bench sitting on each wall for Sisters. Big glorious beautiful paintings set above the benches. The bottom of the picture frames just above shoulder level. Thus, the sisters who sit on the benches must lean forward just right so as to not hit their heads. Each of us thinks and hopes that we will not be the one to knock the wonderful painting down. So the sisters sit politely, leaning forward and say nothing. It is absolutely absurd and painful to watch. Each time I've visited the temple, I've asked the ladies at the desk, to please request that the paintings be moved up just a foot.
You see, many Mormon women wrongly believe that they should be quiet and just say nothing. These are the same women who don't say, "You are hurting me." I was raised to be that kind of woman. It's so stupid. I know the people who run the temple do not want the women to be in that kind of discomfort, but the women just sit there.
The Church will not go forward until the Sisters of the Church realize their potential and speak up.
For heaven's sake, the Word of Wisdom came about because Emma spoke up and said she was sick n tired of cleaning up after the tobacco spitting men!
The LDS Church has a plague of men who exercise Unrighteous Dominion. That will not end until the Women quit it with their Unrighteous Submission. When a woman goes along with whatever because she believes that's "righteous" she contributes to the corruption of her over dominating husband.
The church has thousands of single mothers with terrible stories of abusive men. We as women need to realize how we are contributing to the problem.
The LDS Church is working very hard to change these dynamics. The first thing we Sisters can do to make that change happen is just asking for the paintings to be raised up a foot. That's it!
You can't have Unrighteous Dominion without Unrighteous Submission!
In one of the hallway's waiting rooms for initiatories, there is a bench sitting on each wall for Sisters. Big glorious beautiful paintings set above the benches. The bottom of the picture frames just above shoulder level. Thus, the sisters who sit on the benches must lean forward just right so as to not hit their heads. Each of us thinks and hopes that we will not be the one to knock the wonderful painting down. So the sisters sit politely, leaning forward and say nothing. It is absolutely absurd and painful to watch. Each time I've visited the temple, I've asked the ladies at the desk, to please request that the paintings be moved up just a foot.
You see, many Mormon women wrongly believe that they should be quiet and just say nothing. These are the same women who don't say, "You are hurting me." I was raised to be that kind of woman. It's so stupid. I know the people who run the temple do not want the women to be in that kind of discomfort, but the women just sit there.
The Church will not go forward until the Sisters of the Church realize their potential and speak up.
For heaven's sake, the Word of Wisdom came about because Emma spoke up and said she was sick n tired of cleaning up after the tobacco spitting men!
The LDS Church has a plague of men who exercise Unrighteous Dominion. That will not end until the Women quit it with their Unrighteous Submission. When a woman goes along with whatever because she believes that's "righteous" she contributes to the corruption of her over dominating husband.
The church has thousands of single mothers with terrible stories of abusive men. We as women need to realize how we are contributing to the problem.
The LDS Church is working very hard to change these dynamics. The first thing we Sisters can do to make that change happen is just asking for the paintings to be raised up a foot. That's it!
You can't have Unrighteous Dominion without Unrighteous Submission!
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