Just Some Thoughts

  "In His grand design, when God first created man, He created a duality of the sexes. The ennobling expression of that duality is found in marriage. One individual is complementary to the other. As Paul stated, 'Neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord' (1 Corinthians 11:11). There is no other arrangement that meets the divine purposes of the Almighty. Man and woman are His creations. Their duality is His design. Their complementary relationships and functions are fundamental to His purposes. One is incomplete without the other." - President Gordon B. Hinckley I loved this quote and it was one that I began my week with as we studied gender as it relates to family relations in my class this week. As a religious person with firm beliefs that gender is a part of our identity as an individual before we come to this earth, it is fascinating to follow cultural and social opinions and trends on this pressin...

This week was such a blur I can’t believe that it is already Friday again! This week I have been thinking a lot about family and what I am looking forward to with my own in the future. This week’s insight into my life, I have the sweetest boyfriend in the world that is soon to be a fiancé, and we have been talking a lot this week about our personal couple goals and some goals and practices that we want to implement in our future family. In my class this week we were also talking about family systems and roles, how convenient right? So, I guess you can say I have family on the brain and it has been such a growing experience to be able to apply this to my own life and I just want to share some thoughts about the things I have learned. Being the middle of three growing up, it would have been easy to be forgotten so I made sure that didn’t happen by being loud and difficult to ignore. Naturally. This is the role I took all throughout my childhood, up until I left ...

What a week! This has been a busy week starting school again for me after coming back from a wonderful study abroad semester in Israel. I am hoping that I will be able to share some insights and things from that over the course of my blog to add to and supplement some of the wonderful concepts and ideas I am learning about in my family relations class. I just wanted to start out this week with a little insight into my life that I want to tie in with some really cool things I learned in class. I am one of three children in my family, I happen to be the middle child (yes everything they say about being a middle child is true), and I have a very large extended family. On my mother’s side, there is a lot of divorce and re-marriage which has caused a lot of conversation in my house about how to and how not to have a successful marriage. I love my family and I can’t imagine my life without any of the members, but man is family a topic of heated discussion at times. After see...