imagesHey did you remember that the  Women’s Meeting is an official session of General Conference? Yesterday’s meeting was the first under the designation. In commemoration of the twenty years since the presentation of the “Proclamation on the Family” at the General Relief Society Meeting this meeting focused on the importance and role of the family. I appreciated the multiple acknowledgement that families are families even when not in  ideal form. There seems to be no shortage of mentions that the family requires “strengthening,” “defending,” and “is under attack,” but I’d love a more practical discussion (the kind of gritty real talk from those who challenged each day and gulping thinking about the work that lies ahead as they try to make the families they have function, and move forward as a cohesive, conjoined, and co-dependent unit) of how we make the families we have matter, especially when our families are imperfect and not ideal. I like to think that some of that answer came in President Eyring’s talk on mourning with those who mourn. Can we talk about more of it here?

Was there something from the meeting that struck you at its inspiration for you? Perhaps there is something that you’d want to discuss further with the intelligent and thoughtful readers who comment here? We welcome it all. We love hearing from all of you.


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