getting answers to prayers Archives - Women in The Church of Jesus Christ https://womenseekingchrist.org/tag/getting-answers-to-prayers/ Who We Are, What We Believe, How We Live -- Glimpses into Latter-day Saint Life Fri, 22 May 2009 14:42:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Review, Reflect and Return: Beauty https://womenseekingchrist.org/2009/05/22/review-reflect-and-return-beauty/ https://womenseekingchrist.org/2009/05/22/review-reflect-and-return-beauty/#comments Fri, 22 May 2009 11:59:43 +0000 http://mormonwoman.org/?p=1350 This week, we are sharing a link to a post about the beauty God has created. Read it, think it over, and come back and share your thoughts. Over the years, I have sung that song from “West Side Story”—“I feel pretty, oh so pretty!” and have laughed. I felt anything BUT pretty. I have […]

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]]> This week, we are sharing a link to a post about the beauty God has created. Read it, think it over, and come back and share your thoughts.

Over the years, I have sung that song from “West Side Story”—“I feel pretty, oh so pretty!” and have laughed. I felt anything BUT pretty. I have spent my entire lifetime feeling unattractive.

To be truthful, I was somewhat taught that I was not pretty. I could share a litany of comments from various people in my life: “You’ll never be beautiful so work on your personality.” “Your friend is pretty and you are smart. That’s just the way it is.” And one of my personal favorites when I was considering serving a mission as a young adult: “You’re not ugly enough to go on a mission.” Ugly? Enough? Uh, OK…

So you can imagine how I felt when I was diagnosed with breast cancer and told that I had to have a mastectomy… {Read More}

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]]> This week we share a link to wonderful testimony of the power of prayer.  Please, go and review it.  Then, return and share your thoughts with us.

“A few months ago Chris and I had decided to go to Mexico City for his brother’s wedding party. We had a deadline for getting the tickets. We needed to purchase them by March 31st in order to get the deal that we wanted through Alaska Air. Our deadline was approaching and each day I would ask Chris if he had purchased the tickets that day. He would say, “no, not yet.” I would just nod my head and think about my reservations that I had with going…” Read more here.  

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