Sharing this Christmas song, “Do You Have Room?” (by Shawna Edwards) has become a tradition for kicking off the Christmas season here at Mormon Women. If you have already heard it, we invite you to share it — to help encourage more conversations about different how we can choose to make room for the Savior during this busy holiday season.

If you haven’t yet seen it, we hope you enjoy it! (And that you also might consider sharing it. And/or sharing other music that inspires you to remember the Reason for the Season.)

How are you going to make room for the Savior this Christmas season? How do you seek to make room for Him in your everyday life? Share in the comments below, on our Facebook page, on your Facebook wall, on your blog, in an email…. If you do share on your blog, come let us know so others can read what you wrote! Or you can submit a guest post to mormonwomen a/ gmail d/ com.

Merry Christmas season!

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Dare to Stand Alone is a Mormon Messages video for youth, where President Thomas S. Monson, prophet and president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, shares a story of when he was in the U.S. Navy and felt very alone. He testifies that  “we are never alone when we stand with our Father in Heaven.”

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It’s a significant week for Christians the world over. Enjoy these Bible videos that depict many of the events in the last days of the SaviorJesus Warns Peter and Offers the Intercessory Prayer‘s mortal life, as well as His resurrection.

• Jesus Warns Peter and Offers the Intercessory Prayer
• The Lord’s Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem.
• The Last Supper
• Jesus is tried by Caiphas, Peter denies knowing Him
• The Savior Suffers in Gethsemane
• The Savior’s trial before Pilate
• Jesus is scourged and crucified
• Jesus is laid in the tomb
• The Savior’s Resurrection

Read past posts at Mormon Women about how Mormons celebrate Easter/Holy Week:
How Mormons Celebrate Easter
Celebrating Easter/Holy Week…
Easter Poetry, Music, Posts…

Share your thoughts about Easter (as well as links to your blog, if you have content there) in the comments section below.

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Why Relief Society?

Aniversario de la Sociedad de Socorro

Relief Society Visiting teaching is….

My Sister’s Hands

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And then if you have an iPad or an Android tablet you can download a free, interactive app that children might enjoy.

The desire to have and show charity intensifies during the Christmas season. How can we continue to find ways to show charity to others, to watch for those in need? Our challenge to you as we begin a new year is to think and look for ways to continue to serve the poor, to relieve suffering, to cheer a friend, to help a stranger.

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Merry Christmas from Mormon Women. Enjoy the following Christmas videos:

– A Bible video that tells the story of the Nativity
– Wise Men Still Seek Him (in case you didn’t see it yesterday)
– Look to the Light — people share how the light of Jesus Christ helped them come to find peace and strength in times of struggle and darkness

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Today, we are linking to a variety of Mormon posts, musicians’ works, and videos to finish up our series of pondering the Christmas story. Merry Christmas Eve to all!

The Two Christmas Lists (on LDS Friends): Consider the tradition of gift-giving that began, at least in a sense, with the wise men. This post shows the power of the love of God that can be shown (and felt) in the process of giving (and receiving) gifts.

We Three Kings and What Child is This? — sung by Mormon bloggers and musicians DeNae and Karen

Clap for Joy: Catherine shares beautiful thoughts on the Nativity, including reflections on both the Bible and the Book of Mormon Christmas stories. She also shares some lovely family Christmas traditions, and a scripture Advent (save for next year!)

The Christmas Angel, by Middle-Aged Mormon Man: Middle-aged Mormon Man ponders the role of the angel Gabriel (Noah, the prophet Noah from the Old Testament)

Here’s another blog to bookmark for Christmas Advent ideas for next year. This Mormon woman does a musical advent every year on her blog.

Silent Night by Mormon artists Amy Whitcomb and Jake Justice (with a hat tip to Mormon Soprano for sharing their video)

Wise Men Still Seek Him: New Mormon Messages video, showing three modern-day men who choose to seek and follow Christ in their daily lives through serving others around them. That we all may be so wise.

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~by Michelle

There is nothing about the Nativity story that I don’t love, but as a woman, it’s hard not to be moved in a special way by the stories of Elisabeth and Mary. To me, their stories underscore something I feel very strongly in my heart — that women are so important to God and His plan. I love how these two cousins had their lives and missions intertwine in such a remarkable way. They are such examples of faith. They had both anxiously awaited the Messiah, and willingly did their part in helping bring His mission to pass…as the mothers (respectively) of the forerunner, John the Baptist, and of the Savior Himself.

I love how their stories show that we worship a God of miracles. Their stories testify of angels and revelation from God, and that God knows us personally, by name. They reinforce the truth of the reality of life and existence before birth. They teach us of the importance of marriage and motherhood and family. Their stories also gently remind us that God’s timing and will may not always match our own, but that if we are willing, we can be instruments in His hands to help Him do His work.

And along with all the wonderful lessons their stories teach, I also try to remember them as humans, women with bodies susceptible to all the weakness and weariness of mortality. Pregnancy was a hard, demanding process then, too. (Imagine that process later in life as Elisabeth experienced it!) I try to imagine riding an animal for long distances right before giving birth, too, and giving birth in less-than-ideal (to say the least) circumstances. (I love the thoughts Mormon Soprano shares on this topic in her post, “Mary Went the Distance“)

The following video, in my mind, combines both the wonder of their stories and their humanness in a lovely way. I can only imagine how overwhelming it must have been to have all of these things happening, and to be sharing such sacred and challenging experiences together. Along with their expressions of faith come also evidences of humanness…see how tired Elisabeth appears, and sense how awestruck Mary sounds. This video helps me imagine some of what they must have felt, emotionally, spiritually, and physically. I sense a deep gratitude and wonder, even some shock, perhaps. Imagine what it must have been like to play such key roles in the fulfillment of ancient prophecies that they had treasured, studied, anticipated. I also imagine they were needing each other’s support and encouragement as they embarked on their respective missions to raise these sons to and for God.

I’m so grateful for the examples of faith that Mary and Elisabeth left for us. Our individual missions will most likely not be as known to the world, but they — and we — are each known to God. I believe each of us has our own work to do, and most of it, like with Mary and Elisabeth, will be within our own families. I think Mary and Elisabeth are examples of how we can respond when God calls to us in our own lives. Because He will. He does.

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