Soap Box

I'm going to get on my soap box here for minute because this is my blog and I can!  I feel very sad/frustrated, irritated, angry about these women who are causing such ripples and contention in the church.

The first thing that is bugging me is this whole "wearing pants to church" issue.  Give me a break!  I do not feel like going to church in pants and I like going in my "best dress".  I like to get dressed up and wear skirts and dresses and feel like I am appropriately showing respect to the Lord by dressing that way.  What is that saying-an outward showing of an inner commitment?  Now I don't think that those who wear pants to church are wrong and I know there are some people/places where that is the norm orpeople can't afford it and that is fine.  I have the blessing of being able to afford and wear dresses so I will.  The pioneers had usually 1 dress for the week and one dress for church and they still kept that one dress for church clean and saved it for Sunday because they were going before the Lord and they knew it.  If you feel acceptable before in the Lord then it really doesn't matter what you wear but don't make it a federal case.

The second that that has me irritated is the whole movement to let women say the prayers in General Conference.  Again-give me a break!  Who are these people that have time to worry about these things.  This has become news-worthy?

The third thing that is bothering me the most is this whole thing with women wanting the Priesthood.  Are you kidding me?  You really want more responsibility, more accountability and feel less important/less valued/less effective because you don't have the priesthood?  WHATEVER!  I do not have time to worry about these silly little things.  I have much more important things to worry about like my children with diabetes, or the math teacher whose daughter was killed last week in a car accident, whether or not I am doing my best in keeping my covenants and commandments, the young family where the dad died at 7pm and his new baby daughter was born at midnight, and my relationship with my husband, my children and my Heavenly Father.  Not to mention the starving children, the homeless, the sick, the sad, the lonely-the list goes on and on and on.  Why do we make mountains out of molehills and worry about petty things when there are so many other things that need focusing on?  I put motherhood and priesthood on the same level.  I don't think one is better than the other and I don't think that to be important to the Lord we all have to be the same and have the same.  Do we believe what we say we believe or not?  Either you believe that the true church has been restored to the earth and is the same church that the Savior led when he was here or you don't.  Either you believe and sustain the prophet or you don't.  You can't have it both ways.  UGGHH!  This is such a waste of time and energy and brain cells.  I do believe that we are equal before the Lord but that we are not all the same.  There are men and there are women.  Each is given their own stewardship and responsibilities and both will be held accountable before the Lord.

That is all.