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MikeWaters · 06-24-2014, 04:29 AM

It was fast and testimony meeting. I was on my mission, sitting in the audience. A lady got up. She was mildly eccentric, or maybe I just got that impression after the testimony and didn't have it before. White American, empty nester, older in her 50s. She talked of her little dog that was pregnant with puppies and had been strugglings. Puppies weren't coming out. So began to be very worried. So she turned to her husband and asked him to give the dog a priesthood blessing. He was inactive. But mostly out of propriety, he refused to do so. The mamma dog continued to struggle. She asked her husband again. He refused again. The dog was struggling. She was afraid the dog would die, along with her puppies. So she related that she gave that dog a priesthood blessing herself. And the mama and puppies ended up fine. It's funny that I'm remembering this all these years later. This old lady didn't strike me as a feminist or an apostate. More like a cat lady.

That story was important to her. She shared it in order to share her faith. That God had answered her plea. So I don't make light of it, although at the time I was chuckling (silently).

The powerlessness she must have felt when her husband refused. Of course, in light of recent events, such an account might be received very differently. Rebellious, defiant. Apostate even. But it really wasn't.

Just an old lady trying to make her way in the world, and do right as she went.

06-24-2014, 04:29 AM	#1
MikeWaters Demiurge Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 36,365	an account of a blessing of healing by a woman It was fast and testimony meeting. I was on my mission, sitting in the audience. A lady got up. She was mildly eccentric, or maybe I just got that impression after the testimony and didn't have it before. White American, empty nester, older in her 50s. She talked of her little dog that was pregnant with puppies and had been strugglings. Puppies weren't coming out. So began to be very worried. So she turned to her husband and asked him to give the dog a priesthood blessing. He was inactive. But mostly out of propriety, he refused to do so. The mamma dog continued to struggle. She asked her husband again. He refused again. The dog was struggling. She was afraid the dog would die, along with her puppies. So she related that she gave that dog a priesthood blessing herself. And the mama and puppies ended up fine. It's funny that I'm remembering this all these years later. This old lady didn't strike me as a feminist or an apostate. More like a cat lady. That story was important to her. She shared it in order to share her faith. That God had answered her plea. So I don't make light of it, although at the time I was chuckling (silently). The powerlessness she must have felt when her husband refused. Of course, in light of recent events, such an account might be received very differently. Rebellious, defiant. Apostate even. But it really wasn't. Just an old lady trying to make her way in the world, and do right as she went.