Re: [ZION] working woman

2003-09-21 Thread Rusty Taylor
>On numerous occasions, we have been counseled that women need to get a good >education to not waste the gifts that have been given to her. I would >hazard to guess that many working mothers do not really have to work, that >the family could work things out so that she would not have to work. > >H

Re: [ZION] working woman

2003-09-20 Thread Stacy Smith
AIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2003 12:55 PM Subject: RE: [ZION] working woman > Stacy Smith wrote: > >I wish I could work at all. The Department of Rehabilitation in this > >county has evaluated me and decided I am unemployable. This is

Re: [ZION] working woman

2003-09-20 Thread Jon Spencer
Stacy Smith wrote: > The line must be decided individual case by individual case between the > person and the bishop, I'm sure. in response to a posting by Jim Cobabe: > >With regard to applying prophetic counsel, where is the line between > >personal prerogative and inspiration, and personal apost

Re: [ZION] working woman

2003-09-20 Thread Jon Spencer
be, in general, of low integrity. Jon - Original Message - From: "John W. Redelfs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2003 12:55 PM Subject: RE: [ZION] working woman > Stacy Smith wrote: > >I wish I could

RE: [ZION] working woman

2003-09-20 Thread Stacy Smith
That's not true of me. I loved medical transcription but did not have the necessary speed required and the references I was able to get became out of date soon. I loved it and I could learn to love something else. Stacy. At 08:55 AM 09/20/2003 -0800, you wrote: Stacy Smith wrote: I wish I co

RE: [ZION] working woman

2003-09-20 Thread Stacy Smith
I am diabetic and I had to find a way to observe the fast properly and still keep my sugar level at a reasonable point. I had been newly diagnosed and wasn't sure about how I could keep the fast. I now have some very good ideas through my bishop. Stacy. At 12:16 AM 09/20/2003 +, you wrot

RE: [ZION] working woman

2003-09-20 Thread John W. Redelfs
Stacy Smith wrote: I wish I could work at all. The Department of Rehabilitation in this county has evaluated me and decided I am unemployable. This is no laughing matter for me and has caused me much depression. Seeing I have no children, employment outside the home should not have been a pro

RE: [ZION] working woman

2003-09-20 Thread Stacy Smith
Heidi > [Original Message] > From: Jim Cobabe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 9/19/2003 9:12:23 AM > Subject: RE: [ZION] working woman > > > With regard to applying prophetic counsel, where is the line between > personal prerogative and

Re: [ZION] working woman

2003-09-20 Thread Paul Osborne
On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 13:35:44 + Jim Cobabe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Sounds like we need not follow prophetic counsel as long as our > circumstances make it inconvenient or uncomfortable for us. > > Am I getting this right? No, you're wrong prophet Jim. Your interpretation and expect

RE: [ZION] working woman

2003-09-20 Thread Jim Cobabe
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Be careful, Jim, of painting all LDS working women with the same brush. --- Yah, hope I wasn't doing that. But here's something to consider further... "It is in vain for persons to fancy to themselves that they are heirs with those, or can be heirs with them, who

RE: [ZION] working woman

2003-09-20 Thread hkpage
Jim Cobabe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 9/19/2003 9:12:23 AM > Subject: RE: [ZION] working woman > > > With regard to applying prophetic counsel, where is the line between > personal prerogative and inspiration, and personal apostasy? >

RE: [ZION] working woman

2003-09-19 Thread Jim Cobabe
Stacy Smith wrote: --- Not exactly. Sometimes it can be very uncomfortable to follow prophetic counsel and sometimes circumstantial change does not warrant a change. If there is any difficulty in this, as there has been with me and the fast, one counsels with the bishop. --- Not sure I under

RE: [ZION] working woman

2003-09-19 Thread Stacy Smith
Not exactly. Sometimes it can be very uncomfortable to follow prophetic counsel and sometimes circumstantial change does not warrant a change. If there is any difficulty in this, as there has been with me and the fast, one counsels with the bishop. Stacy. At 01:35 PM 09/19/2003 +, you wr

RE: [ZION] working woman

2003-09-19 Thread Stacy Smith
The line must be decided individual case by individual case between the person and the bishop, I'm sure. Stacy. At 02:12 PM 09/19/2003 +, you wrote: With regard to applying prophetic counsel, where is the line between personal prerogative and inspiration, and personal apostasy? 2 Sam 6:6-7

RE: [ZION] working woman

2003-09-19 Thread Jim Cobabe
With regard to applying prophetic counsel, where is the line between personal prerogative and inspiration, and personal apostasy? 2 Sam 6:6-7 And when they came to Nachon's threshingfloor, Uzzah put forth his hand to the ark of God, and took hold of it; for the oxen shook it. And the anger o

RE: [ZION] working woman

2003-09-19 Thread Jim Cobabe
Sounds like we need not follow prophetic counsel as long as our circumstances make it inconvenient or uncomfortable for us. Am I getting this right? // /// ZION LIST CHARTER: Please read it at /// /// http://www.zion

Re: [ZION] working woman

2003-09-15 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 07:28 PM 9/15/03 -0500, Paul Osborne wrote: On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 11:48:07 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Oh! And I forgot...my husband has also literally broken his back at > work...when the store was being constructed, they didn't properly > cover an > area where pipes and that come up to t

Re: [ZION] working woman

2003-09-15 Thread Paul Osborne
Thanks Ronn. My point exactly, and, many people haven't had pay raises for a couple of years but things keep going up like medical insurance but the benefits go down. Pretty soon people will be jumping out of windows and off bridges. The country is in a serious depression. Paul O On Sun, 14 Sep

Re: [ZION] working woman

2003-09-15 Thread Paul Osborne
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 11:48:07 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Oh! And I forgot...my husband has also literally broken his back at > work...when the store was being constructed, they didn't properly > cover an > area where pipes and that come up to the ground...only covered it > in > plywood.

Re: [ZION] working woman

2003-09-15 Thread Paul Osborne
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 11:50:33 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I, too, would also like decent health care for my family, but we pay > more > and get less coverage than the union employees do. He doesn't get > overtime. They do. He doesn't have any recourse when he doesn't > like how > he's be

Re: [ZION] working woman

2003-09-15 Thread Paul Osborne
years in, was not promoted. Yes, my > husband > is white collar, but I have to work, too. > > Heidi > > > > [Original Message] > > From: Paul Osborne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: 9/14/2003 7:56:10 PM > > Subje

Re: [ZION] working woman

2003-09-15 Thread hkpage
favors other females > in promotions. The last person to get promoted was a female with less than > 2 years of service in, yet my husband who is eminently more qualified and > smarter and who has nearly 5 years in, was not promoted. Yes, my husband > is white collar, but I have t

Re: [ZION] working woman

2003-09-15 Thread hkpage
AIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 9/15/2003 8:26:57 AM > Subject: Re: [ZION] working woman > > > As a member of a union (NEA, ISTA, BEA), and the widow of a "spoiled?" blue collar UAW worker, I'd like to see your husband get his hands dirty doing the blue-collar work my husband

Re: [ZION] working woman

2003-09-15 Thread hkpage
ped around it, but when his foot hit the wood, the wood shattered, he fell and the pipes broke his fall, as well as his back. Heidi > [Original Message] > From: Val <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 9/15/2003 8:26:57 AM > Subject: Re: [ZION] working wo

Re: [ZION] working woman

2003-09-15 Thread hkpage
Again, I'm sorry...I didn't mean to offend. Heidi > [Original Message] > From: Val <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 9/15/2003 8:26:57 AM > Subject: Re: [ZION] working woman > > > As a member of a union (NEA, ISTA, BEA), and the

Re: [ZION] working woman

2003-09-15 Thread Val
ted. Yes, my husband is white collar, but I have to work, too. Heidi > [Original Message] > From: Paul Osborne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 9/14/2003 7:56:10 PM > Subject: Re: [ZION] working woman > > Gordon B. Hinckley, "Women of t

RE: [ZION] working woman

2003-09-15 Thread hkpage
e if you must, but first walk a mile in my shoes... Heidi > [Original Message] > From: Ronn! Blankenship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 9/14/2003 8:45:28 PM > Subject: RE: [ZION] working woman > > At 09:04 PM 9/14/03 -0400, Noel B wrote: > &

RE: [ZION] working woman

2003-09-15 Thread Val
Perhaps we work because our husbands are, DEAD! There are many reasons women have to work. My husband was a blue collar worker, and even with a cheap mortgage (under 100,000) we could not make ends meet on his check alone. We never had a boat, never had a second home, never moved from the m

Re: [ZION] working woman

2003-09-15 Thread hkpage
: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 9/14/2003 7:56:10 PM > Subject: Re: [ZION] working woman > > Gordon B. Hinckley, "Women of the Church," Ensign, Nov. 1996, 67 > "Some years ago President Benson delivered a message to the women of the > Church. He encouraged them to

RE: [ZION] working woman

2003-09-14 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 09:04 PM 9/14/03 -0400, Noel B wrote: And why are they working? To get that second car, or the boat or the bigger house??? Or occasionally to keep the family from falling any further behind when taxes of various sorts frequently take up the first 50% of everyone's income, gas is over $2.00 a

RE: [ZION] working woman

2003-09-14 Thread Stacy Smith
ts Amendment if this was the position we are going to assume?? Help me understand where this is taking us? NB > -Original Message- > From: Paul Osborne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, September 14, 2003 8:23 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [ZION] workin

RE: [ZION] working woman

2003-09-14 Thread Noel B
AIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, September 14, 2003 8:23 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [ZION] working woman > > > > > Gordon B. Hinckley, "Stand True and Faithful," Ensign, May 1996, 91 > "I urge each of you young women to get all of the scho

Re: [ZION] working woman

2003-09-14 Thread Paul Osborne
Gordon B. Hinckley, "Women of the Church," Ensign, Nov. 1996, 67 "Some years ago President Benson delivered a message to the women of the Church. He encouraged them to leave their employment and give their individual time to their children. I sustain the position which he took. NEVERTHLESS, I recog

Re: [ZION] working woman

2003-09-14 Thread Paul Osborne
Gordon B. Hinckley, "Stand True and Faithful," Ensign, May 1996, 91 "I urge each of you young women to get all of the schooling you can get. You will need it for the world into which you will move. Life is becoming so exceedingly competitive. Experts say that the average man or woman, during his

Re: [ZION] working woman

2003-09-14 Thread Paul Osborne
"Excerpts from Recent Addresses of President Gordon B. Hinckley," Ensign, Dec. 1995, 66 "In this age when more and more women are TURNING TO DAILY WORK, how tremendous it is, once in a while, to stop and recognize that the greatest service that any woman will ever perform will be in nurturing, tea