I’m not into politics, but I think I’m going to have to bone up.  We can’t help but hear (and worry) about what’s going on in our country.  As I recall from history lessons, this country was set up to be governed by the voice of the people.  But it is my opinion there are a lot of people just like me out there; people who kind of go along with the flow; listen, but don’t act; complain, but don’t get involved.

As I have read about what our early Mormon Women accomplished out here in the Wild West, speaking out, meeting regularly to organize and give voice, demanding to be heard, traveling to meetings, and bringing people to Utah to see for themselves, I wonder if we present-day sisters should be preparing to do something similar?

Our constitution is changing and allowing for some issues that go against our belief systems.  As members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and in the name of Christianity, we should be taking more of an interest in our moral welfare.

Relief Society can provide information, organization, and delegation, so we have a voice, and are heard in the public arena.  Relief Society Mass Meetings can return where all those who choose to raise their voices can come together, volunteer themselves, and feel momentum from our Mormon Women movement.

It’s only a matter of time where the state you live in will be threatened with a moral issue, if it already hasn’t happened.  We need to get up off of our chairs, raise our voices, and make a stand.  We also need to be brave enough and strong enough to handle the backlash that will surely come.  It is up to us to make a difference today.  Who knoweth whether we are come to the earth for such a time as this?