I’ve always loved religious music. From many different beliefs, it tends to uplift and focus our thoughts upwards, on our “higher” selves and that in turn helps us to focus our goodwill outwards to those around us. The music of Mormonism is, naturally, the religious music that speaks the most to my heart, since it’s the music of my background, my heritage, and my faith. In recognition of the fact that sacred, worshipful music plays such a large and beautiful role in our lives and that we are surrounded by so much of God’s natural handiwork in this choice land that we live in, we’ve decided that on the
I’ll start this with a brief summary of part one and then pick up where I left off last week. To summarize: I was born and raised as faithfully as any youth is in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. I was exposed to very negative views of plural marriage as a child and discovered later that there was also a happy and blessed side to it. It wasn’t always just a trial and a hardship. I began to struggle with my testimony in relation to the LDS Church and the original teachings of the “New and Everlasting Covenant.” A few years after this, I began
“A certain man had two sons: And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his living. And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living. And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want. And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine. And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that
My wives have already given you a fairly thorough introduction to our family.
I’m well aware that I haven’t shared an introduction yet, or a post about my journey into plural marriage. There’s been a lot of discussion lately over the proper use of the term “Mormon” in describing adherents to the religious tenets taught originally by Joseph Smith. As it’s been a topic of interest lately, I’ve decided to delay my introduction for another week and put in my two cents concerning this topic.
Shortly after we got married, Tami, Colton and I were working through all the changes and figuring out how we all fit together in this newly chosen lifestyle. We all knew that communication was needed to help us through our struggles. We still had to figure out how to do that, how to understand each other, since we all had different communication styles, as well as different personalities.
We chose this week to postpone Sophie’s follow-up post until next week due to the anniversary date of a significant event we’d like to share with you. Today is a somewhat special day in Mormon Fundamentalism. Today is 132 years since an event that is known among our fellow Fundamentalists as the 1886 revelation. I’ll include the text of it below. It was a revelation written, it seems, in the hand of John Taylor, the third president of the LDS church. To sum it up, God has made His will concerning the New and Everlasting Covenant known. It’s an eternal law. He’s made His will plain on the matter.
Well, its kinda hard to write about yourself, but here we go… Hi everyone, My name is Sophie Winder. I’m Colton’s second wife, and we have been married for just over a year. I work a full time job, and am a midwifery apprentice. In marrying Colton and Tami, I have become a third generation plural wife.
What a crazy week it has been. Life has a way of getting away from you. At least it seems to for me.I have always seemed to struggle with balancing all the different things of life. I would be a terrible juggler, but I digress. The real thing I wanted to talk about in today’s post is also the real reason you are reading this and that is to learn more about why I decided to live in a plural marriage.
The beginning of a journey… My name is Tami Winder and I am Colton’s first wife. Colton and I have been married for 8 years, we have one child together so far and are hoping for more soon. I work part time but the job I love most is being a mom. A few years ago we came to the decision that we should live plural marriage, and not long after that we met Sophie.