Let it be messy, and let it be real, and just don’t worry. But it has to start with yourself, and then with your family, and it’s all one circle of love. He loves all his children, no matter where you are, and if you tap into that love then you can’t help but start seeing others who need love. We Are Made for Love and Light, Rachel von Niederhausern Catherine Thomas, Light in the Wilderness: Explorations in the Spiritual Life (Salt Lake City: Digital Legend Press, 2010), 7. Catherine Thomas says, “There is a perceptible world of Light beyond this one, but something must happen to our way of seeing our perception must be born again, in order that the spiritual blindness we’re subject to can give way to a comforting dimension of reality” (M. in, Clifford and Clifford, Women Who Kept the Lights: An Illustrated History of Female Lighthouse Keepers, 53-54.ģThe transformation into spiritual creatures begins with a new birth and ongoing conversion to spiritual ways of seeing.
(Alexandria, VA: Cypress Communications, 2000), 2.ĢAbbie Burgess Grant, qtd. Candace Clifford, Women Who Kept the Lights: An Illustrated History of Female Lighthouse Keepers, 2nd ed.
We do not condemn others for the amount of light they may or may not have rather, we nourish and encourage all light until it grows clear, bright, and true.”ġSee Clifford, Mary Louise, and J. Surely President Uchtdorf’s poetic declaration will resonate in Mormon thought and culture for years to come-“In the end, we are all pilgrims seeking God’s light as we journey on the path of discipleship. Our earthly task is to practice the daily transformation into eternal creatures, into bearers of the light that will grow brighter and brighter until the perfect day. We learn to always remember Christ’s sacrifice and to call on him for our every need. Our quest for Christ’s light is ongoing and will continue after we die. I love Abbie’s metaphysical question prompted by her decades-long dedication to watching the lamps-would her earthly duty continue after she dies? Abbie’s words offer such a perfect, ready metaphor for the life of the disciple of Christ and her relation to light.īy walking in the light of Christ, by tending it within ourselves, it truly becomes part of who we are. I wonder if the care of the lighthouse will follow my soul after it has left this worn out body!” 2 Many nights I have watched the lights my part of the night, and then could not sleep the rest of the night, thinking nervously what might happen should the light fail. It has always seemed to me that the light was part of myself. In her last letter, Abbie reflected on the task to which she had dedicated more than half of her life: “Sometimes I think the time is not far distant when I shall climb these lighthouse stairs no more. During one particularly ferocious storm-she was keeping the lights with the help of her mother and sisters but without the usual help of her father-she rushed outside to save all but one chicken in the family coop before a fierce tide completely destroyed an old dwelling nearby. 1Ībbie Burgess Grant helped tend two Maine lighthouses for 37 years. Many women unofficially served as interim keepers after their husband died and before someone new arrived. Twice as many assistant keepers were appointed to help their husbands or fathers. On ledgers dating from 1828 to 1905, around 122 women were listed in their own name as government-appointed lighthouse keepers. In 1792, lighthouses became federally owned, including the light at Gurnet Point. The first female lighthouse keeper (known) in the country was Hannah Thomas, who watched over the Gurnet Point Light Station in Massachusetts from 1776 to 1786. history’s little-known legacies is that of the women who kept and tended lighthouses from the eighteenth to early twentieth centuries. Behold, I am the light which ye shall hold up-that which ye have seen me do.
Therefore, hold up your light that it may shine unto the world.
#FIRST FEMALE LIGHTHOUSE KEEPER HOW TO#
To discuss the internalization of the light of Christ and how to be bearers of it.
#FIRST FEMALE LIGHTHOUSE KEEPER MANUAL#
The Gospel Doctrine lesson #15 objective as stated in the manual is “to strengthen class members’ testimonies that Jesus Christ is our Savior and that by following him we can gain true freedom.” Our Objective
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