Why Safety in Righteousness?

Welcome to the Aldershot Ward Relief Society Blog!

We are excited to begin this endeavour and enhance the feeling of community and sisterhood that we are already blessed to share in our ward. We want this to be a place where you can come any time, day or night, to gain inspiration, insights and hopefully some answers to life's trials and triumphs. We hope you will comment often on what is being shared, and also that you will feel free to make suggestions as to how we can improve this site to fill your needs. This is a very fluid blog and we will adjust things accordingly as time progresses.

We are mindful that each of you have things going on in your lives - that life is busy and challenging and wonderful and occasionally really hard. We are mindful that each of us needs, as the scriptures teach, a: “defense, and for a refuge from the storm, and from wrath when it shall be poured out without mixture upon the whole earth” (D&C 115:6). In his First Presidency message in October 2008, President Uchtdorf asked "how do we find such a place of safety?" and then answered it with a quote from President Hinckley:

“Our safety lies in the virtue of our lives. Our strength lies in our righteousness.”

Ultimately, we want to use this blog as a tool to forward the goal that we have as a ward Relief Society - that each sister will come to know for herself the very real truth that safety from the storms of our lives lies in our personal righteousness.

Each month we will be discussing a potential storm that each of us faces along with talks from the Ensign to assist us and then offering the opportunity for you to share thoughts and ideas as to how we combat that particular storm in righteous and practical ways. Not only do we want this to be a place of safety for you; we would love the things we share here to help you create places of safety in other environments you are often a part of.

We hope you know how much we love you and pray for you and thank you for everything you do to make our ward a place of safety for others. We hope that we can reach out to you in an uplifting and practical way through the thoughts we post here.

Lots of love

Fiona, Sarah, Louise and Ruth