192. An opportunity to reflect on what it means to be a “Holy Woman”

During the recent RS conference I attended, Sis. Nelson encouraged us to be “Holy Women” and find specific ways and situations we can strive to be holy women by asking ourselves, “What would a holy woman do?” My favourite example she gave was of a mother who made a commitment to read her scriptures everyday but one day when she had sat down to read her scriptures, her young child came wanting her assistance with something. She asked herself, “What would a holy woman do?” At that moment she knew her child needed her and she could return to her scripture reading later that day.

Today, I had an experience where someone called me Sara multiple times although I corrected her (it’s Sara-Jayne); I could feel myself feeling pretty annoyed. I took a step away from the group I was with and actually asked myself, “What would a holy woman do?” I determined that I shouldn’t take it too personally as most people with hyphenated names do go by just the first part of their name. I am going to try not correcting people repeatedly (just smile and nod) and perhaps they will realize on their own that I prefer to be called Sara-Jayne. J