Jule B. Beck, Mormon Women's Leader of Relief Society, Addresses Mormon Women at General Conference April 2010

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• Worldwide Mormon Woman Leader, Julie Beck, addresses Mormon Women in April General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Sister Julie Beck, worldwide leader of Mormon Women, addressed the membership and friends of other faiths in attendance at the 180th Annual Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (sometimes inadvertently called “The Mormon Church.”). There is not enough peace, she said, in the lives of Mormon women.

Traveling the world, Julie Beck noted the variety of challenges facing women–discouragement, distraction, daunting issues in families, and more–and noted the alluring and deceptive messages telling women, including Mormon women, that they deserve more time away from those responsibilities that are central to her peace and success. Julie Beck shared inspired sentiments that there is not enough peace in their lives.

Mormon Women’s Leader, Sister Beck Speaks on Revelation as Single Most Important Spiritual Skill
Sister Beck, Mormon leader of the global membership of women of The Church of Jesus Christ, declared that revelation is the single most important skill that can be acquired in this life.

Of the central need and opportunity to hear the Lord’s voice, Mormon woman, Sister Julie Beck, stated that “revelation can come hour by hour and moment by moment as we need it. Mothers can feel help from the Spirit even when they have noisy clamoring children,” she added. But, she noted, we forfeit that in a measure if we respond in anger. Keeping close to that Spirit is a powerful enabler, and the most powerful one, in being able to feel peace and know what, out of the millions of options to choose from, individual Mormon women can and should select in their own circumstance and given their own family situation.

Being in right places helps us have the Spirit,” said Sister Beck.  It gives us understanding to know what to do every day to increase personal righteousness, what to do in our home, and for those who need our help.

It is possible to feel bathed in help even in turbulent times.  We are told to trust this Spirit which will enlighten our minds. Promised revelation comes as we ask for, follow it, and trust that it will be there to help us.

Encouragingly, Sister Beck, shared the reminder that there is “not a wish or desire that Lord has implanted in our hearts that will not be realized.”

“Good women have always had a desire to know if they are succeeding,” Sister Beck added. One mental checklist includes this from Preach My Gospel. We are on track when:

• we develop attributes of Christ and strive to obey His gospel
• when we seek to improve ourselves
• when we increase in personal righteousness
• when we qualify for, receive, and follow the Holy Spirit.

We will experience disappointments but not be disappointed with ourselves. We need to measure our success properly.

As Joel prophetically says, and President Kimball echoed this,” much of the growth of this Church” will occur as many of the good [Mormon] women of the Church are seen as distinct and different in happy ways from the world, and will be those who will articulate the message.

I began to reflect on the Savior and His atonement. He drank the bitter cup. The metaphor hit me in a new sense. It occurred to me in a slightly different context, that He drank out of the cup of my infirmities, and literally experienced the side-effects just as I had, in a narrow sphere, experienced those of my daughter in a real way.

He experienced each symptom of spiritual and emotional malaise, every feverish effect of mortality, all the scratchiness that comes with living in the imperfect world which grants us experience of all kinds. He doesn’t just know our experiences in a general and collective way. He knows them specifically.

He drank the cup. He tred the winepress. He finished His work. He suffered for you and I. He knows our dregs and our joys.

He, too, then, can aid us through His grace, His power, to overcome. He can supply us with the water of life that we need to feel better, the nourishment to heal, the rest to recover and remain in His presence–much as we provide our children with the liquids, the best foods, the needed rest to recover from the acute and chronic ills of life.

I testify that He is real and that He lives, and that He did truly suffer and die for you and I, that we, through Him, might live eternally.

Just a thought for today. Let me know how the Savior has helped you through in your life.