Episode 180: Embracing Your Journey | A Conversation with Mary Cox

At Last She Said It

Cynthia Winward

Religion & Spirituality, Feminism, Motherhood, Ldswomen, Spirituality, Lds, Thechurchofjesuschristoflatterdaysaints, Mormonwomen, Religion, Marriage, Mormon, Faith

5 • 900 Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2024

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Mary once put a vinyl motto above her kitchen door that read, “That’s What We Do!” It was a 4-word description of her life as a Latter-day Saint woman. For many years, she and her husband were “the couple who could get it done” at church. She describes looking back with grace for that younger self: “She was doing the best she could with what she knew. But she was exhausted and her children and family structure suffered. More importantly—she suffered.” Then Mary changed. In Episode 180, she joins Susan and Cynthia to talk about that change and rebuilding her spiritual life from the bottom up, with just 3 components in the foundation: “Love and Jesus and Me ... what else really matters?”

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0:00.0	That's when that shift happened is instead of rebuilding this tower with what the
0:10.4	Prophet said was important or the Bishop said was important. I really wanted to
0:14.5	rebuild this tower with what I felt was important and I had to dig for that because
0:18.6	they didn't know because everything had been given to me my whole life, right?
0:23.8	I didn't build this tower to begin with.
0:25.8	It was built for me, and I just kept adding things to it.
0:28.7	So what goes at the bottom of my tower, right?
0:31.8	My spiritual tower, well, it just had to start with
0:34.6	Jesus and love
0:39.2	hi I'm Susan Hinckley. And I am Cynthia Wynward.
0:44.2	And this is at last she said it.
0:46.0	We are Women of Faith discussing complicated things.
0:48.9	And the title of today's episode is Embracing Your Journey, a conversation with Mary Cox.
0:55.0	Hi Mary.
0:56.0	Well, hi.
0:58.0	We are so so happy to have you.
1:01.0	We have never met until this morning and so it's nice to make your
1:06.8	acquaintance but the great thing about it is everyone is about to make your
1:10.5	acquaintance and I think that that is going to help a lot of our listeners because here's the thing about you
1:17.2	Mary the reason we picked you out for this conversation is that we've been watching you
1:22.0	don't get creeped out but we've been watching you, don't get creeped out, but we've been watching you a little bit on our
1:28.4	sub-stack chats and you are a gifted online supporter.
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