Holding Grief and Hope

Holding Grief and HopeImage Description: A woman with a yellow halo cradling her arms. About the Artist: Born and raised in the mountains, Kristin Alley Carver is a graduate of the Fine Art (emphasis in printmaking) and Special Education programs through USU. Motherhood, nature, difficult experiences, and eternal questions inform much of her work. Crafting images to answer questions, record memories and impressions is an essential daily practice. She finds the physicality,

The Helena Montana Temple lit up in the evening

And honestly

he seeks to remind us of the divinity we all carry within ourselves as God's children

The powerful arms of His mother become symbolic of the life-giving and healing embrace of women throughout the human story-highlighting the essential feminine nature of atonement (3 Nephi 10:4)

but time and again

and by so doing

and the relentless undeserved kindness of it all

He has Forgiven you Lay your burden down

From the moment of His humble birth into this world

A wide variety of butterflies arranged in a circular pattern

Unexpectedly

In the song Consider the Lilies