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Rachel Hunt Steenblik and Ashley Mae Hoiland are pilgrims, dreamers, explorers in search of our Heavenly Mother and the country where she dwells. Together they have created a record of their journey, an exploration in visual and literary art, of their search. They search everywhere--looking back at mothers and grandmothers and forward to mothering their own daughters and sons. They consider giving birth, nursing, and nurturing children as experiences women share with their Mother. They examine seasons, maple trees, the moon, dragonflies, spiders, bears and eagles as metaphors for Her beauty, fierceness, and power. They re-read, re-write, and re-interpret scripture to apply to women as well as men. They consider Eve, Mary, Emmeline, Emma, Sophia, Penelope, Hannah, and many other women for clues. They learn individual lessons about Mother from a broad community of friends, family, writers, and poets (the sources are indicated in page after page of notes at the end of the collection). Hoiland's drawings, evocative in both line and color, invite a deeper and prolonged attention to Hunt Steenblik's poems. These two fine artists attempt to reach through language and visual art toward spiritual truth.That attempt requires openness, simplicity, repetition, pauses, and space for the reader. This is a book to read slowly, to consider, to savor. The gifts it offers will last.
--Susan Elizabeth Howe, co-editor of Discoveries Two Centuries of Poems by Mormon Women and author of Salt
Read Online I Gave Her a NameDeluxe Full Color Edition Rachel Hunt Steenblik Ashley Mae Hoiland 9781948218139 Books
"I loved Mother’s Milk, and I loved I Gave Her a Name. This collection shows that Rachel’s relationship with the Mother has matured and deepened, particularly through her experience with soul-wrenching grief. I learn so much about who She is every time I turn to Rachel’s work. I cannot recommend these collections enough. We are commanded "seek, and ye shall find." I Gave Her a Name is a perfect resource for those seeking our Mother. The words are healing and the illustrations are gorgeous (even in B&W). We do not live in a Motherless house."
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- Rachel Hunt Steenblik stuns me again with another exquisite volume of her original poetry. This collection captures and distills many grown up experiences; not just of motherhood and family, but of responsibility, loss, and carrying on--as we all must do. Rachel spins poems that are both deeply personal and universal and I always end up reading for longer than intended, it's a wonderful reason to stay up a few minutes later.
- I Gave Her A Name is full of beautiful, heartfelt poems that bring Heavenly Mother's presence into your heart and invite you to come to know Her again and again. Rachel Hunt Steenblik's poems are a gift bridging the gap between the often absent discussion of Heavenly Mother by making Her present in the simple moments of everyday life. I have loved incorporating Mother's Milk poems in lessons and talks and I am grateful for even more lovely poems!
- This book of poetry is just as beautiful and just as fulfilling as its precursor, Mother's Milk. It fills my heart and helps me know all that I was missing, and gives me permission to seek and find my Heavenly Mother.
- I can’t say how much I loved I Gave Her a Name! This book is so comforting, And loving, powerful, and intuitive. The artwork adds to the comforting and creative tone of the book as well. I can’t recommend this book enough.
- Before I came across Mother’s Milk, I was one of those people who didn’t think much about Heavenly Mother. Looking for answers made me uncomfortable and nervous, but that book of poetry brought the Spirit into the subject like I had never felt before. I Gave Her a Name is a magnificent companion to that book. What I love most is the way the most normal of things are traced back to Her. Reading these poems has made me realize how every single thing in my life is a reflection of my Heavenly Mother. I cannot recommend it highly enough! This is going to be my go-to gift of the year.
- I loved Mother’s Milk, and I loved I Gave Her a Name. This collection shows that Rachel’s relationship with the Mother has matured and deepened, particularly through her experience with soul-wrenching grief. I learn so much about who She is every time I turn to Rachel’s work. I cannot recommend these collections enough. We are commanded "seek, and ye shall find." I Gave Her a Name is a perfect resource for those seeking our Mother. The words are healing and the illustrations are gorgeous (even in B&W). We do not live in a Motherless house.
- This is beautiful work. In reading it I am brought closer to Heavenly Mother.
- Sometimes we feel deep inside of ourselves that something is missing, something needs to change. It's easy to look around at the world, feel the heartbreak, and experience despair. But I have learned that when that aching is coupled with vision, hope is born. Hope truly is the capacity to see in vision, in our hearts, "a better world." Hunt-Steenblik and Hoiland's book does two remarkable things 1) it provides with stunningly simple language and with vibrant color a vision of a world full of the power of the divine feminine, and 2) it reveals that we are already living in that world. By drawing attention to the ways in which Heavenly Mother sustains us in our daily moments of joy and sorrow, the book teaches women and men how to live in the "better world" now, how to show great love with simple words and with sunbursts of color. This book brings both hope and power to my home.
