PROVO — Single parents who rely on God for answers, accept the support of others and free themselves emotionally by giving their angry or vengeful emotions to Christ can find success with one of life's most difficult challenges.

Those were the messages shared by three panelists Thursday during the first day of the annual Women's Conference at Brigham Young University.

Lynan Buie, Elizabeth Funk and Brad Mosteller agreed that single parenting had forced them to rely on God and listen to the inspiration of the Holy Ghost in ways they had never done before.

Buie, who became a single parent 14 years ago when her daughter was 2, said after repeated attempts to pray in a general way about her circumstances without success, she learned to ask specific questions and have faith that the answers would come.

When she presented God with two choices for her daughter, neither of which seemed appealing, she found "he brought another choice to me that I hadn't even considered and was not aware of. It was a little odd for other people, but it still works for me today."

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