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Sunday, September 30, 2007

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Sunday, September 16, 2007

Some things I feel we need to take time to PONDER

I was able last Saturday to go to TimeOut for Women with Mom and Brigitte. Barb was also there. For me it was absolutely AWESOME and very rewarding. I will share some of the things that I learned so that I hope you will take time to look at them in the scriptures or think about them...
THEME: Life, Love and Learning

The Lord know the shoes you are walking in now. Embracing the season that you are in right now. You must alwasy allow the Lord to use you....for whatever you may not understand what or why but let Him guide you. What shoes to wear and where to wear them... Our stands are not socially noticeable. Never be embarassed to be a MOTHER. Get your education.
Read the words to the hymn Sweet Hour of Prayer.

Last chapters of Judges...a bit rough for that day and age but not so rough now. Ruth gives dignity to mankind.
The Lord must like the number 7...he dips the man he wanted to heal seven times and he rested on the seventh day and and all 7 dippings of together brouhgt the healing process to the sick.

Be of Good Cheer...What would the Saviour's seed store look like????
Qualities that we want
Moroni 7:45
Pray with all the energy of heart...
Take time for charitable opportunities
PONDERING PONDERING Ensign May 1982
We need to be Gospel Believers and Gospel LIVERS---hahahaha
Keep track of our sould food like we would do if we were keeping track of calories each day in our bodies. Spirits growl? We know they are hungry....
Remember = to think == to ponder
When we think negative of ourselves ......................we get negative
Doctrine and Covanents 6:16 Peace I leave with you, peace I give unto you, etc....
We all have BROKEN DREAMS
Neal Maxwell said "If it's fair it is not a trial." Think about the book the Unsinkable Molly Brown...Our problems do NOT need to identify US.
Doctrine and Covanents 98:3
This is my choice and this is what I am going to do about it.
Matthew 11--------------weary and laden, my yoke is His name, my yoke is easy and my burden light. When we are hurting you want to blame someone else. The Lord carries our burdens. What is it I want ? What is it the Lord wants? We leave go on our agendas/He will give us more than we deserve...Heavenly PERSPECTIVE
read the Hymn --Be Still My Soul
THE POWER OF LOVE READ JOHN 4...we learn of women's purpose in the temples. To love another person is to see the face of God.

Then I came home and took this week and read wonderful book that I wish each one of my family and friends would read. If you read this book we would all (i hope) get our lives in perspective...THE GIFT...A true story of life, death and trust Charles W. Allen

I learned a lot about the sin of a child John 9 :1-3
Spencer W. Kimball "give us this day our daily bread" in the Lord's prayer...present-day terminology-principles tolive our lives=yesterday is a canceled check. Tomorrow is a promissory note. But today is cash and my young missionaries the Lord deals in cash. His counsel was for as not to worry about the past or daydream about the future but to remain firmly anchored in today's activities.
Doctrine and Covanents 58:3-4 tribulation
The stroy of Stillman Pond
Here then is a great truth. In the pain and the agony and the heroic endeavors of life, we pass trough a refiner's fire, and the insignicant and the unimportant in our lives can melt away like dross and make our faith bright, intact and strong. In this way the divine image can be mirrored from the soul. It is part of the purging toll exacted of some to become acquainted with God. In the agonies of life, we seem to listen better to the faint, godly whisperings of the Divine Shepard. James E. Faust April 1979
Orson F. Whitney, Improvement Ear November 1918, p. 7---To whom do we look, in days of grief and disaster, for help and consolation? They are the man and women who have suffered, and out of their experience in suffering they bring forth the riches of their sympathy and condolences as a blessing to those now in need. Could they do this if they had not suffered themselves?
Is not this God's purpose in causing his children to suffer? He wants them to become more like Himself . God has suffered far more than man did or ever will, and is therefore the great source of sympathy and consolation.

The book is so powerful and I don't want to say anything else about it but enjoy and take time to read and not have a self-pity there are many people and families that have it worse then we EVER WILL.

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