Per usual, I come in saying I'm sorry I didn't keep things moving along on my blog. How can I love doing my hidden away blog and then neglect it? No excuses. My reality is just trying to get on top of MyLife. and Per Usual...as Eliza Doolittle would say...I got it!! Well, at least for the next 5 minutes!
I hope you had a memorable Easter. Easter is the most wondrous event for truly celebrating. This year I hear of more and more young families celebrating the impact and joy of this event by re-enacting the last week of the Saviors life and having special foods and telling the events of the days. I see figurines are available now to help tell the story. Similar to Nativity.
Did you make those Empty Tomb rolls? Maybe some of you did? Recipe here
Christmas always get total attention and even with gifts and Santa in the mix...Christ is still forefront. At least with my friends! But Easter? It seems like the Bunnies and the dyed eggs and the chocolate, edge out the enormity, the impact of Easter on our daily lives. Things seem to be changing though with most of the fun egg hunts etc. done on Saturday and Sunday worship being more of the Sabbath focus.
I love musical Sacrament meetings on Christmas and Easter. LOTS of music and purity in retelling the happenings of both events. I love Cantatas or well-chosen sacred music that backs up the scriptural events. As my Mother would say...That's my druthers.
Our Sacrament meeting today was so interesting. Yes, there was some music (not choir things). Primary/YW/Trio . Lovely!
The big event for me was the speakers. Their subject! Evidently they were asked to speak on Easter but not given a specific subject. Amazing to me, and heartfelt, they both were inspired to talk on the exact same subject, using the exact same event- the most recent Face to Face for the youth. The feeling that the Lord really wanted our Ward to hear the heart of this message was evident. Both of them were struck by the exact same thing. And I had been also when I first heard the event live.
Then I thought...did I tell you how I loved that event? am I losing my mind? did I tell you? did I not tell you? Briefly (and I'm sorry if I'm repeating myself!)...I loved the interaction between President Eyring and Elder Holland. I'd never seen them in a relaxed conversational manner. Nor any of the leaders for that matter! They had such respect for each other and Elder Holland has such esteem for President Eyring. It was so tender.
Most amazing to me...you know how I've studied to better understand how to access the Atonement? I've mentioned it several times and in this talk I learned (along with all the others that had been digging a hole with no end) that the Atonement is not something you access! The Atonement does not stand alone. My life is blessed by the result of the Atonement BUT the Atonement, and all that entailed, was Christs for the doing. It was His to accomplish and through my worship and love and following Christ I benefit from the Atonement that He did. I access Christ. I don't access the Atonement separate and apart. Through Christ's atonement my life can be blessed now and I will live forever.
It was such a profound experience to have that feeling wash over me when I listened to that Face by Face. I could hardly wait to talk to my Laurels about it! Maybe I did share my enthusiasm with you. My enthusiasm was rekindled by the talks today and that feeling of certainty permeated my soul again. It was a monumental Easter service. Thank you, Chelle and Fletcher!
They also mentioned forgiveness/repentance. That hit me also when I first heard it on the broadcast and again today I was reminded of the blessing of repentance. When Terry and I were reading the Book of Mormon together...Over and over people were urged and invited and pleaded with to repent. Reading as we did every day and reading a good chunk at a time, the invite for repentance was really in the forefront. Why? Because we cannot be saved IN our sins so we need to repent FROM our sins so they are blotted out. Erased. Gone. Nothing on the chalk board. Clean.
IF we repent, of every single thing, at death we will be free. IF we don't repent then we will not be free and will feel guilty. Repenting for me is something that I've struggled to really do. I make mistakes of judgment or something that just makes me feel so irritated on not acting on a prompting. It's the disappointment, soul deep, of that feeling of you knew better than that! Disappointment in myself for not doing what I know I should do and feeling capable of doing what I didn't do, is as tortuous to me as anything. (what a sentence!)
In our Book of Mormon reading we learned about the absolute necessity and importance of repenting and also understanding that even my disappointing human imperfections need to be dealt with. Repentance was mentioned over and over and over. Even the need of repenting if feeling unworthy of not doing better. Sometimes I have a sense of embarrassment that I conducted myself in a way that is unbecoming in my mind. I knew better! Not being a nit-picker but just saying...if it bothers you, whatever it is, then repent and move on. I'm trying to do that. (maybe I'm just being Co-D and standing alone. I hope not!)
Fletcher hit on the necessity of repentance and not listening to that inner voice, alluded to above, that prevents us repenting. Chelle hit on repenting, staying in a repentant state, so we can experience having the Holy Ghost with us and feel peace. They covered all the bases! One of those Sacrament days that I would loved to have applauded!
I enjoyed both of their talks so much and I too loved that Face to Face broadcast. IF you have not listened to it yet...you must! I felt like I was sitting at the feet of the Apostles and being instructed personally at that Broadcast. So did Chelle and Fletcher and so will you! here
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Sunday, April 16, 2017
Thursday, June 25, 2015
Hoping this helps....
A dear friend, is struggling with personal challenges right now and I told her I'd share some things about the Atonement. I started to look up my favorite quotes etc. and then realized that I'd put them in blog posts at different times. I see some from 2012, 2013 and 2015.
To my friend...My feelings about the Atonement and available help in our personal lives, through the Atonement, are in these posts. I know I mentioned, in at least one, that I used to think the power of the Atonement was for sin and then I learned-- it's for helping us deal with pain, not sin related, just plain old pain, brought on by our being mortal.
I hope this gives you some insight, as to the available powerful help, through accessing the gift of the Atonement. I hope it helps your intense suffering... to start to ease, to start to diminish, and you avail yourself, of this help, that you are entitled to. It's available for the asking, for the believing, and that means YOU!!!
IF these posts do not give you a start, on tapping into this bit of heavenly help...then let me know. As with all things in the Gospel-- we experiment and grow through the trying. Just like it states in Alma 32.
You are in my prayers. We will stay in touch. Love you, my dear friend. So sorry for your suffering. xoxoxox
Elder David A. Bednar counseled, “As you and I come to understand and employ the enabling power of the Atonement in our personal lives, we will pray and seek for strength to change our circumstances rather than praying for our circumstances to be changed. We will become agents who act rather than objects that are acted upon (see 2 Nephi 2:14)” (“The Atonement and the Journey of Mortality,” Ensign or Liahona, May 2012, 44)
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To my friend...My feelings about the Atonement and available help in our personal lives, through the Atonement, are in these posts. I know I mentioned, in at least one, that I used to think the power of the Atonement was for sin and then I learned-- it's for helping us deal with pain, not sin related, just plain old pain, brought on by our being mortal.
I hope this gives you some insight, as to the available powerful help, through accessing the gift of the Atonement. I hope it helps your intense suffering... to start to ease, to start to diminish, and you avail yourself, of this help, that you are entitled to. It's available for the asking, for the believing, and that means YOU!!!
IF these posts do not give you a start, on tapping into this bit of heavenly help...then let me know. As with all things in the Gospel-- we experiment and grow through the trying. Just like it states in Alma 32.
You are in my prayers. We will stay in touch. Love you, my dear friend. So sorry for your suffering. xoxoxox
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Elder David A. Bednar counseled, “As you and I come to understand and employ the enabling power of the Atonement in our personal lives, we will pray and seek for strength to change our circumstances rather than praying for our circumstances to be changed. We will become agents who act rather than objects that are acted upon (see 2 Nephi 2:14)” (“The Atonement and the Journey of Mortality,” Ensign or Liahona, May 2012, 44)
Friday, September 6, 2013
To soothe your aching heart...
It's a constant study to figure out how to apply the Atonement in our life. Everything is covered by the power of the Atonement. I used to think it was only helpful in sin. Over the years I've really sought to figure out how to use it in my life on a more constant basis. I was thrilled to learn that the application of the power of the atonement covers all pain and hurt.
I have friends that are struggling. Aching and hurting and suffering emotionally& spiritually plus physically. Hopefully they will draw strength from this old talk for 2006. It's going to zip through cyberspace and lodge in their hearts.
Take a peek and do yourself a favor by reading this address by Carol Rasmus.
... just look right here The Atonement
It's entitled The Enabling Power of the Atonement. She shares some of my most favorite sources. I LOVE this article. (This would sure make a great FHE.)
Ever thought in this light? I underlined the part that is such a startling truth and the way Elder Holland says it?....sigh. The Spirit witnessed to me that it is true.
Christ stands ready with outstretched arms as He waits for us to come unto Him and be encircled in the arms of His love (see D&C 6:20). It is here that we can be healed, nourished, loved, enabled, strengthened, and made whole. Although the trial may be hard and the relief may not be immediate, we need to learn to allow God to help carry our burdens. We can do this by turning to Him regularly to seek His enabling power.
I have friends that are struggling. Aching and hurting and suffering emotionally& spiritually plus physically. Hopefully they will draw strength from this old talk for 2006. It's going to zip through cyberspace and lodge in their hearts.
Take a peek and do yourself a favor by reading this address by Carol Rasmus.
... just look right here The Atonement
It's entitled The Enabling Power of the Atonement. She shares some of my most favorite sources. I LOVE this article. (This would sure make a great FHE.)
Ever thought in this light? I underlined the part that is such a startling truth and the way Elder Holland says it?....sigh. The Spirit witnessed to me that it is true.
Feel Confident in God’s Hands
On
the eve of Jesus Christ’s suffering in Gethsemane, He issued this
benediction to His disciples: “Peace I leave with you, my peace I give
unto you. … Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid” (John 14:27). Of this invitation, Elder Jeffrey R. Holland
of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles said, “[This] may be one of the
Savior’s commandments that is, even in the hearts of otherwise faithful
Latter-day Saints, almost universally disobeyed; and yet I wonder
whether our resistance to this invitation could be any more grievous to
the Lord’s merciful heart.” Elder Holland added, “I am convinced that
none of us can appreciate how deeply it wounds the loving heart of the
Savior of the world when he finds that his people do not feel confident
in his care or secure in his hands.”3
Christ stands ready with outstretched arms as He waits for us to come unto Him and be encircled in the arms of His love (see D&C 6:20). It is here that we can be healed, nourished, loved, enabled, strengthened, and made whole. Although the trial may be hard and the relief may not be immediate, we need to learn to allow God to help carry our burdens. We can do this by turning to Him regularly to seek His enabling power.
(Grace. I love the concept of Grace. The Gospel empowers us....if we want it to be a part of our lives then we need to include that enrichment in our daily lives)
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