Friday, December 20, 2013
Crisis and challenges in the home.
This last week of class was inspiring we learned so much about the pain of divorce and the influence hurt parents can have on their children. Usually when people get divorced you almost never here the full story you either get one side or the other and both are filled with one sided truths. The truth off it all is we all make mistakes and every human being has a heart that is just as breakable as the next one and one of the saddest things in life is letting personal verandas and hurt feelings corrupt the innocent in their ways of thinking when really this is not their problem or their fight.
Saturday, November 9, 2013
The Lost Beauty of Intimacy.
I find it so sad how the world has began to perceive sexual intimacy. The is a true beauty in a husband and wife who are faithful to each other sharing in that intimacy it brings a strength that is unparalleled because they share something with each other that is just between them. On a similar note husbands and wives should not be afraid to spend that special side of them with each other. The point i ma simply trying to make is that the people need to know that sex is not bad there is just a time and a place for it. That time and that place is is in a full committed marriage, when it is that way it becomes more than a pastime as the world sees it, it becomes divine.
Saturday, October 26, 2013
Doubts of Dating
this week was very interesting in class because a lot of what we talked about was dating and that is something that i have never struggled with. the world is beginning to grow blind for the purpose of dating. which is sad because you can learn so much about other people and most importantly you find out who you are and what you really want out of life.
Sunday, October 20, 2013
The Confusion of the world
To much of the world is confused about what is expected of men and women, in fact a lot of the world assumes that what is expected of men and women are the same, well news flash if we were meant to be the same thing and accomplish the same thing God would have created us the same, well the last time I checked there is a significant difference between me and my soon to be wife. We are different but that is the beauty of it all that is one of the divine purposes of our mortal existence, to grow and learn from one another's differences. O to often people say "there is no difference in gender people can chose whatever gender they want and to think of men and women as different is discrimination" well let me speak my mind. My belief is we were all created to be what we were created as, I believe all men were created equal, the right to be equally respected, equally loved, and to have equal opportunity, but that does not mean we all were created and or have the same purpose. A dishwasher and a microwave both are common appliances in a kitchen and just because there purposes are different does not make one more important than the other, and in a similar note I cannot get angry at my dishwasher because it cant worm up my left overs or get mad at my microwave because it doesn't clean my dishes. So it is with all of us, I cant hope to be or do what my Grandmother, mother, sister, and wife can and have accomplished but i can be the best grandson, son, brother, and husband that I can be to the best of my abilities. There is a beauty in this completeness and a true happiness in the knowledge that men and women can truly be proud of who what they are and that together they can accomplish more and find greater joy than they ever could alone.
Saturday, October 12, 2013
Culture and family.
Our discussions on culture and its role in the family this week have been quite eye opening. to often we look at cultures as this barrier that separates the way people live usually recognized by country or race, but the truth is most of the time Culture is not a barrier to separate and block but a doorway to teach and show how much there really is in the world. Culture is a form of being, a declaration of who we are and what we believe and it is not bound by country limits or race but is all around us. my good friend from next door was raised in a similar but yet different culture than I was, you cant stop it but you can change it. I believe the culture we should try to surround ourselves with the most is one of love and family.
Friday, October 11, 2013
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Saturday, October 5, 2013
Week Three
There was a lot this week I found interesting but the most fascinating thing we experienced i found was when we did the mock therapy session. I was fascinated at how Brother Williams worked off other people's emotions and a central love for the child to bring the parents together. It really showed how easily people can grow apart but also that they can grow back together with the right motivation. The hard part is finding the right motivation that will be powerful enough to restore the family to a healthy state.
Saturday, September 28, 2013
Interesting week of discussion.
I found it very fascinating this week how worried the world is about population. Weather it is growing or decreasing someone is always complaining, if the population is increasing some people will say we have to stop having children we are going to use up all our resources. On the flip side if the population starts to decrease people say we have to replenish the population in order to keep creating resources. so it is a complex battle. Due to peoples views and opinions some governments have attempted to control the amount of children or size of family's. But my belief is, let God work where and how he will and allow husbands and wives to fulfill that first commandment given to the children of men (multiply and replenish the earth) to whatever degree they see fit. It is the right of no man to dictate ungodly power over wholesome family's who are simply attempting to do there best to live as God would have them live: In family's. That is just my humble opinion.
Saturday, September 21, 2013
Well this is my first attempt to blog for my family relations class. We have only had three classes so far but believe me those classes have been filled with information. we have learned a lot about conducting proper research when studding the family. At first i wondered why we would spend so much time on the importance of research but then it hit me, if the family truly is the most important social unit of our mortal experience and encouraging the family one of our most important duties then we can not offered to miss represent the family or shed ill light upon it. If we were to present the idea and concept of the family for less than what it really is or what is meant to be then are are not only failing our faith we are failing or future.
(I hope everything is spelled right i am a bit dyslexic)
(I hope everything is spelled right i am a bit dyslexic)
Wednesday, September 18, 2013
Sunday, July 29, 2012
San Diego Sealing - Not mine
I Love you Scott and Marcie!
RIGHTEOUS!!!! I'm in Cali!!!!
The day before the wedding we went down to scope things out and prep, so I took the opportunity to strike a pose - or two.... I am a POSER!
The Trio - Marcie, Scott and me.
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A couple of my companions were able to come to the sealing.
From L-R, Elder Williams, Nino Ray (good friend), Elder Chambers and myself.
And of course, the happy couple down front.
I got the picture of us taking the picture but never got the picture that was being taken.
(Or... I lost it, I don't know which.)
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YES!!!! I have proof that dad was there.
"Whadda you think?" "I don't know, Whadda you think?" "BJ's Root Beer. That's what I think."
Don't worry, my entire mission I never got a normal picture of Chambers,...
and apparently this is no exception.
Aunt Shirly and Brother Gifford.
Alas, Food!
Just to top off a marvelous day.
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| Oh Cody, Your Dad's here? We just noticed.. Hi Brother Cunningham! |
The Bradley Building.
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One of the Best Buildings. :-)
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My ride home.
(I wish).
Thank you Marcie and Scott for a wonderful time. My father and I enjoyed it tremendously.
Congratulations you two.
Sunday, July 1, 2012
Happy Independence Day!
Let's get everyone we know to read the Declaration of Independence on this 4th of July. Read it to your family and friends at your cook-out or other celebration. Every citizen needs to understand what we are celebrating this coming Wednesday.
And while you are at it take time to read:
Our Divine Constitution by Ezra Taft Benson October 1987 - The greatest talk I have found on the Constitution.
My
beloved brethren and sisters, what a glorious blessing to be assembled
in another great general conference of the Church. I ask for an interest
in your faith and prayers as I speak to you about a subject that is
very close to my heart and that affects the worldwide Church.
We
have recently celebrated the bicentennial of the signing of the United
States Constitution. That commemoration marked the beginning of a series
of bicentennial anniversaries of events leading up to the ratification
of the Constitution, implementation of the government it created, and
the writing and ratification of the Bill of Rights. We look forward to
the future commemoration of each of these important events during the
next four years. It is as a result of these events that we are able to
meet today in peace as members of the restored Church of Jesus Christ. For this we should all be eternally grateful.
I desire, therefore, to speak to you about our divine Constitution, which the Lord said “belongs to all mankind” (D&C 98:5; italics added) “and should be maintained for the rights and protection of all flesh, according to just and holy principles” (D&C 101:77; italics added).
The Constitution of the United States has served as a model for many nations and is the oldest constitution in use today.
“I
established the Constitution of this land,” said the Lord, “by the
hands of wise men whom I raised up unto this very purpose” (D&C 101:80).
For
centuries the Lord kept America hidden in the hollow of His hand until
the time was right to unveil her for her destiny in the last days. “It
is wisdom that this land should be kept as yet from the knowledge of
other nations,” said Lehi, “for behold, many nations would overrun the
land, that there would be no place for an inheritance” (2 Ne. 1:8).
In
the Lord’s due time His Spirit “wrought upon” Columbus, the pilgrims,
the Puritans, and others to come to America. They testified of God’s
intervention in their behalf (see 1 Ne. 13:12–13). The Book of Mormon records that they humbled “themselves before the Lord; and the power of the Lord was with them” (1 Ne. 13:16).
Our
Father in Heaven planned the coming forth of the Founding Fathers and
their form of government as the necessary great prologue leading to the
restoration of the gospel. Recall what our Savior Jesus Christ
said nearly two thousand years ago when He visited this promised land:
“For it is wisdom in the Father that they should be established in this
land, and be set up as a free people by the power of the Father, that
these things might come forth” (3 Ne. 21:4). America, the land of liberty, was to be the Lord’s latter-day base of operations for His restored church.
The Declaration of Independence affirmed the Founding Fathers’ belief and trust in God
in these words: “We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men
are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain
inalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit
of Happiness.”
The Doctrine and Covenants
states, “We believe that no government can exist in peace, except such
laws are framed and held inviolate as will secure to each individual the
free exercise of conscience, the right and control of property, and the
protection of life” (D&C 134:2). Life, liberty, property—mankind’s three great rights.
At
the conclusion of the Declaration of Independence, they wrote, “And for
the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection
of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our
Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.” This Declaration was a promise that
would demand terrible sacrifice on the part of its signers. Five of the
signers were captured as traitors and tortured before they died. Twelve
had their homes ransacked and burned. Two lost their sons in the
Revolutionary War; another had two sons captured. Nine died from wounds
or from the hardships of the war. The Lord said He “redeemed the land by
the shedding of blood” (D&C 101:80). Nephi recorded that the Founders “were delivered by the power of God out of the hands of all other nations” (1 Ne. 13:19).
The
years immediately preceding the Constitutional Convention were filled
with disappointments and threats to the newly won peace. Washington was
offered a kingship, which he adamantly refused. Nephi had prophesied
hundreds of years before that “this land shall be a land of liberty unto
the Gentiles, and there shall be no kings upon the land” (2 Ne. 10:11; italics added).
Between
the critical years of 1783 and 1787, an outsider viewing the affairs of
the United States would have thought that the thirteen states,
different in so many ways, could never effectively unite. The world
powers were confident that this nation would not last.
Eventually,
twelve of the states met in Philadelphia to address the problem.
Madison said at the beginning of the Convention that the delegates “were
now digesting a plan which in its operation would decide forever the
fate of Republican Government” (26 June 1787, Records of the Federal Convention, 1:423).
“The
Lord knoweth all things from the beginning,” said Nephi, “wherefore, he
prepareth a way to accomplish all his works among the children of men” (1 Ne. 9:6).
Four
months later, the Convention delegates had completed their work. As
Gladstone said, it was “the most wonderful work ever struck off at a
given time by the brain and purpose of man” (William Gladstone, North American Review, Sept.–Oct. 1878, p. 185), and the Prophet Joseph Smith called it “a glorious standard … a heavenly banner” (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, sel. Joseph Fielding Smith, Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Co., 1938, p. 147).
The
delegates were the recipients of heavenly inspiration. James Madison,
often referred to as the father of the Constitution, wrote: “It is
impossible for the man of pious reflection not to perceive in it a
finger of that Almighty hand which has been so frequently and signally
extended to our relief in the critical stages of the revolution” (The Federalist, no. 37, ed. Henry Cabot Lodge, New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1983, p. 222).
Alexander Hamilton, famous as the originator of The Federalist
papers and author of fifty-one of the essays, said: “For my own part, I
sincerely esteem it a system, which without the finger of God, never
could have been suggested and agreed upon by such a diversity of
interest” (Essays on the Constitution of the United States, ed. Paul L. Ford, 1892, pp. 251–52).
Charles
Pinckney, a very active participant and author of the Pinckney Plan
during the Convention, said: “When the great work was done and
published, I was struck with amazement. Nothing less than the
superintending Hand of Providence, that so miraculously carried us
through the war … could have brought it about so complete, upon the
whole” (Essays on the Constitution, p. 412).
Within
ten months, the Constitution was ratified by nine states and was
therefore in force for them. Prophecy had been fulfilled.
During
his first inaugural address in 1789, President George Washington, a man
who was raised up by God, said: “No people can be bound to acknowledge
and adore the invisible hand, which conducts the affairs of men, more
than the people of the United States. Every step by which they have
advanced to the character of an independent nation seems to have been
distinguished by some token of providential agency” (First Inaugural Address, 30 Apr. 1789).
In
compliance with Article 6 of the Constitution, the very first act
passed by Congress and signed by President Washington on June 1, 1789,
was the actual oath to support the Constitution that was to be
administered to various government officers.
The
dedicatory prayer for the Kirtland Temple, as dictated by the Lord and
found in the Doctrine and Covenants, contains these words: “May those
principles, which were so honorably and nobly defended, namely, the
Constitution of our land, by our fathers, be established forever” (D&C 109:54).
Shortly
after President Spencer W. Kimball became President of the Church, he
assigned me to go into the vault of the St. George Temple and check the
early records. As I did so, I realized the fulfillment of a dream I had
had ever since learning of the visit of the Founding Fathers to the St.
George Temple. I saw with my own eyes the record of the work which was
done for the Founding Fathers of this great nation, beginning with
George Washington.
Think
of it: the Founding Fathers of this nation, those great men, appeared
within those sacred walls and had their vicarious work done for them.
President
Wilford Woodruff spoke of it in these words: “Before I left St. George,
the spirits of the dead gathered around me, wanting to know why we did
not redeem them. Said they, ‘You have had the use of the Endowment House
for a number of years, and yet nothing has ever been done for us. We
laid the foundation of the government you now enjoy, and we never
apostatized from it, but we remained true to it and were faithful to
God’” (The Discourses of Wilford Woodruff, sel. G. Homer Durham, Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1946, p. 160).
After
he became President of the Church, President Wilford Woodruff declared
that “those men who laid the foundation of this American government were
the best spirits the God of heaven could find on the face of the earth.
They were choice spirits … [and] were inspired of the Lord” (in
Conference Report, Apr. 1898, p. 89).
Unfortunately,
we as a nation have apostatized in various degrees from different
Constitutional principles as proclaimed by the inspired founders. We are
fast approaching that moment prophesied by Joseph Smith when he said:
“Even this nation will be on the very verge of crumbling to pieces and
tumbling to the ground, and when the Constitution is upon the brink of
ruin, this people will be the staff upon which the nation shall lean,
and they shall bear the Constitution away from the very verge of
destruction” (19 July 1840, as recorded by Martha Jane Knowlton Coray;
ms. in Church Historian’s Office, Salt Lake City).
For
centuries our forefathers suffered and sacrificed that we might be the
recipients of the blessings of freedom. If they were willing to
sacrifice so much to establish us as a free people, should we not be
willing to do the same to maintain that freedom for ourselves and for
future generations?
Only
in this foreordained land, under its God-inspired Constitution and the
resulting environment of freedom, was it possible to have established
the restored church. It is our responsibility to see that this freedom
is perpetuated so that the Church may more easily flourish in the
future.
The
Lord said, “Therefore, I, the Lord, justify you, and your brethren of
my church, in befriending that law which is the constitutional law of
the land” (D&C 98:6).
How
then can we best befriend the Constitution in this critical hour and
secure the blessings of liberty and ensure the protection and guidance
of our Father in Heaven?
First and foremost, we must be righteous.
John
Adams said, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious
people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” (The Works of John Adams,
ed. C. F. Adams, Boston: Little, Brown Co., 1851, 4:31). If the
Constitution is to have continuance, this American nation, and
especially the Latter-day Saints, must be virtuous.
The
Book of Mormon warns us relative to our living in this free land:
“Wherefore, this land is consecrated unto him whom he shall bring. And
if it so be that they shall serve him according to the commandments
which he hath given, it shall be a land of liberty unto them; wherefore,
they shall never be brought down into captivity; if so, it shall be
because of iniquity; for if iniquity shall abound cursed shall be the
land for their sakes, but unto the righteous it shall be blessed
forever” (2 Ne. 1:7).
“And
now,” warned Moroni, “we can behold the decrees of God concerning this
land, that it is a land of promise; and whatsoever nation shall possess
it shall serve God, or they shall be swept off when the fulness of his
wrath shall come upon them. And the fulness of his wrath cometh upon
them when they are ripened in iniquity” (Ether 2:9).
Two
great American Christian civilizations—the Jaredites and the
Nephites—were swept off this land because they did not “serve the God of
the land, who is Jesus Christ” (Ether 2:12). What will become of our civilization?
Second, we must learn the principles of the Constitution in the tradition of the Founding Fathers.
Have we read The Federalist
papers? Are we reading the Constitution and pondering it? Are we aware
of its principles? Are we abiding by these principles and teaching them
to others? Could we defend the Constitution? Can we recognize when a law
is constitutionally unsound? Do we know what the prophets have said
about the Constitution and the threats to it?
As
Jefferson said, “If a nation expects to be ignorant and free … it
expects what never was and never will be” (Letter to Colonel Charles
Yancey, 6 Jan. 1816).
Third, we must become involved in civic affairs to see that we are properly represented.
The
Lord said that “he holds men accountable for their acts in relation” to
governments “both in making laws and administering them” (D&C 134:1).
We must follow this counsel from the Lord: “Honest men and wise men
should be sought for diligently, and good men and wise men ye should
observe to uphold; otherwise whatsoever is less than these cometh of
evil” (D&C 98:10).
Note the qualities that the Lord demands of those who are to represent us. They must be good, wise, and honest.
Fourth, we must make our influence felt by our vote, our letters, our teaching, and our advice.
We
must become accurately informed and then let others know how we feel.
The Prophet Joseph Smith said: “It is our duty to concentrate all our
influence to make popular that which is sound and good, and unpopular
that which is unsound. ‘Tis right, politically, for a man who has
influence to use it. … From henceforth I will maintain all the influence
I can get” (History of the Church, 5:286).
I
have faith that the Constitution will be saved as prophesied by Joseph
Smith. It will be saved by the righteous citizens of this nation who
love and cherish freedom. It will be saved by enlightened members of
this Church—among others—men and women who understand and abide the
principles of the Constitution.
I
reverence the Constitution of the United States as a sacred document.
To me its words are akin to the revelations of God, for God has placed
His stamp of approval upon it.
I
testify that the God of heaven sent some of His choicest spirits to lay
the foundation of this government, and He has now sent other choice
spirits to help preserve it.
We,
the blessed beneficiaries of the Constitution, face difficult days in
America, “a land which is choice above all other lands” (Ether 2:10).
May
God give us the faith and the courage exhibited by those patriots who
pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.
May we be equally as valiant and as free, I pray in the name of Jesus Christ, amen.
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