You might drift over to what has been considered the rebuttal of Mothers Who Know given at the next conference session by Elder Ballard. Every week they strive to prepare for that sacred ordinance with a broken heart and a contrite spirit (see 3Nephi 9:20). And, as your mother, I will miss the delicious pie during a relaxing third hour of church. There is a *big* difference a HUGE difference between being *foreordained* to something and actually **BEING** something, as is made very clear in the temple. I have been avoiding the mother's day sacrament meeting for the last couple of years. Women are saved in child bearing is good as always. Im not going tomorrow. Yeah, it would be pretty late to be thinking about music now. Im sorry too for the harshness In my expression in a previous thread regarding your views of sacrament meeting. Families are good about this but public acknowledgement is hard to come by. I dont like the sappy talks about the perfect mothers. The perfect hymn for Mothers Day Sacrament meeting. Ive been jinxed. Can I suggest NOT sending the youth out hunting all women? I guess plants are pretty and mothers are pretty. Support Epic Family Fun! This morning I decided to Google search Mothers Day LDS talks and came upon this article. From all accounts, her talk was very well received. Motherhood as a path to choose to be a better disciple of Christ by caring for those Christ lives.feed my sheep, etc. I havent had a bad Mothers Day since I divorced my ex and the day stopped being about making my kids miserable so that he could appear to be a good husband. Well at least I know what not to talk about. The primary children sing and we are making a mothers day gift in primary. I dont want to hear Sister Becks controversial mothers who know talk, or president bensons talk come home talk. So, I am assigned to give a talk next week. It is the essence of who we are as women. My mother died just a little less than a year ago, and I find that I never appreciated Mothers Day at all until now that my mother is gone. Actually now that I do have children, the primary song Im so glad when Daddy comes home has taken on a new meaning for me. I think mixing it up, at least every other year, from Mother I Love You, is nice as a mom. It would just be nice to complete our idealism with a good dose of reality. Enter your email address to follow BCC and receive new posts by email. Too much idealism masks reality and can quickly become propaganda and lies. Diabetic others, for example. . Pres Hinckley and apparently Mark has it right. #109 Rayloved the roller coaster quote on motherhood. Is this our Sharon Haynie from DN branch? I feel for how it hurts people to attend church and the sorrows they bear. I always had this huge chip on my shoulder about refusing the flowers because I wasnt a mom (I had kids later in life), but my own mother would force me to take it because it was a free flower. How about honoring our mothers by not just focusing on what they do or have done for us (guilt trip for those that feel they never do enough) but focus on ways the members can help their mothers throughout each stage of their life. This is the same reason we do not have missionary farewells any longer. Don't subscribe Not at church anyway. What are we trying to create? Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Replies to my comments It might be that it was a holiday originally conceived by the US Socialist Party and propagated by the Soviets. Although with good intentions, speakers usually put mothers and motherhood on a pedestal ("Mothers are loving and caring and naturally nurturing", "A mother's love is the closest thing to Christlike love on earth", "No mother is perfect, except my mom, who is literally an . It is as if we cannot celebrate anything because if we focus on single day to celebrate one person then we have decimated everyone else. They want to give a message of comfort and support to other parents who are navigating the difficult conflicts that can arise in families around this issue. He also discussed the importance of placing motherhood first in our lives but not allowing the pressures of motherhood to sap us of joy. More importantly, which meeting do you thinkwould be more likely to provide meaningful support? But I still think the Dove bars our bishop chooses rock the holiday. Doesn't seem strange in a religion that supposedly is so family focused? When we value families so strongly we should celebrate the roles of motherhood and fatherhood. And Im batting clean up. Motherhood as a path to choose to be a better disciple of Christ by caring for those Christ loves.feed my sheep, etc.https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2014/04/wanted-hands-and-hearts-to-hasten-the-work?lang=eng. This post should be required reading for all Mothers Day speakers. each year when I plan the Mother's Day sacrament meeting I feel an extra bit of pressure to make it special for our wives and mothers. But Ive also read this: 40 Behold, ye are little children and ye cannot bear all things now; ye must grow in grace and in the knowledge of the truth. Measure your words with that assumption in mind. Seriously, no one is going to be pleased. So no one is left out. I am actually traveling with my mother and other members of the family this weekend and showed her this in church to get a laugh. Please use the comments to make your own contributions. Over 70 countries observe Mothers Day, but some of them still retain these spiritual roots whereas in the US its mostly a commercial holiday. Why is that or is that just in my ward? It was perhaps the best talk I gave as a bishop. don't get me wrong, I'm not bragging. Maybe, eventually, I will heal and that will change. It will easily demonstrate the weaknesses in the position: The logic is faulty. A cookie in a baggie? And, even worse, we are also cutting them off from the grace and redemption that Jesus offers. Worst Moms Day talk ever: when we (and most of our friends) were newlyweds, one of our friends (a guy) was asked to give the big glory of motherhood talk. Why..thank you! On Sunday Morning my sister and I drove almost 2 hours each way to go visit my maternal grandmothers grave. Crowd-sourcing request each year when I plan the Mother's Day sacrament meeting I feel an extra bit of pressure to make it special for our wives and mothers. Does this mean that finally..a talk could be about our Heavenly Mothers? (did I mention he and his wife were not parents yet?). That feels a little thin still, so Im glad this post exists. I just read that talk again; and I see nothing wrong with it. I was dreading it, but I was rescued by my sister coming to town for the next 3 days yayyyy. He offers advice on how young women can look to faithful mother figures as a pattern to follow. Some of the stories were simple acts of kindness and some were extraordinary examples of love and sacrifice. It is not that women want to be from Venus, but they want to be from Venus five universes beyond our own. I'd had a challenging morning, but somehow, my 3-year-old-daughter was decked out and ready for church on time. There are a number of other conference talks on the subject (righteous traditions, family traditions, etc.). And the Uchtdorf talk on grace from last conference and his talk on the flowers might be good ones. She talked about how her convert mother negotiated church attendance with her inactive husband, how she brought the gospel into the home to the extent she could while maintaining close family ties and coping with her own faith struggles, and how her example and choices blessed her home. More importantly, what impact does this conscious attempt to devalue motherhood within our community have on the future of the family? from Pres. Yeah. The talks are mostly bearable (though no picnic), but the worst is when the youth would spread out in search of women who were not holding whatever flower or chocolate. Are you looking for the best LDS talks on motherhood? People seemed to feel good about it but Mark is right about it being a fraught day. Well we could have it like the Sacrament Meetings for Father's Day and have it be your usual every Sunday meeting and not even talk about women or mothers. We changed the lines to "Mother Do You Love Me". Submitting to the will of the Father, He suffered more than we can comprehend: Blood [came] from every pore, so great [was] his anguish for the wickedness and the abominations of his people (Mosiah 3:7). Since I believe he (the Father) and my Heavenly Mother are probably equals, Id say we know a lot about her as well! I would say that my grandmother was like a second mother to us, but really she was like a first mother. On this site you will find a variety of arrangements for ward choirs, solo piano, vocal duets and more. EOR, I would venture to say, even with being fairly new to BCC that few here mean to give offense. Let us also posit that, even if the average woman is more nurturing or righteous than the . Some few are probably actively trying to avoid the gifts, trying hard to not remember the lack thats been rubbed in her face all day long. Put me in the column of those who think Sacrament Meeting should be about Christ. The division of labor between the holidays helped to alleviate some of the awkwardness of the women = mothers mindset that we face in the US. I figure maybe in the next life I will be someones Heavenly Mother. Thats the last thing a mother needs, responsibility for yet another living thing. I'd suggest that women at various stages in their lives speaking about what the joy in womanhood, being a divine daughter of God means to them in different stages of life, would at least eliminate all that talk and honor of mothers who have lots of children and do everything right that cause so much pain to women everywhere. Ere the sun goes down, Some women think that you dont talk enough about mothers while other people think you talk too much about them. Ere the sun goes down. What do you think when you see a used car lot with a sign like this: Honest Abes Used Cars! Oh, we also get candy bars with the flowers, music in sacrament and the 3rd hour social time. It seems like awareness and knowing your audience as mentioned before, is half the battle. Ere the sun goes down. As a mother of six kids, Ive had some serious depression about motherhood in general over the years but not usually on Mothers Day. Women have mothers too! "We express our love to those in this congregation and our prayers for the victims and their families. Latter-day Saint Missionary Hospitalized After Stabbing in Colombia, A Slam Dunk of a Service Project: The NBA and Church of Jesus Christ Feed the Hungry, All Missionaries Accounted for in New Zealand After Devastating Cyclone, New Zealand Latter-day Saints Urged to Prepare for Cyclone, Latter-day Saint Artists Paints Uvalde Shooting Victims, Delivers Portraits to Families, Tender Advice from President Monson Trends on Instagram Reels, Church of Jesus Christ Releases Statement of Support After Earthquakes in Turkey, Syria, Try Faith: A 30-Day Challenge Shows How Four Young Vloggers Built Faith in Jesus. One of my talks I focused on Moses and the 5 women at the beginning of his life and the different roles they played: Shiphrah & Puah, the midwives who saved his and countless other Hebrew boys lives, Jochebed his birthmother and what it must have taken to put him in the basket and shut the lid (shes a stronger woman than I am! The hard part for me is when I hear talks about angel mothers where I actually know whom they are talking about. Aiming for Heaven is again looking to the sinless for examples, not to an episode of Leave it to Beaver. I give, is it supposed to be about mothers or not? Is it apeople incapable of focusing on the joy of others? Elder Ballard lists three ways mothers can do that; first, is realizing joy comes in moments, second is to not overschedule children, and third, to find time to cultivate talents and interests. Latter-day Saint pianist Monica Scott has arranged a touching Mother's Day medley in honor of Stephanie Pope, a mother of five who recently passed away . Its never the men. So this year we are setting up tables and chairs in the gym, hauling in meat and cheese and veggies and chocolate, and the Bishop will talk for five minutes and then we will let everybody socialize while I play the tuba for the entire primary. For the third verse, I composed a counterpoint for the choir to sing while the kids sang the melody. I plan to skip church on Mothers Day morning to visit my mother in the home and I will receive my Masters Degree that afternoon! What do you think should be handed out for Mothers Day? I know they happened fairly regularly in my own adolesence and early adulthood, but I cant remember one Ive heard personally in quite a while. Have a variety of ages speak on ideas or what they've done to help their mothers and ways they've stayed close to their mothers. It was an emotional rollercoaster of raised hopes and disappointments. I actually gave two sacrament meeting talks on Mothers Day during our childless/infertile years. Thats the last thing a mother needs, responsibility for yet another living thing. lol! Aleah served a mission in California and loves baking, Lang Leav poetry, Gaynor Minden pointe shoes, and Bollywood movies. The first speaker was my favorite. Just asking. Our old ward in NY would take the funds normally used to purchase flowers, chocolate, etc. All my daily tasks fulfilling, Snickers. This year in my ward the emphasis was shifted slightly from being a mother to our mothers. lesson about prayer. Thanks! As a member of our bishopric, I assigned the topics for this weeks talks, all motherhood focused, and I have forwarded your paragraph with Elder Eyrings quote to each of them. Its a complete set-up for failure. Identifying ideals is somehow so treacherous for the psyches of women that that must never be mentioned? I find women in general to be compassionate and sensitive to other people and a joy to be around. We should not celebrate anything unless it is universally acknowledged around the world. It appears that we have adopted the perverted sense of inclusion to such a degree that we cannot mention our gratitude for our mothers and motherhood without "hurting" or "marginalizing" those who are not mothers. You then leap to classifying it a family celebration rather than a national holiday. After a lot of thought and prayer I called two sisters to speak on some of the blessings and also the challenges of raising children in the gospel. This was very informative and interesting. And I did use some of the suggestions here. Im amazed that we arent using the most recent conference materials .
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