I
have been impressed upon quite often as of late to write about our
Heavenly Parents. We often talk of Heavenly Father, our brother Jesus
Christ who is the First Born, but what about our Mother. We know that
through the atonement and modern revelation, while there is no reference
in the standard works (canon) of the LDS church nor in other non LDS
denominations, there is a Heavenly Mother. However even before I joined
the LDS church i was always impressed upon, even as a kid, there was a
Heavenly Mother who was a nurturing, empowered, loving mother who
despite the destruction we cause in our temporal lives, works to keep
balance in the family, unites one another when disasters hit and helps
us find love, compassion, joy, endurance, gladness in the seasons of
love and helps nurture us in the changes in our lives.
The
world has known her since infancy as Mother Nature, but I know her as
my nurturing Heavenly Mother. many people over the centuries and
millenniums have attributed Mother Nature as a mythical idea or person
such as the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus, Tooth Fairy, Jack Frost, tree
sprites, elves, fairies and dragons; and yet Mother Nature or Heavenly
Mother is a very real and much alive person. While be blame Mother
nature quite often for natural disasters, storms, losses to disasters,
global warming, heat, cold and much more, we also thank her for sunsets
and sunrises, winter blanketed landscapes, tropical paradises, the
budding rose, the gift of life at the changing of seasons and creation
in partnership with Heavenly Father. I am often reminded of Heavenly
Mother in the song "For the Beauty of the Earth."
Heavenly
Mother is the one that brings the bonds of family closer, and helps
families find empowerment, love, compassion, and endurance. She is the
living example of a Latter-day Saint woman who should be serving with
their husbands as helpmeets, or any man for that matter in their lives
along side of one another.
Our
Celestial Parents are the pattern we are to follow in our lives and
without an example of a family structure how can we be expected as
Latter-day women to raise a family being the bond and glue as we strive
to return home not only to the Church of the First Born in humble
worship and exaltation in ourselves but return to be kings and queens,
priests and priestesses, gods and goddesses as children and heirs to the
Kingdom from our Heavenly Father and Mother who ARE the Celestial King
and Queen, the High Priest and Priestess, and THE God and THE Goddess.
Just as Christ our brother who is the Crowned Prince and as is His
birthright descending from the royal lineage both celestial and temporal
starting with Adam. Adam, as we know to be Michael and co-creator of
this world and other worlds alongside of Christ, who was the first king
of this temporal world while without title or the need of nobility but
Adam also served as the first Priest and Prophet in this temporal world
given the authority by Peter, James, and John.
When
Christ consulted with his Father in the Great Temple called Heaven or
the Holy of Holies in Celestial Glory during the pre-existence and after
the Great Council when earth was formed about it is not good for man to
be alone? I believe Heavenly Mother was present among Her Husband and
Son and as Heavenly Father asked Christ that question I can imagine and
picture Heavenly Father giving His Wife a special wink but more likely
walked over to Her in embrace with respect, love, humility, admiration
and his agape love as he stared into her eyes in front of Their Son
letting it be a witness that women (female spirit) are the foundation to
the home and are essential to life, creation, and the ability to love.
It is by this example I also believe Christ was married himself and
hand children, where a good 18 years of his life is untold and he would
have had to follow His and our Heavenly Parents example of marriage as
when He began His ministry he had to be a living example, testimony and
witness to His own life and the divinity of life. I like to think Christ
was raised by a queen because he treated ALL women with respect and
like a princess.
Even
in natural or personal disasters I think Heavenly Mother, while keeping
beauty and renewal upon the earth, regardless if Saints or not, allows
people to experience such things as they come together and forget their
differences to help one another in compassion as they rebuild a
community nurturing one another. As Saints we have Mormon Helping Hands
travel worldwide and are on scene to help out in a nurturing and
compassionate way.
Fathers
are suppose to be the chastiser when we need it and also a place of
safety, mothers are suppose to be the nurturing one and place the band
aid upon, and the older sibling such as Christ to be and set the example
for their siblings. While Heavenly Mother has her roles in the work and
the glory of the Kingdom and in our lives, She supports her Husband and
Son as they help build, shapens and strengthen our lives through the
power and gift of the Holy Spirit.
As
Latter-day Women we are the mothers of the church whether we have our
own family or not we are to be the nurtures and compassionate women
under the mantle of service, love and hospitality to all people member
and non member alike and be the foundation of the world and church as
man is nothing without us nor are we anything without them.
The
motto of the Relief Society is, "Charity Never Faileth" and was set up
to reach out to the needs of those who were the sick and the afflicted
or in need of love, provide for the needs, hospitality, or service as
helpmeets to take the some of burden from the Priesthood and equally
bear the yoke of serving one another
While
we do not pray to Heavenly Mother personally as Latter-day Saints, when
we address Heavenly Father we address the whole Holy Family in the name
of our brother Jesus Christ because of the Atonement.
It
is my prayer and blessing we live as sisters in Zion by following our
Heavenly Parents example and let our light shine brightly as a witness
to our testimonies and of the truthfulness of the gospel through our
baptism, temple, and celestial covenants (made in the pre-existence as
the roles we play in this temporal state) and be diligent as we serve
along side our priesthood holders and leaders supporting them and
empowering them as we empower ourselves in Heavenly Mother's example
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