Saturday, January 7, 2006

Hello, friends and guests.
Thank you for your comments, friends. Jesus Christ is the reason for the season! (Thanks, Refi-chan.)

Spiritual note:

God and Jesus Christ made this earth for the express purpose of bringing men to salvation, eternal life, and immortality. Eternal life--to be like heavenly Father, like God. For the child grows into an adult, and we are children of God, and He and Jesus Christ, our Messiah, love us.

Merry Christmas.

The Sanctity of the Body, by Susan W. Tanner, Young Women General President

[...]Oh, how I pray that all men and women will seek the beauty praised by the prophet—beauty of body, mind, and spirit!

[...]I suppose that many of us have similarly offended our spirits at times by physical indulgences. Especially substances forbidden in the Word of Wisdom have a harmful effect on our bodies and a numbing influence on our spiritual sensitivities. None of us can ignore this connection of our spirits and bodies.

These sacred bodies, for which we are so grateful, suffer from natural limitations. Some people are born with disabilities, and some suffer the pains of disease throughout their lives. All of us as we age experience our bodies gradually beginning to fail. When this happens, we long for the day when our bodies will be healed and whole. We look forward to the Resurrection that Jesus Christ made possible, when "the soul shall be restored to the body, and the body to the soul; yea, and every limb and joint shall be restored to its body; yea, even a hair of the head shall not be lost; but all things shall be restored to their proper and perfect frame" (Alma 40:23). I know that through Christ we can experience a fulness of joy that is available only when spirit and element are inseparably connected (see D&C 93:33).

Our bodies are our temples. We are not less but more like Heavenly Father because we are embodied. I testify that we are His children, made in His image, with the potential to become like Him. Let us treat this divine gift of the body with great care. Someday, if we are worthy, we shall receive a perfected, glorious body—pure and clean like my new little granddaughter, only inseparably bound to the spirit. And we shall shout for joy (see Job 38:7) to receive this gift again for which we have longed (see D&C 138:50). May we respect the sanctity of the body during mortality so that the Lord may sanctify and exalt it for eternity. In the name of Jesus Christ, amen.

Abraham 3--The planned creation of the Earth by God.

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Fact of the day: Though the days start getting longer after December 23 (or something), the earth starts getting warmer later. Weird, huh?

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Xihuitl just told me she thinks she saw the missing clones (see Refi's, Tiggerola's, last post) this morning. Hm...maybe we'll have to go looking for them. Kyo-clone, and--oops. I almost gave it away.

Well, we'll look for the clones.

*I think they've moved on, but it looked like the Kurama-clone was following the Hiei-clone, towards someone else's property. I don't know whose, though. They headed east.*

Weird....Well, talk to you guys later. I can't stay up late...and I have to work on Christmas pics for friends tomorrow. ^/^ Yes, most of my Christmas cards aren't even done, much less sent. I'll share some of my pics, maybe, after they're done.

Hugs, and love, all!

-Here are your pocket hugs. Have a good day.-

*Love from us, and from God, our Heavenly Father, above. Jesus Christ came for us, to live, die, and live again for us, because He loves us. Remember that!*
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