Wednesday, January 11, 2006

   Announcement and Spiritual Thoughts
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!

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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.

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Announcement: Equus is preparing her masquerade party, and you are all invited to meet her new clone! (By then the household will have settled into its new routine.) Until then!

-Here are your pocket hugs.-

*Have a great day! ^_^ Love!*

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D&C 121: 45
Let thy bowels also be full of charity towards all men, and to the household of faith, and let virtue garnish thy thoughts unceasingly; then shall thy confidence wax strong in the presence of God; and the doctrine of the priesthood shall distil upon thy soul as the dews from heaven.

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Fact of the day: Horses and cows are (generally speaking) herd animals and thus very social. If they do not have members of their own species to befriend (or even if they do) they will make friends with others. We have a cow who tolerates living with the other cows, but is our friend having been raised by us away from the cows. She didn't even know what cows were when she first saw them. ^_^

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First Presidency Message, Joseph Smith Jr.—Prophet of God, Mighty Servant
By President Gordon B. Hinckley
Ensign, December 2005

We do not worship the Prophet [Joseph Smith]. We worship God our Eternal Father and the risen Lord Jesus Christ. But we acknowledge the Prophet; we proclaim him; we respect him; we reverence him as an instrument in the hands of the Almighty in restoring to the earth the ancient truths of the divine gospel, together with the priesthood through which the authority of God is exercised in the affairs of His Church and for the blessing of His people.


LOVE! And God the Eternal Father, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit be with you. (We are eternal spirits, and will be eternal, too.)
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