Absolutely! I joined the Church at the same time that my husband asked for a divorce at the same time that my parents rejected me for joining at the same time that I moved from New York to Provo. It was a lot, but my spiritual therapy was the scriptures, even though a stake leader or bishop would say or ask if I needed “therapy “… I said no I just need to read the Scriptures which I did diligently and after two years of fierce studying, I came to the conclusion that the atonement is a choice to follow Jesus Christ and be happy or follow Satan and be miserable! I have been following Jesus Christ for 25 years now! I can call him my Master teacher, Friend, Physician, Comforter, Judge, etc… If you want to be healed, you can!
It's so interesting that the first thing that happens upon mortal birth is that we must be physically separated from our mother. The umbilical cord is cut, as we are also separated from our Heavenly Parents. If we weren't separated from our mother when the cord is cut, not only could we not progress, but we would die. Such interesting symbolism
Thank you for your sharing Kerry, your post is so very timely with General Conference and our Come Follow Me reading with Jesus with the Saints in America. For me so many of the conference talks were on the doctrine of Christ, with special emphasis on how to draw on the power of Jesus Christ’s atonement to be strengthened on our journey Home, our growing up in God journey. Thank you for the gift of this post, bless you!!!!
I am glad it was helpful. I was so glad that when President Nelson asked us to study the Atonement that I already had this episode coming out. Bless you!
@@TheScripturesAreRealThe timing was a tender mercy on your work. I am sharing with all I can think of to add to President Nelson’s invitation to study the atonement of Jesus Christ.
When you taught about having a full and complete communion and relationship with our Father- this was demonstrated perfectly by Jesus The Christ in pre-mortality, his earthly life, and after.
I am glad to have been ready to help before we even received this counsel. I hope it was helpful for you in that way. And please share with others so that they can have help too!
I listened to this expecting it to be in response to President Nelson’s invitation, kind of like the Doctrine and Covenants Section 109 podcast and feel doubly blessed to have a little part of Education Week as well.
Yes, the opposite of total separation is complete oneness or “atonement” with God, through Jesus Christ! Thank you for so beautifully articulating what I have felt so deeply in my heart... but just didn’t have the words to express 💙
It is SO powerful to look at what our Savior has done to bring us back into the presence of our Heavenly Father THROUGH THE LENS of the painful experience of separation from the people we love, through the joy of reunification, and through the lens of the experiences of people who have been a part of Relative Race. Likewise, the stories you share and the stories shared by your guests and by people in TH-cam comments, etc.,… these truly do make the scriptures FEEL so real. Again and again, thank you to everyone who makes TSAR possible.
I wholeheartedly agree with your opening remarks about our separation from our Heavenly Father and how it affects our lives here on Earth. The single most important concept I learned when investigating the Gospel was the idea that I was a daughter of God. That alone rang true above everything else. It changed my life for the best and I'm grateful that I was able to teach my children the truth. Excellent lesson. Thank you.
When I read the Easter Connection for the first time it resonated deeply because of the feeling of what I refer to as “home sickness” is how I best described missing my Heavenly Parents and all the things we all must have experienced before we came to earth. We all miss Them on some level. Being cut off. Our Savior, Jesus Christ has made it possible for each one of us to have a covenant relationship with Them. The Holy Ghost role is another gift of Their eternal love for us. This fills our souls ever making it possible to feel of their perfect love for us and experience this life filled with hope and joy! Full separation. Full reunion. Total joy. ❤ ….”my Beloved Son, which was my Beloved and Chosen from the beginning, said unto me-Father, thy will be done, and the glory be thine forever.”
With much gratitude from the bottom of my heart I thank you for this amazing and deep insights into the Atoning Sacrifice of our Savior and what Heavenly Father had to pay with the suffering of His Only Begotten Son. So much love from Father and Son to us. Surely we can overcome this world and give our will to show our appreciation and love to Christ and the Father. Thanks again
I am so glad it was helpful for you. The more I explore this the more touched I am. Please share this with other so that they can jump start their atonement studies too! Thanks!
Beautiful and timely insights!!!! Thank you so much for taking the time to teach and inspire us. This was the perfect way for me to start following the Prophet's urging us to study the Atonement each week.....for the rest of our lives. I'm with you, I know I don't have the capaxity yet to fully understand and express the full depth and breadth of the Lord's Atoning sacrifice.
I am so glad that this was helpful, both in studying Christ's sacrifice and in following Prophetic counsel. Bless you! And please share with others so that they can have help too!
I am grateful for the healing you have had, and pray fervently that you will experience even more. I hope that studying the atoning sacrifice can be part of that process. Thank you for sharing, and bless you!!!!
And this He did because He loves us. And this He did because He loves the Father. Look to Him, and His ever infinite Atoning sacrifice and learn of Him. Know him. There is joy in Him. Thank you for your message.
Thank you brother for sharing what you have studied so deeply. Pure testimony is always expressed in fullness with the help of the Holy Ghost and I felt yours. Bisous from France
There is so much power that comes from studying the atoning sacrifice! I guess that is why President Nelson asked us to do it. Please share this with others to help them do it too!
Thank you so much, Brother Muhlstein. I was one of those at education week who missed this presentation. I’ve been anxiously awaiting to hear this. Thank you so much for taking your time to share.
"Fight, Flight or FREEZE!!!" THANK YOU! I was separated from my Mother shortly after I was born and had a memory come to me as a newborn, that I had killed my mother. It came unconsciously as a married mother as "Separation Anxiety. "I'll leave my spouse before he can re-injure me by abandoning me " A talk show host helped with this. Nearing the end of my life mission, I FREEZE my motherly role to try to protect offspring. Irrational! NDE people often say that a deceased ancestors greet them, in the role of THE OFFICE of the Third members of the GODHEAD
Could the Savior’s invitation to take upon us his yoke and enter into covenants brings much more to the relationship? The dictionary says a Yoke fellow means a close companion. We are bound and committed to heaven’s laws. The exact same laws Jesus Christ Himself is bound and committed to. I like to believe that my efforts to bring souls to Jesus makes me a “Yoke fellow “ or close companion.
Absolutely. The reason a yoke fellow is a close companion is because you work together, and that always brings a closeness. It is exactly what Christ asks of us. Work with me! I will do all the work, but I want you to work with me. That creates true beautiful bonds.
I love that, and it reminds me of Wendy Watson (now Nelson)’s BYU speech about change: she spoke about the Savior as the “ultimate change agent”, as we seek Him.
Kerry, for the exact reason you love Relative Race, I really do NOT! As an adoptive mother, I am profoundly affected when you say they are “made whole” when they find their biological relatives! Please tell me why the sealing power of the EVERLASTING Covenant would NOT make them WHOLE through the power of Jesus Christ. This is a covenant that is sealed and ratified by the Holy Ghost! Why would it not make our children one with us? Why would there be a hole left in them? This does not make sense to me! Please help me and adoptive parents understand!
This is a fantastic question. I should address this explicitly for more people. I wish I had been doing that all along, so thanks for helping me see I need to do that. You have also helped me see that I was using the word “whole” more loosely than I should. For many of these adopted people it is the question of why they were put up for adoption. Did their birth parents reject them, not want them, not love them? That is a question that is hard even for people who have been raised in fantastic homes and have fantastic relationships with the parents who raised them. But I think there is more than that. I believe, like you, that the sealing power is real and makes us whole in so many ways and makes the parent/child bond very real, very powerful, and very authentic. But that doesn't mean that there is not someone else they need to bond with. I assume that you understand that their relationship with you does not mean that they don’t also need a relationship with their other parents, meaning their Heavenly Parents. No matter how whole their relationship with you makes them, that is another hole that your relationship can't make whole. You fill one hole, someone else fills another, and you can't be a substitute for that. You also can't fill the hole that can only be filled by your children having a spouse. No matter how wonderful your relationship is, they aren't whole without a spouse. Their spouse can't substitute for you, and you can't substitute for them, and neither of you can substitute for God or for their having children. I think the sealing power makes you really and truly their parents, and that is so healing and real and powerful for them. But it doesn't mean that there aren't other parents. The need to make that bond with birth parents does not take away from the bond with you, any more than the need for a spousal or divine bond does. At least that is the way I see it. I know I can only see it partially because I am not in that circumstance, so maybe there is something I am not understanding here, and I apologize for that. But from my limited ability perspective, this makes some sense to me, and I hope it is helpful for you. I wish I had exhibited the foresight to see that I needed to address this more explicitly, and I am grateful that you have helped me see that. Thank you!
Thank you Kerry for your thoughtful reply. Perhaps I can give you not only my perspective as a mother of adoptive children, but also as a Marriage and Family Therapist. I agree that we hold wounds. Wounds we have taken on here in mortality. The psychological and spiritual wounds affect us most deeply. I also believe and teach that our deepest fear stems from the separation anxiety that our Spirit feels having been separated from our Heavenly Parents. All the core basic psychological needs of a human can be linked to having once experienced this perfect relationship with our Heavenly Parents where we were perfectly loved, seen and known. In this mortal experience, we naturally long for what we once experienced. The gift of an Eternal family allows us to draw upon the Savior’s Atonement to close the separation gap we feel. That oneness with Christ creates a bond that draws us to Him and thus to our Heavenly Parents as the fragmented parts that hold wounds are healed through Him, the Great Physician. The more we walk in our covenant relationships with Him and our spouses, children, parents and brothers and sisters, the more our hearts are made one and becomes filled with that same divine love (charity) that we long for and seek until the perfect day. Perhaps those who participate in the Relative Race hold wounds that weren’t healed through their adoptive relations. Perhaps media has led them to believe they aren’t whole until they find their biologicals. Perhaps the joy you feel as you witness these reunions is a beautiful testament of the Christlike charity you possess. Perhaps it’s a beautiful example of how our hearts will expand with love for one another when we truly see each other as God intends….as brothers and sisters, and those moments where you feel your own wounds are being healed, they truly are because your heart is expanding with that love. You feel what it will be like for each of us when the veil is pierced and the whole of humanity sings the song of redeeming love in perfect unison. I just don’t believe all adoptive children have holes that need to be filled with biological relations. I believe they can expand the love they have in their hearts for them. We actually taught our children that they have Heavenly Parents who created their spirit, Earthly Parents who created their body and Eternal Parents (us) who were their heart and soul parents. All who love them deeply. I think it comes down to our individual relationship with our Savior that allows for His amazing grace to not only make us one with Him, but one in our family bonds. Thank you for all you do. My husband and I love your Isaiah books!
Your relentless mention of heavenly parents in the place of God the Father makes this unlistenable. Notice how you don’t hear that at general conference.
Interesting. You do in fact hear it at General Conference, and in the Proclamation on the Family, and in the Young Women's theme. If you look carefully at how and when it is used, you will see that specific contexts are the time it is used. Those are contexts where the emphasis is on our earthly relationships mirroring heavenly ones, or where the emphasis is on our heavenly family. That is exactly and precisely the context used here. I never use that term lightly. I am very aware that we do, in fact, have a doctrine of a Heavenly Mother, and that the First Presidency has reviewed and published topical essays on that doctrine. I am also very aware that we should be careful in how much we emphasize that doctrine, and I use that term very, very sparingly. I am also very aware of how the term Heavenly Parents is used, and I mimic it very closely, desiring to be fully aligned. The context of this discussion is about children being united with parents, so the context demands the careful use. In fact, I almost feel it would be offensive to omit both parents in this context. While I believe we should show incredible and great respect to the notion of Heavenly Parents, I think part of that respect includes acknowledging that we have both. I am sorry if you disagree with that. I hope you will look into what I mentioned here. As far as I can tell, I am in perfect alignment with Church use of terms. At the very least it is my intention to do so, and I know I am limited in my ability to follow through with my intents perfectly.
I agree with you. It seems logical that the Father and His Son have eternal companions. There may be theory, essays ans songs about it...but not in scriptures. It's like a new dogma in the church. My mother taught me as a young woman..."maybe her name and mention is silent out of solem respect and perfected honor of her name. Look how "in vain" we take His name. Remember in the Book of Mormon...some words were unlawful to utter...or unspeakable. This vain repetition of "Heavenly patents" could be. Look to the FATHER AND HIS SON. We are to pray to Him. Some in the church are already blurring those lines.
Absolutely! I joined the Church at the same time that my husband asked for a divorce at the same time that my parents rejected me for joining at the same time that I moved from New York to Provo. It was a lot, but my spiritual therapy was the scriptures, even though a stake leader or bishop would say or ask if I needed “therapy “… I said no I just need to read the Scriptures which I did diligently and after two years of fierce studying, I came to the conclusion that the atonement is a choice to follow Jesus Christ and be happy or follow Satan and be miserable! I have been following Jesus Christ for 25 years now! I can call him my Master teacher, Friend, Physician, Comforter, Judge, etc… If you want to be healed, you can!
What a beautiful story and powerful sentiment! Thank you for sharing that. Oh how grateful I am for the healing that is available.
Amazing, keep going!!! ❤
I'm deeply impressed and it gives me in a very much positive and uplifting way much to process. Thank you.
💯 agree
Thank you for sharing! I have traveled that same path.
It's so interesting that the first thing that happens upon mortal birth is that we must be physically separated from our mother. The umbilical cord is cut, as we are also separated from our Heavenly Parents. If we weren't separated from our mother when the cord is cut, not only could we not progress, but we would die.
Such interesting symbolism
The parallels are astounding and so instructive!
This is so beautiful. I don't know how you (or anyone) can study and write about Christ's atoning sacrifice and not cry. This was very moving for me.
I can't do it without being so incredibly moved.
Thank you for your sharing Kerry, your post is so very timely with General Conference and our Come Follow Me reading with Jesus with the Saints in America.
For me so many of the conference talks were on the doctrine of Christ, with special emphasis on how to draw on the power of Jesus Christ’s atonement to be strengthened on our journey Home, our growing up in God journey.
Thank you for the gift of this post, bless you!!!!
I am glad it was helpful. I was so glad that when President Nelson asked us to study the Atonement that I already had this episode coming out. Bless you!
@@TheScripturesAreRealThe timing was a tender mercy on your work. I am sharing with all I can think of to add to President Nelson’s invitation to study the atonement of Jesus Christ.
When you taught about having a full and complete communion and relationship with our Father- this was demonstrated perfectly by Jesus The Christ in pre-mortality, his earthly life, and after.
Yes it was! And then He invites us into their relationship! It is so exciting to think about!
Perfect timing in light of President Nelson’s direction to study the atonement of Jesus Christ weekly
I am glad to have been ready to help before we even received this counsel. I hope it was helpful for you in that way.
And please share with others so that they can have help too!
I listened to this expecting it to be in response to President Nelson’s invitation, kind of like the Doctrine and Covenants Section 109 podcast and feel doubly blessed to have a little part of Education Week as well.
Yes, the opposite of total separation is complete oneness or “atonement” with God, through Jesus Christ! Thank you for so beautifully articulating what I have felt so deeply in my heart... but just didn’t have the words to express 💙
Thank you, powerful insights. If we come to Him, we won't ever be alone again. We'll have the Spirit and soon enough His Presence.
Won't that be a wonderful day!?!
Please share with others so that they can have help too!
It is SO powerful to look at what our Savior has done to bring us back into the presence of our Heavenly Father THROUGH THE LENS of the painful experience of separation from the people we love, through the joy of reunification, and through the lens of the experiences of people who have been a part of Relative Race.
Likewise, the stories you share and the stories shared by your guests and by people in TH-cam comments, etc.,… these truly do make the scriptures FEEL so real.
Again and again, thank you to everyone who makes TSAR possible.
I am so glad it is helpful for you! Bless you!
Please share this with others!
I wholeheartedly agree with your opening remarks about our separation from our Heavenly Father and how it affects our lives here on Earth. The single most important concept I learned when investigating the Gospel was the idea that I was a daughter of God. That alone rang true above everything else. It changed my life for the best and I'm grateful that I was able to teach my children the truth. Excellent lesson. Thank you.
I think those thoughts -- that we are God's child and that we are separated from Him -- resonate deeply with all of us.
When I read the Easter Connection for the first time it resonated deeply because of the feeling of what I refer to as “home sickness” is how I best described missing my Heavenly Parents and all the things we all must have experienced before we came to earth. We all miss Them on some level.
Being cut off.
Our Savior, Jesus Christ has made it possible for each one of us to have a covenant relationship with Them. The Holy Ghost role is another gift of Their eternal love for us.
This fills our souls ever making it possible to feel of their perfect love for us and experience this life filled with hope and joy!
Full separation.
Full reunion.
Total joy. ❤
….”my Beloved Son, which was my Beloved and Chosen from the beginning, said unto me-Father, thy will be done, and the glory be thine forever.”
You say this so well and express such an important and powerful concept. Thank you for that! Beautiful!
Thank you so very much for this! It touched me deeply.
I am so glad!!!
With much gratitude from the bottom of my heart I thank you for this amazing and deep insights into the Atoning Sacrifice of our Savior and what Heavenly Father had to pay with the suffering of His Only Begotten Son. So much love from Father and Son to us. Surely we can overcome this world and give our will to show our appreciation and love to Christ and the Father. Thanks again
I am so glad it was helpful for you. The more I explore this the more touched I am.
Please share this with other so that they can jump start their atonement studies too! Thanks!
I started to cry when you commented about my fall from my Heavenly Father - I feel this every day❤
It is such a part of us that we have a deep resonation with that.
Wonderful!
So glad it was helpful for you!
Absolutely beautiful. Thank you so much
I am so glad it was helpful for you.
Please share it with others too!
L&S'ed right away ! Your take as presented is EXACTLY MINE .
Looking forward to having you along for my journey!
Glad to be with you, and I am so glad if any of this is helpful for you. Bless, you, and I hope to be hearing from you along the way!
Fuller relationships, separation, spiritual therapy, and complete union--love these insights!
They were very, very touching for me, so I am glad they were helpful for you. Bless you!
And please share with others so that they can have help too!
Beautiful and timely insights!!!! Thank you so much for taking the time to teach and inspire us. This was the perfect way for me to start following the Prophet's urging us to study the Atonement each week.....for the rest of our lives. I'm with you, I know I don't have the capaxity yet to fully understand and express the full depth and breadth of the Lord's Atoning sacrifice.
I am so glad that this was helpful, both in studying Christ's sacrifice and in following Prophetic counsel. Bless you!
And please share with others so that they can have help too!
I’m grateful for fire alarms! Haha! Thanks Kerry!
I am glad it worked out to be of help to more people that way!
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Thank you dear Brother!
I'm looking forward to this podcast!
It is about relationships!
7:39 ❤
I believe we are coming to understand that more and more.
Bless you!
You have done an awesome job with this. Thank you.
I am so very glad it was helpful for you.
And please share with others so that they can have help too!
I feel Spiritual Therapy is something I need so much more of. I've healed a great deal from abuse as a child yet have so far to go
I am grateful for the healing you have had, and pray fervently that you will experience even more. I hope that studying the atoning sacrifice can be part of that process. Thank you for sharing, and bless you!!!!
Thank you for your beautiful insights
I hope they have been helpful for you!
Thank you so much for finishing your Ed wk presentation. This filled out my hastily taken notes
Glad it was helpful!
Wow! Thank you. I’m sharing right now.
Thank you for sharing these eternal truths!!
I am so glad they were helpful for you. I know they have touched me.
And please share with others so that they can have help too!
And this He did because He loves us. And this He did because He loves the Father. Look to Him, and His ever infinite Atoning sacrifice and learn of Him. Know him. There is joy in Him.
Thank you for your message.
You are so right. Joy that comes from this ascending chain of love.
@TheScripturesAreReal I sent some additional thoughts to the channel email.
Thank you brother for sharing what you have studied so deeply. Pure testimony is always expressed in fullness with the help of the Holy Ghost and I felt yours. Bisous from France
There is so much power that comes from studying the atoning sacrifice! I guess that is why President Nelson asked us to do it.
Please share this with others to help them do it too!
Thank you so much, Brother Muhlstein. I was one of those at education week who missed this presentation. I’ve been anxiously awaiting to hear this. Thank you so much for taking your time to share.
I am glad to have found a way to do it again after our fun fire alarm fiasco!
Wow! This really helps me to understand the fullness of the Holy Ghost from 109🤯
I hadn't made that connection, thanks for making it for me. I am glad it was helpful.
And please share with others so that they can have help too!
"Fight, Flight or FREEZE!!!" THANK YOU! I was separated from my Mother shortly after I was born and had a memory come to me as a newborn, that I had killed my mother. It came unconsciously as a married mother as "Separation Anxiety. "I'll leave my spouse before he can re-injure me by abandoning me " A talk show host helped with this. Nearing the end of my life mission, I FREEZE my motherly role to try to protect offspring. Irrational! NDE people often say that a deceased ancestors greet them, in the role of THE OFFICE of the Third members of the GODHEAD
Wow, what a lot of experience you have to help us think through. Thank you and bless you!
Wow
No words
Amen
I am glad it was helpful for you.
Please share this with others!
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If it was helpful for you I am very happy!
Thank you
I am just so happy if it was helpful.
Please share it with others!
All scripture are one n d name of Lord Jesus Christ
I do love how we can bring all scriptures together in one.
Could the Savior’s invitation to take upon us his yoke and enter into covenants brings much more to the relationship? The dictionary says a Yoke fellow means a close companion. We are bound and committed to heaven’s laws. The exact same laws Jesus Christ Himself is bound and committed to. I like to believe that my efforts to bring souls to Jesus makes me a “Yoke fellow “ or close companion.
Absolutely. The reason a yoke fellow is a close companion is because you work together, and that always brings a closeness. It is exactly what Christ asks of us. Work with me! I will do all the work, but I want you to work with me. That creates true beautiful bonds.
I love that, and it reminds me of Wendy Watson (now Nelson)’s BYU speech about change: she spoke about the Savior as the “ultimate change agent”, as we seek Him.
@@Wendy-Ray How wonderful that through all He went through He can change us!
*Covenant Insights on the Atonement of Jesus Christ
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I am so glad this was helpful for you.
And please share with others so that they can have help too!
Kerry, for the exact reason you love Relative Race, I really do NOT! As an adoptive mother, I am profoundly affected when you say they are “made whole” when they find their biological relatives! Please tell me why the sealing power of the EVERLASTING Covenant would NOT make them WHOLE through the power of Jesus Christ. This is a covenant that is sealed and ratified by the Holy Ghost!
Why would it not make our children one with us? Why would there be a hole left in them?
This does not make sense to me! Please help me and adoptive parents understand!
This is a fantastic question. I should address this explicitly for more people. I wish I had been doing that all along, so thanks for helping me see I need to do that. You have also helped me see that I was using the word “whole” more loosely than I should.
For many of these adopted people it is the question of why they were put up for adoption. Did their birth parents reject them, not want them, not love them? That is a question that is hard even for people who have been raised in fantastic homes and have fantastic relationships with the parents who raised them.
But I think there is more than that. I believe, like you, that the sealing power is real and makes us whole in so many ways and makes the parent/child bond very real, very powerful, and very authentic. But that doesn't mean that there is not someone else they need to bond with. I assume that you understand that their relationship with you does not mean that they don’t also need a relationship with their other parents, meaning their Heavenly Parents. No matter how whole their relationship with you makes them, that is another hole that your relationship can't make whole. You fill one hole, someone else fills another, and you can't be a substitute for that. You also can't fill the hole that can only be filled by your children having a spouse. No matter how wonderful your relationship is, they aren't whole without a spouse. Their spouse can't substitute for you, and you can't substitute for them, and neither of you can substitute for God or for their having children.
I think the sealing power makes you really and truly their parents, and that is so healing and real and powerful for them. But it doesn't mean that there aren't other parents. The need to make that bond with birth parents does not take away from the bond with you, any more than the need for a spousal or divine bond does.
At least that is the way I see it. I know I can only see it partially because I am not in that circumstance, so maybe there is something I am not understanding here, and I apologize for that. But from my limited ability perspective, this makes some sense to me, and I hope it is helpful for you.
I wish I had exhibited the foresight to see that I needed to address this more explicitly, and I am grateful that you have helped me see that. Thank you!
Thank you Kerry for your thoughtful reply. Perhaps I can give you not only my perspective as a mother of adoptive children, but also as a Marriage and Family Therapist. I agree that we hold wounds. Wounds we have taken on here in mortality. The psychological and spiritual wounds affect us most deeply. I also believe and teach that our deepest fear stems from the separation anxiety that our Spirit feels having been separated from our Heavenly Parents. All the core basic psychological needs of a human can be linked to having once experienced this perfect relationship with our Heavenly Parents where we were perfectly loved, seen and known.
In this mortal experience, we naturally long for what we once experienced. The gift of an Eternal family allows us to draw upon the Savior’s Atonement to close the separation gap we feel. That oneness with Christ creates a bond that draws us to Him and thus to our Heavenly Parents as the fragmented parts that hold wounds are healed through Him, the Great Physician. The more we walk in our covenant relationships with Him and our spouses, children, parents and brothers and sisters, the more our hearts are made one and becomes filled with that same divine love (charity) that we long for and seek until the perfect day.
Perhaps those who participate in the Relative Race hold wounds that weren’t healed through their adoptive relations. Perhaps media has led them to believe they aren’t whole until they find their biologicals. Perhaps the joy you feel as you witness these reunions is a beautiful testament of the Christlike charity you possess. Perhaps it’s a beautiful example of how our hearts will expand with love for one another when we truly see each other as God intends….as brothers and sisters, and those moments where you feel your own wounds are being healed, they truly are because your heart is expanding with that love. You feel what it will be like for each of us when the veil is pierced and the whole of humanity sings the song of redeeming love in perfect unison.
I just don’t believe all adoptive children have holes that need to be filled with biological relations. I believe they can expand the love they have in their hearts for them.
We actually taught our children that they have Heavenly Parents who created their spirit, Earthly Parents who created their body and Eternal Parents (us) who were their heart and soul parents. All who love them deeply. I think it comes down to our individual relationship with our Savior that allows for His amazing grace to not only make us one with Him, but one in our family bonds. Thank you for all you do. My husband and I love your Isaiah books!
Your relentless mention of heavenly parents in the place of God the Father makes this unlistenable. Notice how you don’t hear that at general conference.
Interesting. You do in fact hear it at General Conference, and in the Proclamation on the Family, and in the Young Women's theme. If you look carefully at how and when it is used, you will see that specific contexts are the time it is used. Those are contexts where the emphasis is on our earthly relationships mirroring heavenly ones, or where the emphasis is on our heavenly family. That is exactly and precisely the context used here. I never use that term lightly. I am very aware that we do, in fact, have a doctrine of a Heavenly Mother, and that the First Presidency has reviewed and published topical essays on that doctrine. I am also very aware that we should be careful in how much we emphasize that doctrine, and I use that term very, very sparingly. I am also very aware of how the term Heavenly Parents is used, and I mimic it very closely, desiring to be fully aligned. The context of this discussion is about children being united with parents, so the context demands the careful use. In fact, I almost feel it would be offensive to omit both parents in this context. While I believe we should show incredible and great respect to the notion of Heavenly Parents, I think part of that respect includes acknowledging that we have both.
I am sorry if you disagree with that. I hope you will look into what I mentioned here. As far as I can tell, I am in perfect alignment with Church use of terms. At the very least it is my intention to do so, and I know I am limited in my ability to follow through with my intents perfectly.
I agree with you. It seems logical that the Father and His Son have eternal companions. There may be theory, essays ans songs about it...but not in scriptures. It's like a new dogma in the church. My mother taught me as a young woman..."maybe her name and mention is silent out of solem respect and perfected honor of her name. Look how "in vain" we take His name. Remember in the Book of Mormon...some words were unlawful to utter...or unspeakable. This vain repetition of "Heavenly patents" could be. Look to the FATHER AND HIS SON. We are to pray to Him. Some in the church are already blurring those lines.