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 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 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!
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 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.
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!
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.
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!
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.
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.”
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!
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!!!!
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!
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!!! ❤
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!
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!
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 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.
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!
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!
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!
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!
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!
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.
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 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!
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!
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!
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
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!
Wow
No words
Amen
I am glad it was helpful for you.
Please share this with others!
*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!