I am not very focused lately, but still am studying. I just haven't found the right thing to post. for now, I will share a friend's blog. Brian and Cheryl Crouch have been a part of my entire adult life, though we have seen little of each other the past 8ish years. (man I am getting old!) Cheryl is an incredible dance teacher and I miss her partnership more than I let myself believe. Brian has taught on the High School and College level, and is also a consultant. Here is his blog....
Try the Goldilock Challenge. It is quite fun!!!!
http://brianpcrouch.wordpress.com/
Saturday, July 24, 2010
Sunday, July 18, 2010
Jeopardy!
Until I can get an "official" blog posting done, here is what I did for my Relief Society Lesson today. It is easy to modify with your own questions. I found the template online.
http://www.mormonshare.com/lds-clipart/mormon-jeopardy-game
I hope the ladies enjoyed it!
2nd try...Apparently I am too uneducated in blogging to attach a file....HELP! :)
3rd try...click on Jeopardy Game Link on the right. Wahoo! Love when things work out!
4th try...still doesn't work right! UGH!!! I will work on it, but if you like it and want a copy, email me and I will send it to you.
http://www.mormonshare.com/lds-clipart/mormon-jeopardy-game
I hope the ladies enjoyed it!
2nd try...Apparently I am too uneducated in blogging to attach a file....HELP! :)
3rd try...click on Jeopardy Game Link on the right. Wahoo! Love when things work out!
4th try...still doesn't work right! UGH!!! I will work on it, but if you like it and want a copy, email me and I will send it to you.
Sunday, July 11, 2010
If ye love me, keep my commandments.
I am still drawn to the message found in John 14.
Jesus Christ expresses so much love and patience in these scriptures!
When I read this chapter to get the history before John 16, the verses about the Holy Ghost jumped off the page.
Yesterday, my hubby and I went to the temple.
We arrived there with time to meditate and read before the session started. The Bible opened right to John 14.
This time, as I read, the scriptures of Christ’s love and desire to teach his disciples touched me. Even though he originally was speaking to the twelve, his words transcend all time and reach us also. We are his disciples if we love him and keep his commandments.
1 LET not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.
2 In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.
And just like our children who think they are paying attention, but not really learning the lessons there to be taught the disciples questioned….
5 Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way?
Also….
8 Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us.
Christ patiently answered Thomas…
6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
7 If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.
To Philip…
9 Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?
10 Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me?
12 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.
13 And whatsoever ye shall aask in my bname, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
In other words, they were missing the point of his life and teachings. Christ came to earth to exemplify his Father’s will, to teach us what to do to return to the Father’s presence, and that if we believe in him, the works we do shall also be great when we ask the Father in Christ’s name.
14 If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it.
15 If ye love me, keep my commandments.
16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;
19 Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.
20 At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.
21 He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.
31 But that the world may know that I love the Father; and as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do.
The scriptures are filled with these amazing promises. Christ offers us the ability to ask for anything in his name! If we keep his commandments, the things we ask will be in alignment with the Father’s will. As part of his promise, The Holy Ghost will guide us and teach us how we can have peace and joy in this life and return to our Father in the life to come. The question is, will we take up our end of the covenant and live in a way that allows Christ and our Heavenly Father to fulfill their end?
Jesus Christ expresses so much love and patience in these scriptures!
When I read this chapter to get the history before John 16, the verses about the Holy Ghost jumped off the page.
Yesterday, my hubby and I went to the temple.
We arrived there with time to meditate and read before the session started. The Bible opened right to John 14.
This time, as I read, the scriptures of Christ’s love and desire to teach his disciples touched me. Even though he originally was speaking to the twelve, his words transcend all time and reach us also. We are his disciples if we love him and keep his commandments.
1 LET not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.
2 In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.
And just like our children who think they are paying attention, but not really learning the lessons there to be taught the disciples questioned….
5 Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way?
Also….
8 Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us.
Christ patiently answered Thomas…
6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
7 If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.
To Philip…
9 Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?
10 Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me?
12 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.
13 And whatsoever ye shall aask in my bname, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
In other words, they were missing the point of his life and teachings. Christ came to earth to exemplify his Father’s will, to teach us what to do to return to the Father’s presence, and that if we believe in him, the works we do shall also be great when we ask the Father in Christ’s name.
14 If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it.
15 If ye love me, keep my commandments.
16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;
19 Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.
20 At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.
21 He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.
31 But that the world may know that I love the Father; and as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do.
The scriptures are filled with these amazing promises. Christ offers us the ability to ask for anything in his name! If we keep his commandments, the things we ask will be in alignment with the Father’s will. As part of his promise, The Holy Ghost will guide us and teach us how we can have peace and joy in this life and return to our Father in the life to come. The question is, will we take up our end of the covenant and live in a way that allows Christ and our Heavenly Father to fulfill their end?
Sunday, July 4, 2010
These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace...
In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
This has been an interesting couple of weeks. I can't say I have had tribulations, but I have been feeling a little down. Summer brings a change of schedule, new demands, and expectations that are sometimes difficult to fullfil. I guess I have been feeling as if I don't measure up. We have all been taught the answers to every need is in the scripture, so I looked up depression in the Topical Guide. It referred me to despair or sorrow. I can't say that I am in despair, so I followed the TG to Sorrow. Sorrow seemed more fitting. In trying to stay true to my original idea of studying the life of Jesus and passing the stories on to my children I found John 16:20.
Christ is talking to his disciples. In John 14, 15, and 16 he is preparing them for the time that he will leave them. He tells them they will not be alone, they will have the Comforter, the Holy Ghost.
How can this knowledge help me? My children? How can my sorrow be lifted?
Through the still small voice, we can learn of Christ and our Father in Heaven.
Their purpose is the same.
They want us to return to them.
That we might have peace.
In John 16, Jesus continues to teach us how we will still have Sorrrow, but that is helps us understand Joy.
Having faith in Christ, knowing that his will is the will of his Father's, that he atoned for our sins, that he died and was resurrected in order for us to be able to follow can help us through our trials, sorrows, and times of despair.
Always remember....
This has been an interesting couple of weeks. I can't say I have had tribulations, but I have been feeling a little down. Summer brings a change of schedule, new demands, and expectations that are sometimes difficult to fullfil. I guess I have been feeling as if I don't measure up. We have all been taught the answers to every need is in the scripture, so I looked up depression in the Topical Guide. It referred me to despair or sorrow. I can't say that I am in despair, so I followed the TG to Sorrow. Sorrow seemed more fitting. In trying to stay true to my original idea of studying the life of Jesus and passing the stories on to my children I found John 16:20.
20 Verily, verily, I say unto you, That ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice: and ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy.
Christ is talking to his disciples. In John 14, 15, and 16 he is preparing them for the time that he will leave them. He tells them they will not be alone, they will have the Comforter, the Holy Ghost.
John 14
1 Let not your heart be troubled
16 ...and he shall give unto you another Comforter,
that he may abide with you forever.
17 ...for he dwelleth with you and shall be in you.
18 I will not leave you comfortless:
I will come to you
26 But the Comforter...shall teach you all things,
and bring all thing to your remembrance,
whatsoever I have said unto you.
John 15
11 ...my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full
16 But when the Comforter is come...
even the Spirit of truth..he shall testify of me.
How can this knowledge help me? My children? How can my sorrow be lifted?
Through the still small voice, we can learn of Christ and our Father in Heaven.
Their purpose is the same.
They want us to return to them.
That we might have peace.
In John 16, Jesus continues to teach us how we will still have Sorrrow, but that is helps us understand Joy.
21 A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come:
but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish,
for joy that a man is born into the world.
22 And ye now therefore have sorrow:
but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice,
and your joy no man taketh from you.
23 And in that day ye shall ask me nothing.
Verily, verily, I say unto you,
Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you.
24 Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name:
ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.
Having faith in Christ, knowing that his will is the will of his Father's, that he atoned for our sins, that he died and was resurrected in order for us to be able to follow can help us through our trials, sorrows, and times of despair.
Always remember....
Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you:
not as the world giveth, give I unto you.
Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
John 14:27
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