What I Learned in Church Today (16th June 2013)
What I learned in Church today:
- Parents are like the defenders in a game of football, and their children are like the goalkeeper. Parents do their very best to protect their children from the things coming their way, but sometimes things get past them. Good parents have prepared their children to cope with the temptations and trials that are thrown at them.
- It doesn't matter that children don't come with a manual, because fathers wouldn't read it anyway.
- It doesn't take extravagant gestures to win a child's heart.
- If there was a website on which we could ask God questions and get answers everyone would be on it all the time. Prayer is that website.
- The first thing an enemy does in a war is to try to break down communications. When we are going through tough times and don't feel like praying, that's when we need to pray most. (2 Nephi 32:8-9)
- Prayer is the primary way we get close to God.
- Feeling that we are accepted by someone we love is a basic human needs. (Third on Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs.) However, seeking acceptance from the wrong sources or in the wrong way can be very destructive.
- "A broken heart" (see Doctrine and Covenants 97:8 / Psalm 51:17) can mean broken in the sense that we break a horse. A broken heart is not only repentant and sorrowful but submissive, respectful, teachable and obedient.
- "Knowing that God accepts you is your freedom for life from the constant worry of acceptance by others." (Yvonne I. Wilson)
Thanks to Cameron Herman, Ethan Page, Jacob William Page, Elder Davis and Elder Dowdle, and Kim Allen.
- Parents are like the defenders in a game of football, and their children are like the goalkeeper. Parents do their very best to protect their children from the things coming their way, but sometimes things get past them. Good parents have prepared their children to cope with the temptations and trials that are thrown at them.
- It doesn't matter that children don't come with a manual, because fathers wouldn't read it anyway.
- It doesn't take extravagant gestures to win a child's heart.
- If there was a website on which we could ask God questions and get answers everyone would be on it all the time. Prayer is that website.
- The first thing an enemy does in a war is to try to break down communications. When we are going through tough times and don't feel like praying, that's when we need to pray most. (2 Nephi 32:8-9)
- Prayer is the primary way we get close to God.
- Feeling that we are accepted by someone we love is a basic human needs. (Third on Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs.) However, seeking acceptance from the wrong sources or in the wrong way can be very destructive.
- "A broken heart" (see Doctrine and Covenants 97:8 / Psalm 51:17) can mean broken in the sense that we break a horse. A broken heart is not only repentant and sorrowful but submissive, respectful, teachable and obedient.
- "Knowing that God accepts you is your freedom for life from the constant worry of acceptance by others." (Yvonne I. Wilson)
Thanks to Cameron Herman, Ethan Page, Jacob William Page, Elder Davis and Elder Dowdle, and Kim Allen.
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