Returning Momanhood to Godhood

The following thoughts are dedicated and inspired by my angel mother who demonstrates perfection in motherhood on a daily basis. Love you Mom!
When Eve was brought to Adam he gave her the most sanctified and glorious of all designations; he called her Eve. In Hebrew “chavah” or the mother of all living. He did not distinguish her as wife but simply mother, mother of all creatures. In this one complementary title consists the glory and most precious adornment of women.
Paralleling the historic heritage of heroic prophets is a stream of remarkable women of God. Greatness is not measured by publicity in popular magazines or scriptures for that matter. Therefore, the story of the women of God is an untold drama in the gospel production.
Kingdom workforce consists of men and women equal without envy of each other, for fear that by political purging of familial purpose a wilderness will become generated.
When the final chapter is written in the history of the world, we will see nations saved by cradles and kitchens not haggling congresses quibbling! the everlasting family will still be standing, because it is a celestial society, created outside telestial time.
Two women came first to the empty tomb of the risen Christ. Mary was the first mortal to see the resurrected Savior.
In Christ’s contemporary kingdom, it is no accident that the Relief Society, assigned compassionate service. So often the service of women seems instinctive. The daughters of Zion are so scarce and priceless that they suffer adversarial antagonism.
We express undying gratitude the daughters of Israel. When we kneel to pray, we kneel hand in hand When we kneel at the altar of the holy temple, the same. And we will approach and faithfully enter the final gate where the Master keeps the key covenanted in togetherness.
Women are the gems of the world, in the same sense as the stars are the gems of heaven, lucid, light-giving, congruent with celestial lights that guide the destines of mankind.
“Woman” the very word ignites life’s dearest hopes and memories, love, adoration, and earth’s cursed Eden restored in the mist of Babylon in the heavenly home.
God has placed the genius of woman in her heart, the outward results of this genius is God’s love and tenderness towards humankind.
We learn volumes about the inherent astuteness devotion of women as we read the scene at Calvary, “And many women were there beholding afar off.” (Matt. 27:55.)
It was the women who were last at the cross and earliest at the grave. When we return to our real home, it will be with the “mutual approbation” angels reigning in the “royal courts on high.” There we will enjoy exquisiteness that “eye hath not seen”; we will hear sounds of matchless melodies that “ear hath not heard.” Could such a royal return be possible without the eager preparations of a Heavenly Mother?

Eternal Amazment

Amazed feelings in my soul assemble
Amazed at Golgotha to cause me to tremble
Amazed at His life and Love
Amazed at His Grace preceding from above
Amazed at His condescension from a throne divine
Amazed as He rose from dark death to eternally shine
Amazed at rough hands pierced to bleed
Amazed at selfless death enabling life to see His seed
Amazed as I worship on bent knees through mortal years
Amazed at feet’s wounds drenched in my tears
Amazed at wonderful care from Father to Son
Amazed at His devotion eternal life for me He has won

Divine Indebtedness

Scriptural mentors who possess great power demonstrate that we are in the moment of our greatest strength when we are in total acknowledgement of our weakness. They are eager to tell the Lord how weak and worthless they are therefore, they live in constant divine indebtedness, and are enabled with divine power. One classic illustration is the Brother of Jared “we know that thou art holy and . . . we are unworthy before thee; because of the fall our natures have become evil continually.” (Ether 3:2 see also 2 Nephi 4). When we appraisingly stand in relation to Christ “we do not stand at all, we kneel!” (Neal A. Maxwell, Ensign Nov. 1981 p. 8) Therefore true humility is not an abject self-despising attitude; it is the right estimate of ourselves as God sees us. Without divine humility we keep our defects; but they become encrusted with pride, which disguises them from personal examination.
King Benjamin teaches us: “If ye should serve him who has created you from the beginning, and is preserving you from day to day, by lending you breath. . . and even supporting you from one moment to another--I say, if ye should serve him with all your whole souls yet ye would be unprofitable servants. (Mosiah 2:21)
This is not humiliating but it is humbling! The very moment I am righteous, the Lord blesses me and instant indebtedness besets again. Accordingly constant gratitude to the Lord must permeate personal prayers. King Benjamin continues that God “doth require that ye should do as he hath commanded you; for which if ye do, he doth immediately bless you.” (Mosiah 2:24) King Benjamin implies retrospective realization of blessings not automatic appreciation. It is unrealistic and ungrateful to accept heavenly blessings without accountability. Through thankful prayer our blindness will be healed and we will see the blessings of the Lord instantaneously.

Man Is Not Alone

“It is not good for man to be alone.” As the primal parent of our race, Adam began life alone. Christ was also alone (Isaiah 53:2-3) and therefore following the example of our fathers, we are alone as well. Everyone is alone in their own way, Adam was alone in the expectation of another person, Christ alone because only He loves the other person perfectly, because He is the way by which we return to our Creator. We are alone because we push others from us. Adam alone in hope, Christ alone in the fullness of Godhood, and we are alone in evil and hopelessness. Adam’s isolation is the single creation segment decreed “not good” (Moses 3:18).Therefore God creates an helpmeet for Adam. He brings His only Begotten home to His presence to reign with His Father as King of kings and Lord of lords. And for us He has given His Only Begotten so that in our aloneness we can be at one again with the Gods. The Lord be thanked for the perfect Atonement wrought by the Perfect Son and Uniter of us all.