You Get What You Faith For
The Power of Negative Belief “Dad, I don’t have any place to stay. They kicked me out… I’ve lost my job again. I’ve been in IHOP now for 5 hours waiting for someone to come get me. I don’t have any more money. Dad, you have to come get me, now!” pled Amy. Amy was a 20 year-old “prodigal daughter” in a far off state. Dad thought as he has for the past few years, “She needs my help. Honestly, she can’t do this on her own. This is way too hard for her… Why, she can’t even get out of bed on time .” The father booked the next flight to go help Amy. As a psychologist I’ve spent my life reading, studying and
“Mothering” Outside the Home
The message that a woman can be “happy” only when she is at home with children while her husband is at work – can cause great damage. For many of us this is a “dream” that hasn’t come true. In today’s world of divorce thousands of us worthy LDS women have had to prayerfully adapt to our personal needs because of our circumstances. The message that women are mothers only when they are at home with their children creates unnecessary guilt and depression. Two problems can arise from this false belief - I’m “sinning” or “failing as a mother” IF I go to work and leave my kids at daycare OR IF I have no children. The fact that my husband abandoned me and my children or that I am
Mothering
Abraham Lincoln once said, “The greatest book I ever read, you ask me? My mother.” What more exciting and challenging roles could come to a woman than to be a wife and mother in the final winding-up days of this dispensation before the Second Coming? To be the mother of the best spirits currently being sent to the earth in these latter days? Next to the Angels - 1942 The finest treatise on the importance of motherhood was issued by the First Presidency years ago while World War II was raging. Their counsel has proven to be prophetic: Motherhood [is] a holy calling, a sacred dedication for carrying out the Lord’s plans, a consecration of devotion to the uprearing and fostering, the nurturing in body, mind,
