Meridian Magazine answers my question about Newton"s Law , the Law of the Harvest and How the Law of Consecration works. It is not a law of everyone puts everything they have into the pot and takes out equally. I believe free agency and charity must be at the core of the Law of Consecration and the Law of Abundance described here are always God's Law sending blessing for sacrifice.
Meridian magazine---I recommend the entire article.
Charitable service creates a positive imbalance that demands correcting. This is the hundredfoldlaw, 9 which President Thomas S. Monson described this way: “It is an immutable law that the more you give away, the more you receive.” Then, referencing a quote attributed to Winston Churchill, he said, “‘You make a living by what you get, but you make a life by what you give.’” 10 The Lord always rewards us with more than we sacrifice.
This “immutable law”—the hundredfold law—drives Zion’s cycle of abundance and makes Zion people exceedingly prosperous. 11 Of course, this law runs contrary to Babylon’s practices of grabbing, competing and hoarding. The hundredfold law, which flows from the law of consecration, stipulates that if we will give what we have and are, the Lord will reward us beyond our sacrifice: “an hundredfold."
http://www.meridianmagazine.com/zionperson/090923charity.html
This is so the law the atom teaches. Right side electrons give which does create a literal positive imbalance which does demand correction by then being the receiver.
Atoms with electrons ending of the left side want to receive. They take electrons making them Babylon of grabbing, and hoarding. The atom exemplifies these laws of God found working everywhere in the universe.
The is exactly the law governing the atom. Right side electron give and by giving do create a positive imbalance which requires receiving. Atoms with electron that end on the left side have empty holes and take electrons--grabbing or hoarding them. To be saved by God we must literally be on his right-hand side---givers. But givers will be rewarded 100 fold.
Zion will function by charity the law of right side givers.
see http://orderintheatom.blogspot.com
Monday, September 28, 2009
Jakob's Miracle
V and B along with S and C were at a girls’camp above Cedar City working to set up for the Fall Camporee for St. George Scouts. The camp was in the tops of the mountains covered with quaking aspen just turned yellow and orange. 260 scouts and their leaders were to show there that night to start activities planned from 9:00pm to 1:00 am. It was the first for everyone there to have the activities all done by headlights.
M had as usual gotten one hour of sleep in the early morning hours and had worked night to have everything organized for the camp. Yet there are always things to be done just before the boys arrive. V had packed all day Thursday and the truck and trailer were loaded for our early take off Friday morning. The whole H family met us in Cedar City. I left with Marta and Junior team and L to go to St. George where we were scheduled to register participants for the Triathlon and finish preparations for the scout camp. E worked on making dinner for V, B and whowould need it at scout camp, finished making winner badges, M worked on a tough scheduling adgenda of how 42 troops would do each of 6 x 3 activities which she could not figure out throught the middle of the night. L and I were boiling water and dumping it in coolers for hot chocolate for the boys breakfast of pancakes and sausages.
Liesl and I dumped a very large pot of just boiled water into a very large cooler probably holding u[ to 10 gallons. It was not probably about 1/3 filled and was last of the four coolers we were going to fill. We have each left the stove area of the kitchen when we heard the scream. J had tipped the cooler of just boiled water over on him. Marta from the office reached him first and turned on the cold water. I took him as she reached for ice and I searched for burn areas was it on his hands or face I could see his little foes turning white and knew it was especially one foot that I kept dumping cold water over.
The rest can be read on Marta’s blog. But on Sunday v and I went to a church across from Sun Brook Golf Course and a scout age boy talked on Wilford Woodruff. God does love us was Barbara Thompson’s message Sat. night at RS conference even if your child sick or …
Here is Wilford Woodruff praise for protection even when injured:
Wilford Woodruff learned to trust deeply in the power of the Lord early in life. According to his own record, he underwent many accidents and other hardships and was only spared because of the mercy of the Lord. He fell into a caldron of scalding water at the age of three; (J turns 3 in less than 2 months) he slipped from a beam in his father’s barn, landing on his face on the bare floor; he broke both his arms by falls; he narrowly missed being gored by a bull; he broke his leg by a fall from a carriage; he was kicked in the stomach by an ox; he was buried beneath a load of hay when his wagon tipped over; he was in a wagon that overturned when a runaway horse bolted down a hill; he fell fifteen feet from a tree, landing fiat on his back; he was saved from drowning in thirty feet of water; he narrowly escaped freezing to death when a passerby happened to see him crawl into the hollow of an apple tree; he split open the instep of his left foot while chopping wood; he was bitten by a dog in the last stages of rabies; he was thrown from a runaway horse and broke one of his legs in two places and dislocated both ankles. All of this happened before Wilford was twenty years old!
Later he fell twice from the top of a mill wheel, narrowly escaping being crushed to death. On two other occasions he was dragged behind a runaway horse; a gun aimed directly at his chest snapped accidentally but fortunately misfired; a falling tree hit him in the chest, breaking his breastbone and three ribs and badly bruising his left thigh, hip, and arm.
It is no wonder that he early recognized the Lord’s power to preserve him. Contemplating these accidents later in his life he said, “I, therefore, ascribe my preservation on earth to the watchcare of a merciful Providence, whose hand has been stretched out to rescue me from death when I was in the presence of the most threatening dangers.”
A thoughtful young man, he always wanted to do what was right. In his early teens he wrote, “My age is an important period in the life of every man; for, generally speaking, at this period of life man forms much of his character for time and eternity. How cautious I ought to be in passing this landmark along the road of my early existence! I feel that I need care, prudence, circumspection and wisdom to guide my footsteps in the path which leads to honor and eternal life.”
His constant search for guidance led him often to the Lord in prayer so that when he finally did have the opportunity to hear the gospel, he was well prepared to receive it.
Prayer , priesthood blessings and fasting along with doctors helping show M how to help the burns and blusters heal will help J heal. His loving brothers and sisters, mom and dad will be carrying him for a few weeks. It reminds me of the bond between Hymn and Joseph when Hyrum held Joseph for months when as a youth his leg bone had to be cut out. Somehow good things come out of difficult things.
It was a great Fall Camporee. No scouts were injured… but boy were they tired!
M had as usual gotten one hour of sleep in the early morning hours and had worked night to have everything organized for the camp. Yet there are always things to be done just before the boys arrive. V had packed all day Thursday and the truck and trailer were loaded for our early take off Friday morning. The whole H family met us in Cedar City. I left with Marta and Junior team and L to go to St. George where we were scheduled to register participants for the Triathlon and finish preparations for the scout camp. E worked on making dinner for V, B and whowould need it at scout camp, finished making winner badges, M worked on a tough scheduling adgenda of how 42 troops would do each of 6 x 3 activities which she could not figure out throught the middle of the night. L and I were boiling water and dumping it in coolers for hot chocolate for the boys breakfast of pancakes and sausages.
Liesl and I dumped a very large pot of just boiled water into a very large cooler probably holding u[ to 10 gallons. It was not probably about 1/3 filled and was last of the four coolers we were going to fill. We have each left the stove area of the kitchen when we heard the scream. J had tipped the cooler of just boiled water over on him. Marta from the office reached him first and turned on the cold water. I took him as she reached for ice and I searched for burn areas was it on his hands or face I could see his little foes turning white and knew it was especially one foot that I kept dumping cold water over.
The rest can be read on Marta’s blog. But on Sunday v and I went to a church across from Sun Brook Golf Course and a scout age boy talked on Wilford Woodruff. God does love us was Barbara Thompson’s message Sat. night at RS conference even if your child sick or …
Here is Wilford Woodruff praise for protection even when injured:
Wilford Woodruff learned to trust deeply in the power of the Lord early in life. According to his own record, he underwent many accidents and other hardships and was only spared because of the mercy of the Lord. He fell into a caldron of scalding water at the age of three; (J turns 3 in less than 2 months) he slipped from a beam in his father’s barn, landing on his face on the bare floor; he broke both his arms by falls; he narrowly missed being gored by a bull; he broke his leg by a fall from a carriage; he was kicked in the stomach by an ox; he was buried beneath a load of hay when his wagon tipped over; he was in a wagon that overturned when a runaway horse bolted down a hill; he fell fifteen feet from a tree, landing fiat on his back; he was saved from drowning in thirty feet of water; he narrowly escaped freezing to death when a passerby happened to see him crawl into the hollow of an apple tree; he split open the instep of his left foot while chopping wood; he was bitten by a dog in the last stages of rabies; he was thrown from a runaway horse and broke one of his legs in two places and dislocated both ankles. All of this happened before Wilford was twenty years old!
Later he fell twice from the top of a mill wheel, narrowly escaping being crushed to death. On two other occasions he was dragged behind a runaway horse; a gun aimed directly at his chest snapped accidentally but fortunately misfired; a falling tree hit him in the chest, breaking his breastbone and three ribs and badly bruising his left thigh, hip, and arm.
It is no wonder that he early recognized the Lord’s power to preserve him. Contemplating these accidents later in his life he said, “I, therefore, ascribe my preservation on earth to the watchcare of a merciful Providence, whose hand has been stretched out to rescue me from death when I was in the presence of the most threatening dangers.”
A thoughtful young man, he always wanted to do what was right. In his early teens he wrote, “My age is an important period in the life of every man; for, generally speaking, at this period of life man forms much of his character for time and eternity. How cautious I ought to be in passing this landmark along the road of my early existence! I feel that I need care, prudence, circumspection and wisdom to guide my footsteps in the path which leads to honor and eternal life.”
His constant search for guidance led him often to the Lord in prayer so that when he finally did have the opportunity to hear the gospel, he was well prepared to receive it.
Prayer , priesthood blessings and fasting along with doctors helping show M how to help the burns and blusters heal will help J heal. His loving brothers and sisters, mom and dad will be carrying him for a few weeks. It reminds me of the bond between Hymn and Joseph when Hyrum held Joseph for months when as a youth his leg bone had to be cut out. Somehow good things come out of difficult things.
It was a great Fall Camporee. No scouts were injured… but boy were they tired!
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
The Law of Consecration &
Newton’s Cradle
The Law of Consecration is you would give everything to the Lord, all your time and talents and everything you possess. Does this negate the law of for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction or the law of justice?Newton’s Cradle
I read a book recently where the saints were called by the prophet to gather at the ward building and bring all their food storage with them, leave their houses and their cars and go to camps in the mountains. It is a difficult decision for people will they follow the prophet and “gather”? My friend says this is beautiful; everyone is equal and gives all they have to the good of all. She would share all that she has with the group. For her it would be a beautiful experience of loving everyone.
I ask W about this and she explained what happened at the Gathering Place when management changed the rules of how tips were distributed. The old way had been the tips you make the night you work were given to each employee. The new way was to pool all tips for the month and then divide them equally. This was very upsetting to at least J and K and W. Some night employees put up many tables and served a complete dinner, some other shifts there was just a desert served. They knew some shifts required much more work than other shifts and equal distribution of tips was not fair. Who would want to work the hard shifts why not just work the easy shifts and get as much money. The purpose for working was to make money and the more you put into it the more you should earn. Equal pay for different amounts of work was not fair.
Newton’s Cradle is some steel balls hung by string and when you pull back on the ball on one side it swings back and knocks the ball out on the opposite side. It shows that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. This is a law of physics. More gas the engine works harder and faster and the speed increases. Basically the more you put into an action the more you get out of it. Little expended little returned, Much put into an action more returned.
The Law of the harvest is he who plants and works the soil and waters and weeds is he who reaps the crop. With the help of God you could reap the seeds you sew.
America has been the land of opportunity. Citizens could work hard and reap the fruits of their labors and ask for the blessings of God to help them in their labors and go through tribulation but reap abundance.
So the Law of Consecration is God’s Law of the best living. Give everything to God and trust Him to care for you. The Lord warns us that it is difficult for the rich man to get into Heaven it is like going through the eye of the needle. The camel must unload his pack and crawl through on his knees.
I have always believed that there must be a reason to do good. That the law of Justice held that if you do good you will reap good. Cast your bread on the water and it will come back magnified. Pay your tithing and the Lord will open the windows of heaven. You receive blessings for doing good and do all the good that you can and the Lord will greatly bless you.
H says she could give up her house easily because she believes the Lord would not put her out in the cold and move some do nothing person into her house. She says Trust the Lord to take care of you.
Food storage has always been important to me. I have even given my young kids powdered milk for their birthday present. It has been a priority to have food storage and some investments and money in savings.
Would the Lord ask me to give all and make everyone equal?
Zion says there were no poor among them. I want to help others but will it be by prophet mandate. Everyone must give everything they have to the pot and everyone draws out equally.
I want the opportunity and the Lord’s blessing on my efforts to prepare for when and if food storage would be needed and the opportunity to willing share not by commandment to share but by Do unto others as you would have loves do to you and Love you neighbor and do good to those who despitefully use you. I want the opportunity to prepare and to give and share and grow by learning more about mercy and the gift of charity the greatest love comes from God to me. - Can I then love others?
Eternity and Temple covenants are so connected with family. Love is so connected with family. In my life I have been a mother and a grandmother. I want to have the opportunity of sharing first with those I love and care about the most-My family. God is my Heavenly Father. We are sealed to our families. I prepare because I want to be able to take care of first of all my family. They are always on my mind in storing up for what they might need in hard times in the future. Daily they now are concerned about me and V and we are daily concerned about them. Each has different needs and help is never equal.
If all efforts are pooled together and given out equally is there any incentive to prepare abundantly?
I know I too am a beggar dependant on God for every breath, for life, for strength, for family, for all things. May I return even part of the goodness He gives to me. I want to love the Lord with all my heart, might , mind and strength and trust him.
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