By their Fruits Ye shall Know Them (3 Nephi 14: 16-20)
The Priesthood Given to the Blacks according to Worthiness
Doctrine and Covenants-Declaration 2
June 8, 1978
… We declare with soberness that the Lord has now made known his will for the blessing of all his children throughout the earth who will hearken to the voice of his authorized servants, and prepare themselves to receive every blessing of the gospel.
He (the Lord) has heard our prayers, and by revelation has confirmed that the long-promised day has come when every faithful, worthy man in the Church may receive the holy priesthood, with power to exercise its divine authority, and enjoy with his loved ones every blessing that flows there-from, including the blessings of the temple. Accordingly, all worthy male members of the Church may be ordained to the priesthood without regard for race or color. …
Sincerely yours,
SPENCER W. KIMBALL
N. ELDON TANNER
MARION G. ROMNEY
The First Presidency
3 Nephi 14: 16-20
16 Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
1 7 Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt three bringeth forth evil fruit.
18 A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
20 Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.
In 1986 Whitney was placed in our family for adoption. She is black-white by race. The adoption was finalized early in 1987 and she was sealed to us in the Salt Lake Temple at about 6 months of age.
Whitney is now 25 years old. She loves children. She is a kindergarten teacher of 26 five year old kids. She is always showing love especially to children. She was been a camp counselor for two summers in Massachusetts . This weekend as we were together as an extended family it was Whitney was on the playground picking up her two year old niece and nephew and pushing them on the swings; she was in the parking lot changing the dirty diaper; she was driving with her sister that needed help with two kids. Being Whitney’s mom I know she is full of love and goodness. I know Whitney by her daily good fruits.
Monday, October 24, 2011
Sunday, March 6, 2011
Eternal Families--The role of Mothers
At the BYU Art museum there is a display of Altar Pieces done by Carl Block. One of these Altar Pieces is Jesus in Gethsemane dressed in red. There is a very bright angel kneeling by his side. Katie and I went together the first time I saw it. She was holding little Mindy 3 months old and Chase (5) was with us. It was first noticeable that the angel was beautiful, long curly blond hair, a beautiful face, full of love and compassion, bringing streams of light down around the darkness that encompasses Jesus. The question appears in my mind. Who is this beautiful angel? Immediately the answer flashes into my mind---HIS MOTHER. I ask Katie who do you think the angel is? She answers –HIS MOTHER.
Jesus is experiencing the longest, darkest, most difficult night of eternity and an angel is sent to strengthen him. Luke is the only one that writes of it. Luke 22: 43. And there appeared an angel unto him from heaven, strengthening him. 44. And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.
Heavenly Mother unnamed, mentioned just briefly in one verse. There to strengthen her son. Oh, to have his mother next to him through his literal Gethsemane, kneeing by him with her arms around him.
How many children do you think Heavenly Mother and Father chose or are now choosing to have? How many do they have room for? How Many do they have energy to care for? How many do they love?
Our Examples!
Jesus is experiencing the longest, darkest, most difficult night of eternity and an angel is sent to strengthen him. Luke is the only one that writes of it. Luke 22: 43. And there appeared an angel unto him from heaven, strengthening him. 44. And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.
Heavenly Mother unnamed, mentioned just briefly in one verse. There to strengthen her son. Oh, to have his mother next to him through his literal Gethsemane, kneeing by him with her arms around him.
How many children do you think Heavenly Mother and Father chose or are now choosing to have? How many do they have room for? How Many do they have energy to care for? How many do they love?
Our Examples!
Friday, March 4, 2011
"My burden is Light
3 March 2011
My Burden is Light
Matthew 11:28-30
Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
29. Take my yoke upon you and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart; and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
30. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light
Light like sunshine. D&C 88 Light is intelligence, truth, comprehends all things, enlightenment. Photons have no weight. Light fills the immensity of space. God travels in ray of light we learn from Joseph Smith—Moroni travels in light but this traveling is faster than the speed of light. Jesus Christ is in the sun and the power by which the sun was made. We feel light increasing in our world bringing warmth, the first like spring time yellow flowers. Light bring new life. Light –sunlight and enlightment are both healing.
The DVD Family Man portrays a man who is given enlightenment because of a life- saving good deed that he does. The true greatest blessings of family that come with love are inacted against wealth and position and immorality. Family life is less sleep, work, caring for your children, not making near as much money, not having great respect and position at work, but somehow is so so much more than the emptiness of life without family. Light is given him-enlightment. Kate says “I don’t know why---You are just not supposed to get on that plane”. “I don’t know why” is the feeling of a greater truth-- love and family.
Jesus Christ’s burden being light is not about easy, less labor, less work. No the pioneers show that his burden is great effort because of the effort required to come to know God. ( Francis Higbee- The price we paid to know God).
Search for enlightment, for truth, for the bigger eternal picture is in keeping the laws of God. When we do labor, work, effort, families, love, service for God’s Eternal Principles the reasons for the labor and sweat and tears and exhaustion make it a small price to pay for the rewards.
D&C 88:11 “who enlighteneth your eyes; which is the same light which quickeneth your understand;
Light which comes from God gives life to all things, governs all things, is the law, the power of God.
Light is all about power. The sun is Hydrogen and Helium heated to extreme temperatures and under great pressure. Solar power in just the right amount with water and earth allows life on earth. Expect Celestial Life and Righteous Earth Life to require great energy, for outcomes that eye hath not seen nor ear heard, nor yet entered into the heart of man.
The reasons for expending energy past fatigue are higher when based on light from God. His burden is light.
D&C 88:67 And if your eye be single to my glory, your whole bodies shall be filled with light, and there shall be no darkness in you; and that body which is filled with light comprehendeth all things.
My Burden is Light
Matthew 11:28-30
Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
29. Take my yoke upon you and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart; and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
30. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light
Light like sunshine. D&C 88 Light is intelligence, truth, comprehends all things, enlightenment. Photons have no weight. Light fills the immensity of space. God travels in ray of light we learn from Joseph Smith—Moroni travels in light but this traveling is faster than the speed of light. Jesus Christ is in the sun and the power by which the sun was made. We feel light increasing in our world bringing warmth, the first like spring time yellow flowers. Light bring new life. Light –sunlight and enlightment are both healing.
The DVD Family Man portrays a man who is given enlightenment because of a life- saving good deed that he does. The true greatest blessings of family that come with love are inacted against wealth and position and immorality. Family life is less sleep, work, caring for your children, not making near as much money, not having great respect and position at work, but somehow is so so much more than the emptiness of life without family. Light is given him-enlightment. Kate says “I don’t know why---You are just not supposed to get on that plane”. “I don’t know why” is the feeling of a greater truth-- love and family.
Jesus Christ’s burden being light is not about easy, less labor, less work. No the pioneers show that his burden is great effort because of the effort required to come to know God. ( Francis Higbee- The price we paid to know God).
Search for enlightment, for truth, for the bigger eternal picture is in keeping the laws of God. When we do labor, work, effort, families, love, service for God’s Eternal Principles the reasons for the labor and sweat and tears and exhaustion make it a small price to pay for the rewards.
D&C 88:11 “who enlighteneth your eyes; which is the same light which quickeneth your understand;
Light which comes from God gives life to all things, governs all things, is the law, the power of God.
Light is all about power. The sun is Hydrogen and Helium heated to extreme temperatures and under great pressure. Solar power in just the right amount with water and earth allows life on earth. Expect Celestial Life and Righteous Earth Life to require great energy, for outcomes that eye hath not seen nor ear heard, nor yet entered into the heart of man.
The reasons for expending energy past fatigue are higher when based on light from God. His burden is light.
D&C 88:67 And if your eye be single to my glory, your whole bodies shall be filled with light, and there shall be no darkness in you; and that body which is filled with light comprehendeth all things.
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Wow What a team!
Marta and Brad have bought a building for Brad's law office. To do it right all the old walls have been taken out. I have been part of an incredible team. Everyone works and helps each other. We are on the fourth day of demolition and have had the dumpster emptied twice. Everyone helps each other.
marta found a note from Jed today. it said Successful people are willing to do what others won't. Well we are doing just that and thank you everyone of you Harr Kids for working and helping so willingly.
marta found a note from Jed today. it said Successful people are willing to do what others won't. Well we are doing just that and thank you everyone of you Harr Kids for working and helping so willingly.
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Elder Jed is now a missionary Family Home Evening
20 July 2010 6:00am
Dear Heavenly Father,
Thank you so much for the missionaries that have served in our family and for Jedediah Craig Harr whose was set apart as a missionary Sunday 18 July 2010.
We had a very exceptional extended family home evening planned for a month or so by Marta. Val was conducting and he had ask every missionary in our family to share something special about their mission. The entire family, except for Whitney who is having her own spiritual experiences being an Especially For Youth Councilor for two weeks in Logan, gathered on the new deck at Fox Hunt.
We first ate Chinese which is not usual for us but was very good and we thank Brad for providing it for us and others added good things.
Val then took charge and we sang together “I Hope They Call Me on a Mission” and prayed and then Dave Stapel started and stood up front of the family and shared about learning to share yourself not trying to be someone else but sharing your own talents to find and teach the people that you were sent to teach that have been prepared for you. Cliff Lindford, Jeff McNeill, Jeremy Paulsen, Brad Harr and then Grandpa Chris, who was especially thrilled to have the opportunity to stand and tell about deciding to serve a mission and the spiritual Holy Ghost witnesses that accompanied his and Orla’s call to serve. Val followed and then (it is now dark) turned sometime over to Elder Jed.
Jed shared from memory:
THE STANDARD OF TRUTH
“…the standard of truth has been erected; No unhallowed hand can stop the work from progressing; persecutions may rage, mobs may combine, armies may assemble, calumny may defame, but the truth of God will go forth boldly, nobly, and independent, till it has penetrated every continent, visited every clime, swept every country, and sounded in every ear, till the purposes of God shall be accomplished, and the great Jehovah shall say the work is done.”
Joseph Smith Jr.
MY MISSIONARY COMMISSION
“I am called of God. My Authority is above that of the kings of the Earth. By revelation I have been selected as a personal representative of the Lord, Jesus Christ. He is my Master and he has chosen me to represent him. To stand in His Place, to say and do what He Himself would say and do if He personally were ministering to the very people to whom He has sent me. My Voice is His voice, and my acts are His acts, my words are His words and my doctrine is His doctrine. My commission is to do what He wants done. To say what He wants said. To be a living modern witness is word and deed of the divinity of His great and marvelous latter-day work.”
HOW GREAT IS MY CALLING
By Elder Bruce R. McConkie
As Jed spoke these words having memorized them I felt that Jesus Christ was standing right behind his shoulder.
I was reminded of Katie’s missionary scripture:
D&C 84:88
And whoso receiveth you, there I will be also, for I will go before your face. I will be on your right hand and on your left, and my Spirit shall be in your hearts, and mine angels round about you, to bear you up.
And a similar scripture:
D&C 49: 27
Behold, I will go before you and be your rearward; and I will be in your midst, and you shall not be confounded.
What a great privilege to be in the presence of Jesus Christ, our Savior. I did not see him I just had the impression that He was there as Jed spoke the words about representing Him.
In the days of Moses as the children of Israel traveled in the wilderness the presence of the Lord was witnessed constantly as a cloud over the tabernacle by day and a pillar of fire by night.
It is my goal to see him face to face as Moses diligently tried to inspire the children of Israel to do so.
It was a special time to hear Grandpa Chris tell us about his strong impressions of the Holy Ghost and how important it was to him. It was great to have him there as our senior patriarch to share. Katie also was especially powerful and she stood on a chair and told us about street corners and singing “I am a child of God”. Jeremy encouraged each kid there to know now that they are going to serve a mission. Jeff did not want to go where it was cold but went to serve in Michigan some days it was -20. He served. Brad told about putting a Book of Mormon on the roof as a creative way to get to share about it and how every missionary will have to think of their own ways of sharing. Cliff told of teaching a special young man who yelled to them over the fence and wanted to interview Mormons on their religion. He taught and loved that young man just a little older than he was and how he went on be become a missionary. Val met Bruce Olsen chopping wood and chopped wood for him the day he met him and now his sons have served missions. Every missionary added to the spirit as they shared their insights about their mission with us.
We closed the FHE by all singing a song lead by Brinley and then “Called to Serve” and little Brycen prayed.
Thank you Marta for providing us with this wonderful time together. The family all loved coming together to have this family home evening. The cousins played and did not want it to end. Little Bode and Emma were still running and play at 11:00pm. It was a beautiful feeling of being together.
It was an awesome evening.
Dear Heavenly Father,
Thank you so much for the missionaries that have served in our family and for Jedediah Craig Harr whose was set apart as a missionary Sunday 18 July 2010.
We had a very exceptional extended family home evening planned for a month or so by Marta. Val was conducting and he had ask every missionary in our family to share something special about their mission. The entire family, except for Whitney who is having her own spiritual experiences being an Especially For Youth Councilor for two weeks in Logan, gathered on the new deck at Fox Hunt.
We first ate Chinese which is not usual for us but was very good and we thank Brad for providing it for us and others added good things.
Val then took charge and we sang together “I Hope They Call Me on a Mission” and prayed and then Dave Stapel started and stood up front of the family and shared about learning to share yourself not trying to be someone else but sharing your own talents to find and teach the people that you were sent to teach that have been prepared for you. Cliff Lindford, Jeff McNeill, Jeremy Paulsen, Brad Harr and then Grandpa Chris, who was especially thrilled to have the opportunity to stand and tell about deciding to serve a mission and the spiritual Holy Ghost witnesses that accompanied his and Orla’s call to serve. Val followed and then (it is now dark) turned sometime over to Elder Jed.
Jed shared from memory:
THE STANDARD OF TRUTH
“…the standard of truth has been erected; No unhallowed hand can stop the work from progressing; persecutions may rage, mobs may combine, armies may assemble, calumny may defame, but the truth of God will go forth boldly, nobly, and independent, till it has penetrated every continent, visited every clime, swept every country, and sounded in every ear, till the purposes of God shall be accomplished, and the great Jehovah shall say the work is done.”
Joseph Smith Jr.
MY MISSIONARY COMMISSION
“I am called of God. My Authority is above that of the kings of the Earth. By revelation I have been selected as a personal representative of the Lord, Jesus Christ. He is my Master and he has chosen me to represent him. To stand in His Place, to say and do what He Himself would say and do if He personally were ministering to the very people to whom He has sent me. My Voice is His voice, and my acts are His acts, my words are His words and my doctrine is His doctrine. My commission is to do what He wants done. To say what He wants said. To be a living modern witness is word and deed of the divinity of His great and marvelous latter-day work.”
HOW GREAT IS MY CALLING
By Elder Bruce R. McConkie
As Jed spoke these words having memorized them I felt that Jesus Christ was standing right behind his shoulder.
I was reminded of Katie’s missionary scripture:
D&C 84:88
And whoso receiveth you, there I will be also, for I will go before your face. I will be on your right hand and on your left, and my Spirit shall be in your hearts, and mine angels round about you, to bear you up.
And a similar scripture:
D&C 49: 27
Behold, I will go before you and be your rearward; and I will be in your midst, and you shall not be confounded.
What a great privilege to be in the presence of Jesus Christ, our Savior. I did not see him I just had the impression that He was there as Jed spoke the words about representing Him.
In the days of Moses as the children of Israel traveled in the wilderness the presence of the Lord was witnessed constantly as a cloud over the tabernacle by day and a pillar of fire by night.
It is my goal to see him face to face as Moses diligently tried to inspire the children of Israel to do so.
It was a special time to hear Grandpa Chris tell us about his strong impressions of the Holy Ghost and how important it was to him. It was great to have him there as our senior patriarch to share. Katie also was especially powerful and she stood on a chair and told us about street corners and singing “I am a child of God”. Jeremy encouraged each kid there to know now that they are going to serve a mission. Jeff did not want to go where it was cold but went to serve in Michigan some days it was -20. He served. Brad told about putting a Book of Mormon on the roof as a creative way to get to share about it and how every missionary will have to think of their own ways of sharing. Cliff told of teaching a special young man who yelled to them over the fence and wanted to interview Mormons on their religion. He taught and loved that young man just a little older than he was and how he went on be become a missionary. Val met Bruce Olsen chopping wood and chopped wood for him the day he met him and now his sons have served missions. Every missionary added to the spirit as they shared their insights about their mission with us.
We closed the FHE by all singing a song lead by Brinley and then “Called to Serve” and little Brycen prayed.
Thank you Marta for providing us with this wonderful time together. The family all loved coming together to have this family home evening. The cousins played and did not want it to end. Little Bode and Emma were still running and play at 11:00pm. It was a beautiful feeling of being together.
It was an awesome evening.
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Monday, September 28, 2009
Charity is the Law of Abundance required by Zion people
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
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
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