In Jacob 5 the longest chapter in the book of Mormon much emphasis is placed on the balance of the top branches and leaves to the root beneath with the goal being good fruit. The branches represent materialism, the physical, our body. The roots represent the spiritual, our spirit, our love, and connection to God, our testimony of Jesus Christ and Heavenly Father.
Corrupt fruit comes from too many branches and leaves and too little root. Good Fruit comes when branches are cut off and roots are strong to support the top portion of the tree. There must be balance between the physical and the spiritual!
It is not what you see when you look at each of us. It is our roots, our unseen spiritual side balanced with branches and leaves that makes us yield good fruit and be able to be a people worthy to build Zion to be nurtured when all the rest of the world is cast into the fire and burned.
May we have spiritual strength to support the many physical blessings the Lord pours upon us. Always remember the source of our blessings and work, meaning love God and love others (Matt. 25) serving God by serving others, to yield good fruit.
It is found in the pattern of the atom. There is a polarity line and both left and right- both branches and roots are required for good fruit. The law of God is you must be found of the right hand side. More giving, excel in root strength-Love!!
Saturday, March 24, 2012
Follow the pattern
God’s Pattern In All Things
When we were young we would be given a pattern of shapes or beads and ask what comes next. By studying the previous pattern we could choose the completion of the pattern. Chiasmi are a pattern by which we can predict the ending from the beginning. The Periodic Chart with electrons being given definite positions as arranged by Helen A. Pawlowski has a distinct pattern which could be extended forever if we choose to go that far.
The pattern consists of seven circles with a polarity line dividing it in half. Families of elements with similar properties are located on the eight rays , four on the right and four on the left side. The pattern of where the next element is located is like butterfly wings or ∞ infinity symbol. Add four to the right then flip and add four to the left.
I think comparing the atom to our heart gives us an understanding of atoms. Both right and left heart are essential and yet function differently. The heart muscles must function two ways to contract and push blood out of the heart and to relax and allow blood to flow into the heart. With this combination of giving out blood and receiving blood and each side doing its different part we have life giving blood flowing through our bodies. Both the right and the left contact and relax, receive blood in and push it out.
In elements the electrons that are closest to the outside of the right side give or share when in contact with other atoms which is always. The electrons on the outside circle that end on the left side are receivers.
In the scriptures the Lord often tells us we want to be found on the right-hand side. In the atom that literally means to be a giver of electrons. The left side is certainly important but we don’t want to be found with morewanting to receive empty holes than we have giving, right side electrons. It would be like the heart always wanting to receive blood but not giving any out.
The Lord provides this opportunity of giving and sharing to everyone who comes to earth and we interact first of all in families and in all ways with one another. Parenthood is certainly an exercise in giving and caring. Babies all come needing love and care Parenthood means sleepless nights serving and it continues into the teenage years. Loving in families is like constant giving out of power and energy and forgiveness , or it should be.
The flow of electrons is energy, power, --maybe priesthood is ability to use this flow of electrons. As one atom gives off its electrons it receives more so it can again give off. Receiving is necessary to give again.
Body and spirit inseparably connected bring a fullness of joy. This will happen at resurrection but it begins with birth onto this earth. We received a body and a family. A physical body is a treasure. Satan and his hosts will never receive their own. Satan wants to possess our bodies here on earth. It seems when Heavenly Father gave Adam work it was about giving, loving, caring and chasing Satan away. Work and giving and light are connected. Satan does not like work or love. Notice how you feel better when you work real intently on something or love someone very much.
Jesus Christ and other Men of God have shown us that it is possible to have dominion over the physical, like parting the Red Sea, moving mountains, stopping the mouths of lions, raising the dead, multiplying food, controlling the weather, armies being victorious, walking on water, and having an abundance of food, clothing, shelter, health, the renewing of our bodies and many other physical things I have not mentioned that you can think of. Of course the greatest is Jesus Christ overcoming physical death first for himself and then for us. He also gave us the atonement to overcome sin and pain and know and understand every suffering we go through to have perfect compassion and love.
The center of the atom is protons with a positive charge. They pull electrons back to the atom. They are like a come home female force. The pattern of husband and wife sealed is this left right, outside and center balance. As in the heart male and female have different functions each essential to the whole.
The chiastic pattern of x is like ∞ .
We are each both beggars and givers. We are always dependent upon God as King Mosiah tells us even for every breath. Yet in our lives we should strive to be givers. We are as mirrors in the sealing rooms; there is the chandelier giving us love and light and we show strive to reflect that love and light back and forth among us increasing the original light by our reflections. ∞ Receiving then shinning back the love and light sent to us from God and each other.
There are 8 elements on Helen’s Chart that she named sliders and I call super-givers. These 8 elements have a chiastic structure in the arrangement of their electrons. Examples are 20 Calcium 2 8 8 2 ; 56 Barium 2 8 18 18 8 2 . Calcium shares its outside last two electrons with the elements 21-28 the next 8 elements. Barium shares it outside last two electrons with the next 22 elements 57 through 78. This chiastic structure truly makes these last two electrons super givers.
For me what I see in this pattern is about following the Savior’s directive to become even as he is. To be a Savior on Mt. Zion we must be like being Barium’s last two electrons giving for 22 others or many more. How can I lift and share and love others is my message of this pattern.
When we were young we would be given a pattern of shapes or beads and ask what comes next. By studying the previous pattern we could choose the completion of the pattern. Chiasmi are a pattern by which we can predict the ending from the beginning. The Periodic Chart with electrons being given definite positions as arranged by Helen A. Pawlowski has a distinct pattern which could be extended forever if we choose to go that far.
The pattern consists of seven circles with a polarity line dividing it in half. Families of elements with similar properties are located on the eight rays , four on the right and four on the left side. The pattern of where the next element is located is like butterfly wings or ∞ infinity symbol. Add four to the right then flip and add four to the left.
I think comparing the atom to our heart gives us an understanding of atoms. Both right and left heart are essential and yet function differently. The heart muscles must function two ways to contract and push blood out of the heart and to relax and allow blood to flow into the heart. With this combination of giving out blood and receiving blood and each side doing its different part we have life giving blood flowing through our bodies. Both the right and the left contact and relax, receive blood in and push it out.
In elements the electrons that are closest to the outside of the right side give or share when in contact with other atoms which is always. The electrons on the outside circle that end on the left side are receivers.
In the scriptures the Lord often tells us we want to be found on the right-hand side. In the atom that literally means to be a giver of electrons. The left side is certainly important but we don’t want to be found with morewanting to receive empty holes than we have giving, right side electrons. It would be like the heart always wanting to receive blood but not giving any out.
The Lord provides this opportunity of giving and sharing to everyone who comes to earth and we interact first of all in families and in all ways with one another. Parenthood is certainly an exercise in giving and caring. Babies all come needing love and care Parenthood means sleepless nights serving and it continues into the teenage years. Loving in families is like constant giving out of power and energy and forgiveness , or it should be.
The flow of electrons is energy, power, --maybe priesthood is ability to use this flow of electrons. As one atom gives off its electrons it receives more so it can again give off. Receiving is necessary to give again.
Body and spirit inseparably connected bring a fullness of joy. This will happen at resurrection but it begins with birth onto this earth. We received a body and a family. A physical body is a treasure. Satan and his hosts will never receive their own. Satan wants to possess our bodies here on earth. It seems when Heavenly Father gave Adam work it was about giving, loving, caring and chasing Satan away. Work and giving and light are connected. Satan does not like work or love. Notice how you feel better when you work real intently on something or love someone very much.
Jesus Christ and other Men of God have shown us that it is possible to have dominion over the physical, like parting the Red Sea, moving mountains, stopping the mouths of lions, raising the dead, multiplying food, controlling the weather, armies being victorious, walking on water, and having an abundance of food, clothing, shelter, health, the renewing of our bodies and many other physical things I have not mentioned that you can think of. Of course the greatest is Jesus Christ overcoming physical death first for himself and then for us. He also gave us the atonement to overcome sin and pain and know and understand every suffering we go through to have perfect compassion and love.
The center of the atom is protons with a positive charge. They pull electrons back to the atom. They are like a come home female force. The pattern of husband and wife sealed is this left right, outside and center balance. As in the heart male and female have different functions each essential to the whole.
The chiastic pattern of x is like ∞ .
We are each both beggars and givers. We are always dependent upon God as King Mosiah tells us even for every breath. Yet in our lives we should strive to be givers. We are as mirrors in the sealing rooms; there is the chandelier giving us love and light and we show strive to reflect that love and light back and forth among us increasing the original light by our reflections. ∞ Receiving then shinning back the love and light sent to us from God and each other.
There are 8 elements on Helen’s Chart that she named sliders and I call super-givers. These 8 elements have a chiastic structure in the arrangement of their electrons. Examples are 20 Calcium 2 8 8 2 ; 56 Barium 2 8 18 18 8 2 . Calcium shares its outside last two electrons with the elements 21-28 the next 8 elements. Barium shares it outside last two electrons with the next 22 elements 57 through 78. This chiastic structure truly makes these last two electrons super givers.
For me what I see in this pattern is about following the Savior’s directive to become even as he is. To be a Savior on Mt. Zion we must be like being Barium’s last two electrons giving for 22 others or many more. How can I lift and share and love others is my message of this pattern.
Monday, October 24, 2011
Good Fruits Black Roots
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.
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.
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.
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