tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71851156489119390222024-02-19T06:51:24.572-05:00Dunson AdventuresFollow along with the Dunson adventures!Dunson Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16930999177651827403noreply@blogger.comBlogger62125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7185115648911939022.post-33435338074699612192020-09-03T09:30:00.001-04:002020-09-05T17:36:59.065-04:00Fun in the sun?<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Stronger and Stronger</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #454545; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; white-space: pre;">In my previous posts, we talked about things that strengthen families. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #454545; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; white-space: pre;">I wanted to continue with that theme. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #454545; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; white-space: pre;">You know what also helps to strengthen families?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #454545; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-large; text-align: center; white-space: pre;">Family Fun</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-199488df-7fff-9fce-ab1d-3ee6857c9a68" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 832px; overflow: hidden; width: 624px;"><img height="832" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/nAPeSjoscvj3_V1W5vAiZAVt12cBEm55GYAoPwKtCWPeUlScS7YuMRIkzzGtTayVRASZ4wrSh1SU6uYgxZ3JzI5W-A2LH2NEhDNkrS-30QjffvlWQwIKSAp_xxUOUivDE9ByvMpC" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="624" /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><a href="https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/the-family-a-proclamation-to-the-world/the-family-a-proclamation-to-the-world?lang=eng" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The Family: A Proclamation to the World</span></a><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">teaches us, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">“Successful marriages and families are established and maintained on principles of faith, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">prayer, repentance, forgiveness, respect, love, compassion, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">work, and wholesome recreational activities.”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 832px; overflow: hidden; width: 624px;"><img height="832" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/SvZACD6WMxdee9Ay9zWvdB9nJCn-4ucm4jGR316QqSCXHVC_XLS0mC2IQKB7WgUDaYWpDaCM9GIcA4weOwfk0AL-37qC-ulHPq4dNogyEgjpWPfqs1S9b8hwT2vaFFwhIII8-p4N" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="624" /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Do you hear me? </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Spending time with your family can actually strengthen your family! </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">I don’t want you to ever feel like you’re doing nothing when you are on a getaway with your family. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Trips, not your thing that’s ok. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">You don’t even have to leave your house. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">It doesn’t matter what your family enjoys. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">What is important is that you do it together as a family.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 469px; overflow: hidden; width: 624px;"><img height="469" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/zsJ7tTx4qXuGnmXUTWQ-bUu8cGH_JbhcHtuI6s9AHTcoxJ1xLJD8n5My1v6EEfMJMnwZvnMckAIpdvfHwC3ogP7V1zW0Eu5NgXPlFOWtZyNV40FfgXdFudS411wkVya0Fl_2UIbD" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="624" /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">“Our free time should be used wisely to create the best possible life, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">to promote individual growth and strengthen families. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Meaningful recreation does not just happen; it must be prepared for, cultivated, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">and privately defended.”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Bottom line. If we want to strengthen our families we have to put in the TIME.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 514px; overflow: hidden; width: 514px;"><img height="514" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/vXBqsPu8NFlPjomlasrxTL3syfzd6h0vIc8Av0Nu8c1XOevxmcmuD7MgejzRTQZ2NmgYPy7OWP9n00VNBPbIgYlMheGZwNd-RVO8GQ2WBFv6zgELRf28pMK5A2q7V3C0zcop4hE1" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="514" /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The quoted selection and themes are from my textbook; </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Marriages and Families Proclamation Principles and Research Perspectives</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> Edited by Alan J. Hawkins David C. Dollahite Thomas W. Draper</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><br /></p>Dunson Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16930999177651827403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7185115648911939022.post-29230381392765265582020-08-28T11:00:00.002-04:002020-09-05T17:43:42.116-04:00Family Work<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Let’s get this party started</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Are you picturing your last late-night party that you danced the night away?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">I’m not talking about that kind of party. I’m talking about a family work party. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Yes raising a family is hard work. But that’s not what I’m talking about either.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 468px; overflow: hidden; width: 624px;"><img height="468" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/TyUMKPPKiRSPr2ZSYKTvk2d_A2RObzuRouSxyMt83tiAP9YDXS6vto1G4vmVIZoYfxRnqbGFNrf9RKq-C2_-bw-NB7M_91hWxGPkj1qEP7Ta9A6yXm_r2EptCUpZ2Eezu5RUGcju" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="624" /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">In our house, Saturday mornings are typically spent cleaning together and listening to </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">the parents' music of choice. Everyone is cleaning. You could call it mandatory family fun.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> I say this in jest. Cleaning isn’t my favorite thing to do. In all honesty, when I can afford it </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">I pay someone to help me clean the house. So what’s the point? What are we doing? </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Do I just want to make my children miserable?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 468px; overflow: hidden; width: 624px;"><img height="468" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/uJ_91_dgaLckiVLzaX7K5QvLNzGzn0ER6pmYPxuHvvMogWXbea50eoq9LX3nPeOs41_XSXDrDBZgdVKwyuYsXkkhcvVL6nPPW5syDPjk9IvD1VqqUas_L9UvnbKmgCqFEZkzR4ij" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="624" /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">No. I know the value of family work. I know that it strengthens my family.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ee; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/the-family-a-proclamation-to-the-world/the-family-a-proclamation-to-the-world?lang=eng" style="text-decoration: none;">The Family: A Proclamation to the </a>World </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">teaches us, </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;">“Successful marriages and families are established </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;">and maintained on principles of. . . work.”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><img height="832" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/dnj7mqAmYs8ixuoJgAzHoSxTI565u1PufnlUOqSM1Wwdf6KUfEzVx9ZZP8PAFFupLaX4dz7QDly5hCeDPMq6m-3oeMLmzehNNAKcjY2bLO7zQTF_Oq-PTXr5HE_x8f3sJz39n27b" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;" width="624" /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">“The reason family-centered work brings blessings and salvation is so obvious in common experience that it has become obscure: Family work provides endless opportunities to recognize and fill others’ needs. It thus teaches us to love and serve one another, inviting us to be like Jesus Christ. Elder Neal A. Maxwell observed, “The divine attributes of love, mercy, patience, submis-siveness, meekness, purity . . . cannot be developed in the abstract. These require the clinical experiences. . . . Nor can these attributes be developed in a hurry””</span></p><p><span id="docs-internal-guid-7cb2c19e-7fff-c188-6e0f-bf6ac7c79504"></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The quoted selection and themes are from my textbook; </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Marriages and Families Proclamation Principles and Research Perspectives </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Edited by Alan J. Hawkins David C. Dollahite Thomas W. Draper</span></p>Dunson Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16930999177651827403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7185115648911939022.post-33923504284964651012020-08-26T17:00:00.001-04:002020-09-05T17:46:26.108-04:00It Takes a Village<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Faith in Family Life</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">We’ve all heard the African saying, “It takes a village to raise a child. In today's fast-paced </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">world where do we find such a village? Well, the first place to look is our own family. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">There’s parents, siblings, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins. What if we are far from </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">our families? Then we could turn to our neighbors, schools, and communities. What if they</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> do not share our same values and thinking that we wish to teach our children? Many people </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">have turned to their schools with disappointing results. Who then should we turn to? Our church </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">family!</span></p><p><b id="docs-internal-guid-cff17069-7fff-ccfb-6e78-cbe33fe5e141" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 936px; overflow: hidden; width: 624px;"><img height="936" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/Z9DRr2-BztYesBOQblCVhtiQalVlaUCE8lOBiQKSRw0nHGVIbHQuOKW1xt2Ca6154LPG-4F7d354-9eHjRbgdfPNtkbOJG_zmRrZfgTH06Yp2xOJLnSMcooOPjET-IXh0GuA786p" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="624" /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">We likely share many of the same values with our church family. I am so thankful to be a </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">part of a </span><a href="https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/?lang=eng" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">worldwide church.</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> My husband is a soldier and we often move. I don’t have to find</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> a new church family whenever we move. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 936px; overflow: hidden; width: 624px;"><img height="936" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/znR7-WrRngxi04zyyp8WiBo0PAdHUPclatSIiXUkCX9FMoWYk0tv9ZLs_h3sOQ3ESybIbxE123yhbaNsHS0y7w1HIqdjE3aeV2xQVV7rAKDxHaOtrt1mIfzJld233P4NxOwtnM1N" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="624" /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><a href="https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/the-family-a-proclamation-to-the-world/the-family-a-proclamation-to-the-world?lang=eng" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The Family: A Proclamation to the World</span></a><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">teaches us, “ Successful marriages and families </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">are established and maintained on principles of faith [and] prayer.” There are numerous </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">scientific studies citing its importance. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 936px; overflow: hidden; width: 624px;"><img height="936" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/6mGBoriod6uNAJjsuV4bqo3_n1x-Sfl1BoXKU1p1R5QrvZUC9fn6omiuG_v_en2iMGu-NDnePJ5tu-oGiY-Rjc0avvfWNzNPdxa3R8IPVLCAkRpV7Azw7n9L0TP2KWM2OBlpp3Qu" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="624" /></span></span></p><p><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">“In the words of one African American father, “When you believe in God . . . yes, the boat still</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> gets to rockin’ but [God] says, ‘In me, you can weather the storm’”. Social science evidence </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">suggests that shared faith appears to be a principle upon which “successful marriages and </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">families are established and maintained,” even during the storm."</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The quoted selection and themes are from my textbook; </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Marriages and Families Proclamation Principles and Research Perspectives </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Edited by Alan J. Hawkins David C. Dollahite Thomas W. Draper</span></p><p><br /><br /><br /></p>Dunson Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16930999177651827403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7185115648911939022.post-73152505079385806282020-08-23T16:57:00.001-04:002020-09-05T17:49:00.643-04:00Dearest Dad<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Father Knows Best</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 468px; overflow: hidden; width: 624px;"><img height="468" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/lfzYW4JYde-IcTokWlSFxZhfPSNFakPAIGn6E7NKumdqhZcUuoD_WO6299hW-p0qW9AXuAzPJ6FTd1A48uEbAkHbgM9nv3lvkTm6Xiu6m1eg1Dm9q9I18Mp1MsfOdwUIGjwPynJV" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="624" /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">What I know about fatherhood I’ve learned from the many Godly men that have influenced my life. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">My own biological father was not in my life as a child. I had many “stand in Dads”. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Men that loved me and provided for me. The best example of fatherhood that I have seen</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> is that of my own husband with my children. He also didn’t have his biological father present I</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">n his life. You could never tell though. He is loving, patient, playful, nurturing, and when appropriate firm.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><a href="https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/the-family-a-proclamation-to-the-world/the-family-a-proclamation-to-the-world?lang=eng" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The Family: A Proclamation to the World</span></a><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">teaches us that “by divine design, fathers are to preside</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> over their families in love and righteousness.”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> Let’s break that down.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> Fatherhood = Preside</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> 1.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Spiritual leader</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">2.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Provide the necessities of life</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">3.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Spiritually guide in love and righteousness</span></p><p><b id="docs-internal-guid-fec813ab-7fff-3f6c-8ddb-84442625a3de" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Preside does </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">not</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> mean</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> 1.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">All-knowing</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">2.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Fear inducing</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">3.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Controlling</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">“President Ezra Taft Benson reinforced this key principle of fathering in a conference address: </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">“God established that fathers are to preside in the home. Fathers are to provide love, teach,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> and direct”.”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">OK by now you know that my title is in jest. Fathers do have the responsibility to preside for their </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">families. This doesn’t mean that they always know best. But sometimes they just might.</span></p><p><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The quoted selection and themes are from my textbook; Marriages and Families Proclamation Principles</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small; text-decoration-line: underline; white-space: pre;"> and Research Perspectives </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small; text-decoration-line: underline; white-space: pre;">Edited by Alan J. Hawkins David C. Dollahite Thomas W. Draper</span></p><p><br /></p>Dunson Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16930999177651827403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7185115648911939022.post-29057052428009132712020-08-21T16:54:00.001-04:002020-09-05T17:51:57.515-04:00Dream a Little Dream<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Importance of Mothers</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 624px; overflow: hidden; width: 624px;"><img height="624" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/sbw19FcCk4JovA3rqJRhl8BOL-uDYAKJryrHW1NcFS9KqkXzgmO_3bLMkmwxiL7MS8ZHYPm6y49scQmulanPLw-O9eiFNRC5fTOm7oTFXNNRKF0yOwm-YXK8Eq9qLl48LBBUudow" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="624" /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">When I was a child, I dreamed about what I could do to make the world a better place. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Nowhere in my dream was having a family. Whatever it was I would make a bunch of money </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">and probably have several degrees. I saw a photo of children in Africa. There need was so great. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">There were humanitarians handing out aid and doctors providing life-saving vaccinations. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">I noticed there were several people in the photos who looked like they needed some dental care. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">That’s it I thought. I’ll go to the other side of the world and become a dentist. That’s how I can </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">make the world a better place.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Fast forward 20 or so years. Yes, I’m living on the other side of the world. Am I a dentist? No. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">What do I do then? Well, I work for the US Embassy. What’s my profession? I am a mother of 5. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">I am a hardworking, dedicated, God-fearing, Christian Values living mother. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">This will be my life’s work and legacy. Mother.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 832px; overflow: hidden; width: 624px;"><img height="832" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/2wmrKPnIrm7ZJxYSQe7x2hyQKtvMxFX3ySV5eCtMrhs7f-BP0WQpbjSycd30Bc16lETgL6ugZBNnmc3zQEjGia8a081h4tpwmjY_1Ax9hEKgw4EJ86Mmi4dt3URDlBhKCJlFmlxv" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="624" /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">“Motherhood is the greatest potential influence either for good or ill in human life. The mother’s</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> image is the first that stamps itself on the unwritten page of the young child’s mind. It is </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">her </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;">caress that first awakens a sense of security; her kiss, the first realization of affection; </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">her </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;">sympathy and tenderness, the first assurance that there is love in the world.”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 469px; overflow: hidden; width: 624px;"><img height="469" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/etNE7BRDUUSr_KOdVbXBFGyLR9NlksOR4HUNltEO8hPHb9z8nFZO9Lggm6FdvaqqSEPUMZYNOHmCXHntdPZuQQKKY_FXfnLJaBGh2mbjHlLcLJUzHlHP_dlzA3QPh6iGwgU9wSZ9" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="624" /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Will this be my only contribution to society? I most certainly hope not!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">I hope to be one that others will know as a force for good. I know that as a mother I have a </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">divine calling to nurture the children around me.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">“As Sister Sheri Dew, who has not had the opportunity to marry or bear children, explained: </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Of all the words they could have chosen to define her role and her essence, both God the Father</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> and Adam called Eve “the mother of all living”—and they did so before she ever bore a child. . . .</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> Motherhood is more than bearing children. . . . It is the essence of who we are as women. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">It defines our very identity, our divine stature and nature, and the unique traits our Father gave us”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The quoted selections are from my textbook; </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Marriages and Families Proclamation Principles and Research Perspectives</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small; text-decoration-line: underline; white-space: pre;"> Edited by Alan J. Hawkins David C. Dollahite Thomas W. Draper</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span></p><p><span id="docs-internal-guid-681ac35e-7fff-548b-2230-805cc899ccd2"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span></p>Dunson Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16930999177651827403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7185115648911939022.post-49427928322307348772020-08-20T16:51:00.002-04:002020-09-05T17:56:24.963-04:00Plain and Precious Truths<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The Eternal Family: </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">A Plain and Precious Part of the Plan of Salvation</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><a href="https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/the-family-a-proclamation-to-the-world/the-family-a-proclamation-to-the-world?lang=eng" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The Family: A Proclamation to the World</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> teaches us that, “The family is central to the creator’s </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">plan for the eternal destiny of his children. . . . In the premortal realm, spirit sons and daughters </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">knew and worshiped God as their Eternal Father and accepted His plan by which His children </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">could obtain a physical body and gain earthly experience to progress toward perfection and </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">ultimately realize their divine destiny as heirs of eternal life.”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Why are families so important to members </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Life is all about family by divine design.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">We know this to be true and we embrace it. We celebrate it.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 1109px; overflow: hidden; width: 624px;"><img height="1109" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/j4p17nfttwR5hEBzeIDwqh50wDlQCvJNBvCc9DlCRI-vMgQe9CtpNKdhSmZS67feJTomVQJLwboqQB4PZq9eERiezBvH4l8jQfKpqKoEFn5Zjn6KUVi1BJd4l6WsnQ2DzO5B5Aiw" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="624" /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">“In 1995, President Gordon B. Hinckley reiterated the doctrine of The Church of Jesus Christ </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">of Latter-day Saints concerning eternal marriages and families when he taught in the proclamation </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">that the divine plan of happiness enables family relationships to be perpetuated beyond the grave. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Sacred ordinances and covenants available in holy temples make it possible for individuals to </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">return to the presence of God and for families to be united eternally.”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Families can be together forever!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">“As a member of the Seventy, Elder Merrill J. Bateman stated the following in summarizing the </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">familial nature of the Father’s plan: The creation of the earth, the fall of Adam, and the atonement </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">of Christ are essential elements or pillars in the Father’s plan for the progression and </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">development of his children—both as individuals and as families. . . . These three doctrinal </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">pillars of the plan of salvation are intimately involved in the creation of new eternal families and </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">their extension into the eternities.”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">There is a plan in this life. It’s for you to return to your Father in Heaven!</span></p><p><b id="docs-internal-guid-15f9aa20-7fff-9d01-f1ef-12d8008467e5" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">To learn more about the great plan of redemption read</span><a href="https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/bofm/alma/12?lang=eng" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Alma chapter 12</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> or learn more about the</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> eternal nature of families visit</span><a href="https://www.comeuntochrist.org/beliefs/family" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">https://www.comeuntochrist.org/beliefs/family</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 832px; overflow: hidden; width: 624px;"><img height="832" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/scwcKu8pFXklNsfhZh59gPgQbvTepJMtpsHZ974MAKM-pt-zMD-MEJGmegMTJewHOyEBHkUjQRHklIG091Uwhp4gFWa3Rm2BEx9CmEngAQFlnwdgrre5EzUXzPUdLXHi1LKaGJS2" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="624" /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The quoted selections are from my textbook; </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Marriages and Families Proclamation Principles and Research Perspectives </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small; text-decoration-line: underline; white-space: pre;">Edited by Alan J. Hawkins David C. Dollahite Thomas W. Draper</span></p><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span></p><div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></div>Dunson Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16930999177651827403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7185115648911939022.post-17436709048117075572020-08-17T16:44:00.001-04:002020-09-05T17:58:06.464-04:00Equal Partnership <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Equal Partnership between Men and Women in Families</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">So, who’s in charge anyway? Well in marriage</span><a href="https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/the-family-a-proclamation-to-the-world/the-family-a-proclamation-to-the-world?lang=eng" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The Family: A Proclamation to the World</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">teaches us that, “By divine design, fathers are to preside over their families in love and </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">righteousness and are responsible to provide the necessities of life and protection for their</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> families. Mothers are primarily responsible for the nurture of their children. In these sacred </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">responsibilities, fathers and mothers are obligated to help one another as equal partners.”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 469px; overflow: hidden; width: 624px;"><img height="469" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/PIKgEV0nv_TfODsj8M1Mu7H9Q71A6Rbjz77Vxj7_mtslust0cp7PXQckF9ti1NTejd5FF3_yTqirWdtkjoQRI38fCX1CCtDZeEflmp14P5i9mLegG3p7ydo-Cd98YM0QPwvG8cBz" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="624" /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">I love this concept and believe that it is biblically sound. The Lord provided Adam a helpmeet</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> in Eden as stated in</span><a href="https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/ot/gen/2.18?lang=eng#p18" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Genesis 2:18</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">. “The significance of this phrase “help meet” is that the </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">woman is a creation who is a fitting and proper companion for Adam because she is like him</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> and corresponds to him. This concept is further solidified by the description of the creation of</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> woman as being formed from the rib of Adam—a rib being a metaphor for a person </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">corresponding to Adam. Modern prophets have taught that the creation of woman from the rib </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">of the man is to be taken figuratively.” More information can be found from</span><a href="https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/1994/01/i-have-a-question/what-does-it-mean-when-the-lord-said-he-would-create-for-adam-an-help-meet-for-him?lang=eng" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">the January </span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><a href="https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/1994/01/i-have-a-question/what-does-it-mean-when-the-lord-said-he-would-create-for-adam-an-help-meet-for-him?lang=eng" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">1994 Ensign article.</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-3d4a26b1-7fff-6615-5f60-2b1c17488e5e"></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">We are both import both men and women and women. We may not fit into a single mold. There are things</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> that we do that might not fall into what you think a man and woman stereotypically should do. I think that’s</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> ok. Men and women were made to complement each other.</span></p>Dunson Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16930999177651827403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7185115648911939022.post-60429502807278624022020-08-14T16:39:00.001-04:002020-09-05T18:00:10.476-04:00Happy Marriages <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 469px; overflow: hidden; width: 624px;"><img height="469" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/1BmEXHveABYOZ5LXYEX9GykzgVYgHoHByULpduUVVbHWoYsj_MsrJ8hrxklcYvmNGpmmHvHTqN_jmtLNUuCtDfW1v6S4-5EzGzb595Qw6b-LK7AyjEZs2m1HJiiOrO4zC3IZFwxZ" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="624" /></span></span></p><p><b id="docs-internal-guid-4f841095-7fff-6c1d-18d8-bf9b1a2be06d" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><a href="https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/the-family-a-proclamation-to-the-world/the-family-a-proclamation-to-the-world?lang=eng" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The Family: A Proclamation to the World</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> declares that “marriage between a man and a woman </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">is ordained of God”, and that “husband and wife have a solemn responsibility to love and care for</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> each other”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">How do we go about sharing that love for each other? I’ve only been married for 19 years so I feel</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> like our marriage is still at the beginning of our lifelong journey together. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Here are 5 Foundational Processes from the Family proclamation that helps strengthen our </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">marriages. I learned this from my textbook; </span><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Marriages and Families Proclamation Principles and</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> Research Perspectives Edited by Alan J. Hawkins David C. Dollahite Thomas W. Draper</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">·</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Foundational Process #1: Personal Commitment to the Marriage Covenant. marriage is a </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">purposeful, divinely created relationship, not merely a social custom, and that couples have </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">God-given covenant obligations to one another.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">·</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Foundational Process #2: Love and Friendship. The proclamation mentions the responsibility </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">to love and care before any other marital obligation or virtue. Christlike love is the lodestar virtue</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> in marriage—it lights the way and draws attention to other virtues couples may wish to foster in</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> their marriage.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">·</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Foundational Process #3: Positive Interaction Positive emotions toward one’s spouse are vital</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> to a healthy marriage.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">·</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Foundational Process #4: Accepting Influence from One’s Spouse. Elder Russell M. Nelson </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">taught, “Husbands and wives, learn to listen, and listen to learn from one another.”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">·</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Foundational Process #5: Respectfully Handle Differences and Solve Problems. Seventy, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Elder Joe J. Christensen taught a similar principle: “Any intelligent couple will have differences </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">of opinion. Our challenge is to be sure that we know how to resolve them. 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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">I’m from the South and I love a bowl of grits. Grits with butter. Grits with cheese. Grits with sugar. Shrimp and grits. I like every kind I have tried. What does that have to do with my parenting class? Well the topic I wanted to talk to you about today is called grit and that got me a little bit hungry and homesick.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">“One researcher defines it as “a combination of passion and perseverance in the pursuit of a long-term goal” (see story of Angela Duckworth in Wall Street Journal, May 3, 2016, and cited in "The Virtue of Hard Things," by Emily Esfahani Smith). She offers a few examples: a cartoonist who submitted some 2,000 drawings to the New Yorker magazine before one was finally accepted; a below-average high school English student who became a best-selling novelist; a Super Bowl quarterback who, after a disappointing first semester in college, wanted to quit and come home, but his strong but loving father told him, “You can quit. … But you can’t come home because I’m not going to live with a quitter” (see Smith, "Hard Things").<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">According to this research, grit is a better predictor of success than innate ability — and ability does not make a person more likely to have grit. In fact, the research found that the higher a student’s test scores, the less gritty the student tended to be (see Smith's, "The Virtue of Hard Things"). As any teacher or parent can tell you, the child who has to work harder usually gets further ahead in the long run.”</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"> (Deseret News, 2017)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Grit is an internal drive to keep pushing through tasks. It is not determined by natural ability. Students who have grit work hard and do things that are hard or uncomfortable. They have a growth mindset. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">We have to do hard things. In 2 Nephi 2:11 it says, “For it must needs be, that there is an opposition in all things.” </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">(“2 Nephi 2,” n.d.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">I have a child who is naturally talented but does not try hard at all in school. He receives A's and B's but receives bad marks on his report cards. He doesn't work up to his fullest potential. If he’s not interested then he doesn’t try. He does not naturally display grit. He has said, "Mom I don't like to do hard things." I have another child who struggles and studies for hours. She makes A's and B's on her report card. She receives praise on her report card. Teachers can see that she tries and see that grit. She says, "Mom if I work hard, I think I can do it. " This child naturally displays grit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">“There are a lot of reasons some people may have extra difficulty persevering: lack of resources, lack of family or group support, or some other condition that makes learning harder. In a study for educators entitled “Promoting Grit, Tenacity, and Perseverance—Critical Factors for Success in the 21st Century,” the U.S. Department of Education identifies these critical factors for developing perseverance: A growth mindset. Effort. Strategies and Tactics.”</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"> (“Self-Reliance Principle 9: Persevere,” n.d.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";"> “Sometimes we might feel like salmon swimming upstream. It can be discouraging. And to stop trying is to be swept away by the current. But as President Thomas S. Monson said: Recovering from failure requires us to be honest with ourselves. We have to ask ourselves “What did I do wrong?” no matter how unfairly we think we were treated or how far out of our control the circumstances were. We recover from mistakes when we develop the discipline to hold ourselves accountable.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">We also develop perseverance when we learn to look at the big picture. The reason those salmon keep pushing against the current is that they know a safe place to spawn is ahead. Our desire to progress on this earth should be equally strong because we know that at the end of the currents and setbacks is the embrace of our Heavenly Father. He has given us the Holy Ghost to comfort and guide us. As we pray to develop these skills and as we follow a plan of action, God will bless us in our efforts to become more like Him.” </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">(“Self-Reliance Principle 9: Persevere,” n.d.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">As parents, we want to teach and prepare our children for the real world. Grit is also known as perseverance. This is a lifelong self-reliance skill. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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2 Nephi 2. (n.d.). Retrieved July 18, 2020, from <a href="https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/2.11?lang=eng#p11#11" style="color: #954f72;">https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/2.11?lang=eng#p11#11</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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Deseret News. (2017, March 4). Music and the Spoken Word: Developing grit. Retrieved from https://www.deseret.com/2017/3/4/20607473/music-and-the-spoken-word-developing-grit<o:p></o:p></div>
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Self-Reliance Principle 9: Persevere. (n.d.). Retrieved July 18, 2020, from https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/topics/pef-self-reliance/live/persevere?lang=eng<o:p></o:p></div>
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Markham Ph.D. (2015, June 5). 12 Ways to Raise a Competent, Confident Child with Grit. Retrieved from https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/peaceful-parents-happy-kids/201506/12-ways-raise-competent-confident-child-grit<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Yes, that title is there for attention. No I don’t want to talk to you about sex. It’s an uncomfortable subject. But it’s one we need to talk about with our children. If we don’t talk to our children about sex their friends will or even worse they’ll look it up on the internet. “It is not just a talk about sexuality; it’s a conversation about our God-given feelings and our aspirations of what we can become as families.”</span> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">(“How to Teach Children about Sexual Intimacy - Church News and Events,” 2015)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">“It’s important to start talking about it. You want to be sure your child is getting the facts and not getting information that isn’t appropriate or is misguided-whether from other kids or media. And if you are not talking about it, you are missing the invaluable opportunity to build a closer relationship with your child.”</span> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">(Luff, 2004, p. 336)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">“The Lord’s standard regarding sexual purity is clear and unchanging.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">The prophet Alma taught that sexual sins are more serious than any other sins except murder or denying the Holy Ghost (see Alma 39:5).”</span> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">(“Sexual Purity,” 2011)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Children are constantly receiving messages about sex. Our homes should be a safe place where they can learn the truth about this sacred subject. Did you note I wrote children not teens? The age that a child is exposed to sexual images is getting younger and younger. It would be wise to have an ongoing dialog with all of our children about the sacred nature and purpose of their bodies as is appropriate by age. (“How to Teach Children about Sexual Intimacy - Church News and Events,” 2015)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Rather than allowing the media to teach children what is appropriate, parents can start teaching about bodies being blessings from Heavenly Father. From there, parents can teach in more detail according to the direction of the Spirit and their family’s needs. Rather than waiting for children to learn at school or other outside influences, parents can broach the topic at home, in a positive atmosphere.”</span> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">(“How to Teach Children about Sexual Intimacy - Church News and Events,” 2015)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">“There are things you can do that are age appropriate along the way so children are inoculated and prepared rather than just reacting to things they see in the media or hear from friends,” said Brother Gibbons. “When you proactively prepare them, you set the stage for them to be able to handle those instances when they inevitably encounter it.”</span> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">(“How to Teach Children about Sexual Intimacy - Church News and Events,” 2015)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Sexuality and sex education start at birth. How a child is held as an infant translates to the adult need for affection, comfort, and soothing…How a parent feels about their own body and sex will impact the nonverbal messages they convey as well as how they approach the topic with their child. Parents' ability to talk comfortably about sex is usually dependent upon how they learned about sex and their relational and cultural/religious morals and values about it.”</span> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">(Scheel Ph.D., L.C.S.W., CEDS, 2019)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Parents often project their own discomfort, fears, shame, on to their child. So, if the parent is uncomfortable they assume that their child is also. Sometimes because the parent is uncomfortable the child becomes uncomfortable in response to the parent’s uneasiness. If there is no communication about sex in the household it is reasonable for the child to grow up feeling that something must be wrong or bad about the subject.”</span> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">(Scheel Ph.D., L.C.S.W., CEDS, 2019)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Whatever your hesitations or fears, it is vital that you discuss sexual intimacy with your children on an ongoing basis,” the lesson states. “Children and teenagers are regularly bombarded with damaging ideas about sex, and you have the opportunity to help them create a positive, gospel-driven understanding of sexual intimacy.”</span> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">(“How to Teach Children about Sexual Intimacy - Church News and Events,” 2015)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">The church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has developed several resources that can help you get started. Here’s a link to a quick video: </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: windowtext; letter-spacing: 0.75pt; text-decoration-line: none;"><a href="https://youtu.be/lpR6dxET0fE" style="color: #954f72;" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/lpR6dxET0fE</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">This is an important topic and we as parents cannot pass this off to teachers or the schools. We must begin in the homes. Put in the time. Do your research and just begin an honest and open dialogue with your child. Your child will then know you are a person that they can turn to when they have questions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">How to Teach Children about Sexual Intimacy - Church News and Events. (2015, March 16). Retrieved from <a href="https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/church/news/how-to-teach-children-about-sexual-intimacy?lang=eng" style="color: #954f72;">https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/church/news/how-to-teach-children-about-sexual-intimacy?lang=eng</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Luff, T. (2004). Talking to Your Kids about Sex: From Toddlers to Preteens. Family Relations, 53(3), 336. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0022-2445.2004.0bkrev4.x<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Scheel Ph.D., L.C.S.W., CEDS. (2019, January 2). Talking About Sex with Your Children: Who Is Uncomfortable? Retrieved July 18, 2020, from https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/sex-is-language/201901/talking-about-sex-your-children-who-is-uncomfortable<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sexual Purity. (2011). Retrieved July 19, 2020, from https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/for-the-strength-of-youth/sexual-purity?lang=eng<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">As a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, I did not realize that the Church had a position on parenting and anger. I am a convert to the church and the one concern that my mother had when I had children is that I would have “wild Mormon kids”. I asked her what she was talking about and she said you know the one where the mother is sheepishly asking her child to do something and the child either yells back or ignores her altogether. That is one extreme of parenting.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">In contrast, you’ve heard the old adage, “spare the rod and spoil the child”. Doesn’t that mean that you should beat your kids? I mean it’s in the Bible, right? Let’s take a look at what’s actually in the bible. In Proverbs 13:24 it says, “He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.” (“Proverbs 13,” n.d.) I’m not going to lie even after reading this I was still a bit confused.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">So I dug a bit deeper and stumbled upon a great article from the Chicago Tribune entitled” Spare the rod, spoil the child' isn't biblical” written by Guida C. Eldorado. Ok so someone wrote an article big whop who is she to say this isn’t what the Bible meant. Guida has a Masters in Social Work and is a licensed clinical social worker in Elmhurst, IL. She has also taught Sunday school for a number of years. Here is the <a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2005-03-13-0503120312-story.html" style="color: #954f72;">link</a> to her article. In summary, it says that the Proverb is talking about guiding our children like a shepherd does its sheep. Not Beating our children. “The sheep were not beaten with the rod. "Sparing the rod" in that sense means that a parent must guide his or her child and teach the child right from wrong.” (Eldorado, 2018)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Our Church is led by living Apostles and Prophets so I could look to see what they advise as well. Gordon B Hinckley said, “In terms of physical abuse, I have never accepted the principle of “spare the rod and spoil the child.” I will be forever grateful for a father who never laid a hand in anger upon his children. Somehow he had the wonderful talent to let them know what was expected of them and to give them encouragement in achieving it.” (“Save the Children,” 1994)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">The David O McKay library website has a section dedicated to spanking. "Use no lash and no violence, but . . . approach them with reason, with persuasion and love unfeigned. . . You can't do it any other way. You can't do it by unkindness; you cannot do it by driving. . . . You can't force your boys, nor your girls into heaven. You may force them to hell, by using harsh means in the effort to make them good, when you yourselves are not as good as you should be. The man that will be angry at his boy, and try to correct him while he is in anger, is in the greatest fault. You can only correct your children by love, in kindness, by love unfeigned, by persuasion, and reason" (“Spanking | BYU McKay School of Education,” 2018)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> I also found this gem "Above all else, children need to know and feel they are loved, wanted, and appreciated. They need to be assured often of that." (“Spanking | BYU McKay School of Education,” 2018)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">I found another article from Deseret News quoting Orson Scott Card. “Spare the rod and spoil the child" was the old adage, drawn from the book of Proverbs. Some have taken it literally, as divine sanction for beating children with sticks. Slightly modernized, here's what the proverb actually says: "He that spares his rod hates his son: but he that loves him chastens him betimes" (Proverbs 13:24). The point is not that children need beating, but rather that they need their parents — their fathers in particular — to let them know what is and is not permissible. This is a grave responsibility of all people, to civilize their children. It's good that we have tossed the "rod" of brutality away — but too many have tossed out the "chastening" as well.” (Sep. 30, 2010Best of LDS Blogs, byDeseret News, 2016)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">In the church, we often focus on what you should do rather than what you should do. Should you parent in anger? Probably not. Is it going to happen sometimes? Yeah, probably.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">We should use Doctrine and Covenants 121: 41-46 as a guide of what we should do in parenting.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> “No power or influence can or ought to be maintained by virtue of {<b>Parenting</b>}, only by persuasion, by long-suffering, by gentleness and meekness, and by love unfeigned;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Reproving betimes with sharpness, when moved upon by the Holy Ghost; and then showing forth afterwards an increase of love toward him whom thou hast reproved, lest he esteem thee to be his enemy;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Let thy bowels also be full of charity towards all men, and to the household of faith, and let virtue garnish thy thoughts unceasingly; then shall thy confidence wax strong in the presence of God; and the doctrine of the priesthood shall distil upon thy soul as the dews from heaven.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Holy Ghost shall be thy constant companion, and thy scepter an unchanging scepter of righteousness and truth; and thy dominion shall be an everlasting dominion, and without compulsory means it shall flow unto thee forever and ever. “<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Proverbs 13. (n.d.). Retrieved July 18, 2020, from <a href="https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/ot/prov/13?lang=eng" style="color: #954f72;">https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/ot/prov/13?lang=eng</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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Eldorado, G. C. (2018, August 25). `Spare the rod, spoil the child’ isn’t biblical. Retrieved July 18, 2020, from <a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2005-03-13-0503120312-story.html" style="color: #954f72;">https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2005-03-13-0503120312-story.html</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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Save the Children. (1994, October). Retrieved from <a href="https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/1994/10/save-the-children?lang=eng" style="color: #954f72;">https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/1994/10/save-the-children?lang=eng</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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Sep. 30, 2010Best of LDS Blogs, byDeseret News. (2016, June 16). Orson Scott Card: Spare rod, but not the iron one. Retrieved from <a href="https://www.ldsliving.com/Orson-Scott-Card-Spare-rod-but-not-the-iron-one/s/62286" style="color: #954f72;">https://www.ldsliving.com/Orson-Scott-Card-Spare-rod-but-not-the-iron-one/s/62286</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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Dunson Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16930999177651827403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7185115648911939022.post-54220467072142064332020-07-18T15:41:00.001-04:002020-07-18T15:41:30.854-04:00School Blog<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I haven't posted in forever. Let's see, I live in Tbilisi Georgia underneath Russia. I now have 5 beautiful children. I finished the Church's pathway program and am now finishing my last year of BYU-I online. For a class assignment, I have been tasked with making a blog with some helpful information about parenting that I have learned this past semester. I thought I would post it here since I already have a blog that captures my parenting adventures. Well, a few adventures anyways. What can I say I'm a busy Mom?!<br />
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Dunson Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16930999177651827403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7185115648911939022.post-66238440168052097532015-10-10T08:52:00.001-04:002015-10-10T08:56:56.943-04:00Alexis September Field Trip- Challenge Land<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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In September I got the chance to accompany Alexis on her class field trip to Challenge Land. Challengeland (Kalandpálya) offers several zip-lines, from short and low, indented for kids to higher and more adventures rides, designed for adults. This huge playground is located in the Buda Hills. Visitors can zip through the woods, climb the climbing wall, explore a large underground labyrinth or go on a canopy walk. Your adventure begins with gear outfitting (included in the price) and a climbing course.<br />
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Dunson Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16930999177651827403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7185115648911939022.post-58158052316890236562015-10-10T08:33:00.000-04:002015-10-10T08:33:17.218-04:00Happy Fall Y'all!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I really love fall. The cooler temperatures are a relief from the hot summer son. It got hot this summer in Budapest. The colors of the leaves are beautiful. The golden greens, rustic reds, and vibrant oranges abound. And just maybe because it means my birthday is around the corner.</div>
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Berries that I found along the side of the road on a walk one day</div>
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I had the opportunity to tag along on David's field trip to the Vasarely Museum. He's been studying Geometry in school so it was nice that they also made the connection with shapes in art.</div>
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Is it a gem or is it a tunnel? I can see both.</div>
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Established by Victor Vasarely in 1987, the Vasarely Museum of the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest is the public institution that gives perhaps the most comprehensive overview of Victor Vasarely’s oeuvre.</div>
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I had the opportunity to go on a trip to Visegrád, Hungary with some ladies. We visited the castle It was so beautiful. We visited the Castle. The Citadel part of the fortress is perched high on the top of the hill underneath it lies the Lower Castle. You can see the Citadel from the road. I look forward to another day trip to explore that part of the Palace.</div>
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Due to its favourable location with the Danube and the rocky hills Visegrád played important strategic role in the lives of the Celts, Avars, Romans then in that of the Hungarians. The Romans built a fortress here during the reign of Constantine the Great. </div>
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loves sledding. Jacob is now the only kid at home during the day. I love
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also love getting some sunshine in during the winter. We call it sun points. We
try and let the sun touch us and then yell, “sun points!” It’s our silly little
game but these are the little things that are special. </span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: large;">It was so
much harder in Moscow. We lived right across the street from the childcare
center. He would watch all of the other kids playing and want to join in. Now
we have <i>Mommy School</i> at home, just
the two of us. I am really going to miss this time. Thinking back our time in
Moscow was special too. It’s not every day that you get to be a teacher in your
son’s class. Jacob is the last little Dunson and I find that I enjoy my time so much
more with him. I wish I had this patience and understanding when our other
children were younger. I guess that’s a benefit of time and maturity. Well...I don't think it's too late.</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: large;"> My oldest is only ten :)</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: large;">So spending
most of my life in the South I still get excited when I see snow! So here it is
folks. Snow!</span><span style="font-size: 26pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Dunson
girls are crazy about the movie Frozen. I have to admit it is a pretty good
movie. Grandma sent us some supplies to make our own Olaf the snowman. Grandma
instructed the kids via skype. We were up an hour past bedtime. It was a fun
family activity!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Dunson Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16930999177651827403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7185115648911939022.post-68514242502381324342015-02-01T17:34:00.000-05:002015-02-01T17:34:59.681-05:00Pinewood Derby<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Today was the Pinewood Derby. Mike and David had worked on his car for weeks. It was a good father son bonding opportunity or so I am told. It was “boys only” in the garage. David had the idea for the design and really wanted to add his Nerf bullets to the car.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Proud father and son. Just finished the weigh in.</span></td></tr>
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Dunson Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16930999177651827403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7185115648911939022.post-53799295694400736922015-02-01T17:03:00.003-05:002015-02-01T19:51:39.498-05:00Unpacking Helper<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Oh Happy Day! When we received our household goods we were so excited. We had been without our stuff for two months. The rest of the kids were at school. Jacob was my "helper". He was so happy to see things from our Russia house here in Budapest.</span></div>
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Dunson Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16930999177651827403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7185115648911939022.post-75543790488945613282015-01-05T16:47:00.000-05:002015-02-01T19:52:58.669-05:00Back to normal<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: large;">The holidays are over and everyone is back to work and school at the Dunson. I love my husband and kids but I can only stand for our family to be in "holiday mode" for so long. I do well with routine, Not strict routine , just routine. We tidied the house and then our groceries were delivered from TESCO. It cost 499ft but there was a coupon for 500ft . Yay for free delivery. The man even carried the stuff up my steps on the 2nd level where the kitchen is! Ok back to routine. Jacob really loved his preschool and daycare center in Moscow. He misses his teachers and his friends. I don't think I'll put him in a school here before kindergarten. We'll do mommy school again. I am a preschool teacher after all. When we finished with our school work Jacob begged me to take him outside. I told him it was too cold. He just stared out the window. I gave in. So glad I did!</span><br />
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