Brittany was kind enough to share her insightful talk given at her daughter’s recent baptismal service. We have blogged about the connection between baptism and birth before but I love how she connected each element together in her thoughts. I am looking forward to my son’s baptism in a few weeks so this talk was […]
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Nothing is more important than physical birth and spiritual rebirth Elder Christofferson told us. Our mothers have given us the gift of birth and our first naming. Christ gave us the gift of rebirth through baptism and offered us His name. We may experience other rebirths in our journey upward, but none is more sacred than the rebirth our Heavenly Parents offer to us: a rebirth as kings and queens, priests and priestesses, and the sacred naming given only to those who have overcome the world.
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The instructor of my midwife assistant course started off one of our classes with this question, “What is it like to be born?” We discussed the different possibilities: it could be stressful, scary and even painful, right? Knowing that the baby can feel our emotion via hormonal responses it makes sense that they
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I love being in the Relief Society Presidency of our ward. The best part? Not being the President!! 😉 I am responsible for the Sunday meetings. I make sure the teachers have the help and support they need. On rare occasions it means I get to do a sudden impromptu lesson when a teacher is not
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My “baby” was baptized on Saturday by his 16 year old big brother. On Friday I remembered about a post my friend wrote for the blog about the baptism of her daughter and how it was as special as the day she was born. I had not experienced that with my oldest sons baptisms, but
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I recently attended two baptisms on the same day for two of my nephews. As I watched these two boys stand next to their fathers surrounded by water I thought of their first baptism when their place was next to their mother once again surrounded by water. A friend of mine pointed out that
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What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? 1 Corinthians 6:19 I have been pondering for some time now the symbolism of the temple and birth. In fact, I had been trying to write an essay for the book
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This is a guest post by my friend Heather B., a mother of four beautiful, talented, and wonderful children. 🙂 I have wanted to be a Mother for as long as I can remember. My first word was “baby,” and I was constantly pretending to be a “Mother” as I grew up. The births of my
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By Lani Axman Lately I’ve been pondering a lot on all of the things I need to teach my children before they grow up and leave the house (how to cook, how to sew, etc.). So, as I approached my scripture reading yesterday, I had the teaching of children in the forefront of my mind.
