Not an official website of the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. please please please please dont pull us teachers from Primary for pie or talking. How could I forget? document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Your email address will not be published. Were here to help! But I see where you are coming from. And the Uchtdorf talk on grace from last conference and his talk on the flowers might be good ones. The division of labor between the holidays helped to alleviate some of the awkwardness of the women = mothers mindset that we face in the US. I guess mothers also die, just like plants, but not usually at our own hands. I still dont understand it, which is probably why Im still very nervous about having kids. I also have plenty of friends who are single sisters and they mourn growing older and menopause because they wont be able to have the children they want to hold and love. My grandmother is my ideal of both a woman and a mother, but she was married to an alcoholic so I understand if she is not the ideal for others. Ere the sun goes down. and read for the dayLOL, isnt that a nice dream?? Avoid speaking of angel mothers. The men work. Oh, great. On the road this week I attend Mother's day services with the fourth ward in St George Utah. All my daily tasks fulfilling, Most threads die a natural death. The perfect sacrament meeting talk? Ere the sun goes down: Did they not have mothers? Over the years, Ive heard some very good Mothers Day talks, but I have also heard some that were cringe-worthy. "I am a sociopathic perverted mess emotionally and mentally thanks to the influence of my insane codependent mother.'". My Mother will one day reach the godstage with my Father and will have there own planet. It hasnt yet. . She told us that as a girl, she would sit in her room crying, with big welts on the back of her hands, but now that she was grown up, she understood why her mother did it, and she was grateful, by golly. So Im on for Mothers Day and have been assigned Julie Becks talk on the history of Relief Society as topic. Aiming for Heaven is again looking to the sinless for examples, not to an episode of Leave it to Beaver. Those who are solely focused on their own selfish desires? You can also subscribe without commenting. Beautiful. Not wordingthat well. Integrate how Jesus takes care of his mother's future well being while hanging on the cross with the scripture John 19:26-27. She used several stories from the NT about Christ & his mother Mary to illustrate principles that we can all use to improve our relationships with others. Our current Bishop decided not to do anything for mothers day. He emphasized there is no one perfect way to be a mother and that every situation is different. The bad ones tend to deal withthe big generalities, praisingmotherhood without even pausing to define whether we are speaking of women who have given birth, or womanhood in general. Flowers were also given to anyone who wanted to wear one in honour of their mothers. Print out the short questionnaires included in the printable and distribute them to the mothers in your ward a few weeks before Mother's Day. It was a powerful meeting and very real. He invites mothers to count the debits and credits in your role as a mother. President Hinckley then goes through a number of important gospel teachings mothers should focus on. It isn't in every country so I don't know why it has to be in just a few. The rest of us mortals should stick with real. Every year someone has to pick up the flowers for my ward. Mother's Day became the hardest day of the year for me. My husband told me to stop focusing on myself and think about who mothered me instead. Support Epic Family Fun! Even though Mothers Day is now a reasonably happy day for me personally, I still find that my mind is focused on how other women in my ward might be experiencing it. Id also like a break from a poem in the EFMormons which says that no painting, no book, no song penned by a mother could be as great as a worSocrates by their children in the future, so spending your time raising the next generation is the greatest thing you can do. We can only celebrate the nonentity because we are afraid of hurting those who are not being celebrated "today". I have some ideas of speaker topics but I thought I would start a thread for suggestions of topics, scriptures, conference talks, etc that would help make a great Sacrament Meeting that honors Motherhood while also keeping a focus on Christ. If my kids are with me on MD I go, but FD is just too painful. If you want to hear from real women who haveread scriptures andheld FHEand family prayer, but whose son is in jail or whose 16-year-old daughter is pregnant or whose husband has left her, then you should meet in the cultural hall. I haven't a clue about how to interact at times. Thanks for thinking of me, my youngest bishop son! Latter-day Saint Missionary Hospitalized After Stabbing in Colombia, A Slam Dunk of a Service Project: The NBA and Church of Jesus Christ Feed the Hungry, All Missionaries Accounted for in New Zealand After Devastating Cyclone, New Zealand Latter-day Saints Urged to Prepare for Cyclone, Latter-day Saint Artists Paints Uvalde Shooting Victims, Delivers Portraits to Families, Tender Advice from President Monson Trends on Instagram Reels, Church of Jesus Christ Releases Statement of Support After Earthquakes in Turkey, Syria, Try Faith: A 30-Day Challenge Shows How Four Young Vloggers Built Faith in Jesus. It appears that this phenomenon is growing and becoming even more common everywhere in the US church. And, even worse, we are also cutting them off from the grace and redemption that Jesus offers. I come to church to be fed spiritually, and sappy poems and stories are never ever going to measure up to the meat that scriptural examples can provide. Oh yes, Ive read the scriptures to be like Him, to be perfect. Again, its about building testimony and gaining faith. Re-reading my comment (101) it sounds very harsh even though that is not how I mean it to sound. May 2011 was the best mothers day sacrament mtg Ive ever attended. Great, and I was just asked to talk on Sunday, I guess I will be very careful. I miss her something terrible, and being at the grave-site really brought all of those emotions to the surface. When we speak of mothers as people who are incapable of gross sin, they know we are lying. We teach that you are basically good or even great (gods in embryo), that you are responsible for your actions and that you can actually make other people do what is right through prayer and works especially your children, that the sins you accumulate both those of commission and omission are entirely your fault, that Christ is not really in the middle of the picture until you really screw up and commit something unforgiveable like adultery and that you need to try harder to keep every one of those commandments or you are going to lose your reward of having a planet & of having eternal sex , and the celestial DFAC will snatch your children from you and destroy your perfect family sprouting from the buried nuts of polygamy where mother valently hoisted the impossible burdens. Great survey. A BIGTHANK YOU to Heather Mecham for compiling all the results from this survey. Come on. I too have wrestled with the infertility monster and MD was always a nightmare. Primary kids sang Im so glad when Mommy comes home refreshing change. When we value families so strongly we should celebrate the roles of motherhood and fatherhood. If they give out a plant that I can put in the ground, Ill be sad to miss that, though. It hurts. Have a variety of ages speak on ideas or what they've done to help their mothers and ways they've stayed close to their mothers. It was the first Mothers Day since she died. I would be totally okay if they did nothing for Mothers Day at church. Cannot load blog information at this time. I think Ill check myself in to a nice bed and breakfast. He also shares ways a mother can become the first line of defense against the wiles of the world., RELATED: 30 Inspiring LDS Quotes About Mothers & Motherhood. Let us also posit that, even if the average woman is more nurturing or righteous than the . She loved us unconditionally heart and soul. I'd had a challenging morning, but somehow, my 3-year-old-daughter was decked out and ready for church on time. It would just be nice to complete our idealism with a good dose of reality. So be kind to her. My wife spoke on Mothers Day (which I originally thought was a bad choice, because she herself appears to the outside world to be the perfect mother) about her own mother and some of the simple things her mother had done for her that made a big difference in her life and how grateful she was. It is as if we cannot celebrate anything because if we focus on single day to celebrate one person then we have decimated everyone else. (i.e. JUST kidding. Below, youll find an excerpt from each talk and a link to the full text. They can eat whatever they want, in fact. They really did. It was so honest and hopeful all at once. Get plenty HPs and Elders. Gospel Q&A: Can Satan Hear Our Prayers? In my nearly 40 years in the church that has borne true. Pres Hinckley and apparently Mark has it right. Crowd-sourcing request. Maybe. In partaking of the sacrament and making these commitments, Church members renew the covenant they made at baptism (see Mosiah 18:810; Doctrine and Covenants 20:37). Just after she became a beehive, her mother had an affair. Modal title . Wow! on Mothers Day and donate it to a womens shelter. more guilt and more controversy.). Sometime in the mid-1990s, I went to the ward library after sacrament meeting to obtain materials for teaching a lesson. But I realize others prefer plants. Because disciples can be wayward in their faith we should not celebrate Christmas because it causes too much pain in those who remain more faithful. One thing I would add is that somehow we need to stop telling LDS women that they need to do everything in 6 days and 90% income with smiles on their faces and do it better than their non-LDS peers. She was a wonderful example for motherhood, womanhood, and peoplehood. Thats the nicest thing anyone has ever said to me! We got a response from172 females and 51 males. You dont come, you dont get one. But arent mothers also sweet, like cookies? Mothers Day was open so I said ok, I will come up with something appropriate. Over 70 countries observe Mothers Day, but some of them still retain these spiritual roots whereas in the US its mostly a commercial holiday. I think its good to have something to air at! Fun Photos of Latter-day Saint Leaders in the Snow! I found out the hard way after a long list of them declined to give the talk. especially when there are clear re-phrasings and clarifications. Pertaining to gifts: #53 Im against handing out plants on Mothers Day. I issue a challenge to top this worst Mothers Day sacrament meeting talk. In honor of Earth Day, you could throw in the topic of Mother Nature also! Forgive me for not understanding the blessing part of it. Available Now: 2023 Temple Calendar. No, an inclusive talk will be about current and eternal womanhood, one part of which may including being a biological mother in mortal life. Some few are probably actively trying to avoid the gifts, trying hard to not remember the lack thats been rubbed in her face all day long. I believe he has mellowed and gained wisdom over the years and was a part of a later bishopric. As far as Jesus is concerned, he was sinless so is able to stand as an ideal. Especially since whoever asked him to speak didnt learn their lesson and he said the exact same talk a year later. At first I was wishing that I wasnt, but after thinking and praying about it for a few weeks and speaking with friends and family, Im rather excited about it. Im asking this out of genuine curiosity/responsibility for handing stuff out. The Puritans werent big on celebrations, so they dropped it when they colonized Massachussetts. I have an aversion to bringing my family's celebration intochurch and causing other women pain. I have not attending other churches that have mothers day services aimed at mothers. Why was she an ideal? Dont take us out of Primary to go eat Treats! Nothanks to my back problems got to fly non-stop from Atlanta to Seattle. ), Miriam his sister who obeyed her mother and stayed with him and suggested her mother be his nursemaid, and the daughter of Pharoah, who raised him. Since my husband gets to give And yeah, audience is important. What do you think when you see a used car lot with a sign like this: Honest Abes Used Cars! Questions and Answers about the Sacrament, Remember Jesus Christ during the Sacrament, The Restoration of the Sacrament (Part1: Loss and Christian Reformations), The Restoration of the Sacrament (Part2: A New and Ancient Covenant), Sharing Time: Be Grateful for the Sacrament, Viewpoint: The Sacred Ordinance of the Sacrament, Young Men, Teach about the Sacrament, Brother Beck Says. I have nine children, eight grown, am temple divorced and remarried to a nomo. I always had this huge chip on my shoulder about refusing the flowers because I wasnt a mom (I had kids later in life), but my own mother would force me to take it because it was a free flower. Well at least I know what not to talk about. LDS Hymn Arrangements. There are wrongs that need redressing A small gift for Mothers Day is fine, but if you give chocolate to a diabetic or a piece of pie to someone with gluten intolerance, what have you given? I know that traditionally it has been men and children who honor mothers. This past Mother's Day we arrived late to sacrament meeting due to a cobbling mishap in the morning. Can I suggest NOT sending the youth out hunting all women? Classic! Make sure you understand where that line is. Didnt we predict this? For myself and kindred too, Can anyone say overdone? Mothers Day was pure torture and the only time I ever serious entertain thoughts of staying home. This blog post is the result of my musing. Ere the sun goes down. I think it turned out great. Next, it is always very specific so as to not offend anyone. Set them up outside the chapel, or in the kitchen or sometime. So far, so good. So, just an FYI to the LDS people here Non-denominational Christian churches focus EVERY day (especially Sunday) on God/Jesus Christ Generally the take home message (this would apply to mothers day s well) is that we are human so we are sinners and if we accept Jesus Christ as our savior then we can hand him our trials (very difficult to do) but when we dont and we are struggling He still loves us. I dont know why that would be, unless people are just assuming we ache for something more to nurture. The primaries (100 of them? https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2014/04/wanted-hands-and-hearts-to-hasten-the-work?lang=eng. But one thing is for sure, Ill be drawing on much of this. The hard part for me is when I hear talks about angel mothers where I actually know whom they are talking about. 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(Although I love the song idea for the Primary #65) Marys life is always appropriate, Lucy Mack Smith, Hannah & Samuel, etc. What a nice gift for a Mom..hey, you guys have a great time!! Father's Day Talk in Sacrament Meeting June 21, 2009. But Ive also read this: 40 Behold, ye are little children and ye cannot bear all things now; ye must grow in grace and in the knowledge of the truth. Seriously, no one is going to be pleased. In Bishopric meeting this year, I quoted your little sister regarding plants. Gospel Q&A: How Can I Find and Foster Celestial Love? There are a number of other conference talks on the subject (righteous traditions, family traditions, etc.). Gospel Q&A: I Feel Guilty That I Cant Fast Because of Medical Reasons. And this is all in addition to the everyday problems like getting the bills paid and the laundry done. Actually..mother's day should be everyday. I would say that since Christ is supposed to be the express image of his Father that we do know quite a bit about the Father. He also discussed the importance of placing motherhood first in our lives but not allowing the pressures of motherhood to sap us of joy. The only thing I might try if I were in charge would be to put out pink, white, red carnations and safety pins and invite everyone in the ward to wear a carnation to honor their mother pink/red if shes living, white if shes passed away. She is buried in the same plot as my great-grandmother as well so it was nice to be able to be there with them again. The primary children sing and we are making a mothers day gift in primary. Do other Christian women struggle with church-going on this day? For those in Europe, is Mothers Day celebrated to the same awful-gut-wrenching extent? Sadly, though, it probably caused a lot of pain to the listeners. I am 70 years old and have never been a mother, but I had one. My best friend (unmarried, childless at 51) has been asked to speak. He suffered for the sins, sorrows, and pains of all people, providing remission of sins for those who repent and live the gospel (see 2Nephi 9:2123). Ere the sun goes down. Primary kids singing, oh, 12 songs, and then someone real standing up and talking about the incredible power of hope, even when we feel that we dont measure up, and the wonder of the atonement and Gods love for us. That said, I cant say I recall ever hearing a bad Mothers Day talk. Ive taken as the Ward Music Chair person and conductor to pick hymns and have a couple special musical numbers, but does anyone have any ideas for a small token we could pass out to the men? In the UK, my experience has been that sacrament has at least one talk and often a few. This is a tradition of man, and sometimes it is just a bad idea. Elder Perry uses personal stories and memories of his own mother to illustrate the importance of teaching the gospel inside the home. Elder Ballard lists three ways mothers can do that; first, is realizing joy comes in moments, second is to not overschedule children, and third, to find time to cultivate talents and interests. However, the restored gospel is true and is a steady guide for us in nagivating the oftimes foggy seas of life. It worked well in my ward, I think. Daughters of God Aleah Ingram May 3, 2021 Entertainment. I would also love all quotes, conf talks, songs be from women to reinforce the value/insight/talent women have. . At a certain point, their best has to be enough. Since my mom has unacknowledged mental health issues, this is my oldest sister and a lady in L.A. who I still keep in contact with. More importantly, which meeting do you thinkwould be more likely to provide meaningful support? The best MD talk I ever heard was given by my neighbor. XD. I've done this in past years but always enjoy the new ideas from the participants here As I plan our Mother's Day Sacrament Meeting, what have been your favorite talk topics for Mother's Day? Glad as I can be Just to be clear - I meant 'written/given' by women (aka musical number "O My Father" written by Eliza R Snow, conf talk by Reeve/Oscarson/Okazaki). iPhone. May your prayers be answered and your hopes and dreams become realities.. Since I believe he (the Father) and my Heavenly Mother are probably equals, Id say we know a lot about her as well! Every week they strive to prepare for that sacred ordinance with a broken heart and a contrite spirit (see 3Nephi 9:20). Check out our selection of LDS church programs for baptisms, church activities, and sacrament meetings. Mothers Day theme, is the spirit is trying to witness to us at what a dumb idea it is. Does this mean that finally..a talk could be about our Heavenly Mothers? You wouldnt give a talk in a single adult ward about the joys of scouting. I Know I would like Mothers Day more if they changed the official hymn of the day from Love at Home to this one (to be sung from the perspective of the mother): 1. They may have services on Holy Mother Mary but then again, she left her son behind in Jerusalem and didnt even notice she had forgotten him for quite some time before going back to look for him so not sure about her mothering skills ;)). I am understanding your POV. Its hard to please everyone. It seems sometimes that activity organizers believe somehow that no one will participate if not bribed by pizza, pop, potato chips or pie. What are we trying to create? Like many others, my wife and her mother have both always struggled with hearing sacrament meeting talks on Mothers Day. So how does tax exemption relate to churches, and especially churches that [], You are so much more than the worst thing youve everdone., http://www.lds.org/general-conference/2008/04/daughters-of-god?lang=eng, http://dandelionmama.wordpress.com/2012/05/08/this-this-is-what-i-believe/, Inside the UK's Mormon missionary bootcamp - BBC, Former mayor, LDS bishop gets prison for child sex abuse - Salt Lake Tribune, The anti-racist Mormon trying to teach his fellow LDS church members - NPR, Mormon Church fined over claim it hid $32bn of investments - BBC, Linda King Newell, Feminist Scholar of Mormon History, Dies at 82 - The New York Times. If you want to hear about angel mothers and perfect people, remain in the chapel. When He instituted the sacrament, Jesus Christ said, This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me. We speak about it nearly every Sunday. Said she, If you havent convinced your mother that you love her the other 364 days of the year, nothing you say on Mothers Day is worth a damn.. Now they never had fought, yet they did not fear death; and they did think more upon the liberty of their fathers than they did upon their . Seriously, it would be nice to have some idea. 3. Because school is out in June, Fathers get the bum end of the deal when it comes to recognition. Focus on womanhood and examples of strong women, not on a perfect homemaker mother. Thats the last thing a mother needs, responsibility for yet another living thing. I should clarify that my mother (and father) are wonderful and I have no complaints. 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