MOTHERHOOD

"About every true mother there is a sancity of martyrdom-
and when she is no more in the body, her children see her with
the ring of light around her head."

Godey's Lady's Book, 1867

THE ART OF DOMESTIC BLISS

.....in a time lacking in certainty and filled with anguish and despair, no woman should be shamefaced in attempting to give back to the world, through her work, a portion of it's lost heart. -Louise Bogan
“And there are my children!
My darling, precious children!
For their sakes I am continually constrained
to seek after an amended, a sanctified life;
what I want them to become
I must become myself”.

~ Elizabeth Prentiss, Stepping Heavenward

Sunday, March 28, 2010

Day 2 Cleansing The Temple




Family Activity:

Read Matt 21:12-18; Mark 11:12-19;Luke 19:45-48

Discussion:
Discuss Temple cleansing in our own lives. Purging,learning,receiving blessings (healing), praising (Math 21:12-16

How would you feel if you witnessed the healing in the temple?

Given Jesus' actions in the temple...how do you think he would react on a visit to your home? How might he cleanse it? As a family choose one way to purify your home this week.
Talk about how Jesus wants a house of order not chaos and that he wants the temple (and our Homes) to be a house of prayer.

Discuss how are bodies are a temple also. 1Cor 3:16, 6:18, 2 Cor 6:16 Decide on a bad habit to stop or a way to help our body be stronger and healthier.

Activity:

Choose a service project this week as a family. We are taking an Easter Lily to a widow in our church.The Easter Lily is a symbol of purity and light, and renewed life. Jesus came as a light in the darkness and a pure sacrifice. Through him all men can change at any point and return to him. His hand is ever reaching out after a lost sheep. He will never forsake us.

Read the First Easter Lily in the friend Magazine on LDS.org under magazines. It is in the April 1988 issue on page 20-21

Have children choose out of a bowl a name of a family member to be a secret pal to this week. Have them treat their pal like Jesus would this week.


Have a repentance box. Let people write down sins they are willing to forsake for the Savior, and put them in the box to be destroyed on Easter.This is to be anonymous, nobody reads them out loud.

Complete the " Easter Story in Eggs"

Number 12 plastic eggs 1-12 with a marker.
Fill each one with a scripture and the an item relating to the last week of Christs life. Open them at dinner and read them in order.

1 Three Dimes Matt 26:14-16

2 a piece of bread or cracker Math 26:26-28

3 A sacrament cup Matt 26:36-37,39,42,44

4 A string math 27:1-2

5 A piece of soap Math 27:22-24

6 Some purple fabric or felt Mark 15-16-19

7 A nail Luke 23: 26-27, 33

8 two sticks (casting lots) Luke 23:34

9 A small bag of rocks and soil Math 27: 50-51, 54

10 Strips of white cloth Luke 23: 50-53, Mathew 27:60

11 Spices ( anise seed , cinnamon, rosemary, tied in a little cloth with string Mark 16: 1-4

12 Leave this egg empty Mark 16: 5-6

Treat Make Homemade pretzels to represent our arms folded in prayer. "My House will be called a house of prayer"


Recipe

1 pkg yeast
1 1/2 cups hot water
1/3 brown sugar
5 cups of flour

Heat oven to 465

Boil 11/2 cups of water. Mix dry ingredients. Slowly add 1 1/2 cups of hot water to dry ingredients and stir. Add only enough to make a soft dough.On a lightly floured surface, kneed the dough for 5 minutes. Cover and let rise 10 minutes.

• Grease 2 cookie sheets. Take about 2 tablespoons of dough and roll it into a *snake.* Shape it into a pretzel and place on the cookie sheet. Let rise one more time for about 5 to 10 minutes.

• Bring to boil in a large pan 6 cups of water. Carefully lower each pretzel into the boiling water. Allow to boil for about 45 seconds. Lift the pretzel out and place on the cookie sheet again. After each pretzel has been boiled,sprinkle with salt and bake in the oven for 10 minutes.
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An Island of Security....A Mother at Home

Very largely does the wife hold in her hands, as a sacred trust, the happiness and the highest good of the hearts that nestle there. In the last analysis, home happiness depends on the wife.
  • Her spirit gives the home its atmosphere.
  • Her hands fashion its beauty.
  • Her heart makes its love.
And the end is so worthy, so noble, so divine, that no woman who has been called to be a wife, and has listened to the call, should consider any price too great to pay, to be . . .

the light,
the joy,
the blessing,
the inspiration,
of a home.

The woman who makes a sweet, beautiful home, filling it with love and prayer and purity, is doing something better than anything else her hands could find to do beneath the skies.

A true mother is one of the holiest secrets of home happiness.

God sends many beautiful things to this world,

many noble gifts;

but no blessing is richer than that which He bestows

in a mother

who has learned love's lessons well,

and has realized something of the meaning

of her sacred calling.










~ J. R. Miller, "Secrets of Happy Home Life, 1894" ~

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