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

Saturday, March 27, 2010

Day 1 Palm Sunday



"Rejoice greatly oh daughter of Zion;Shout, oh daughter of Jerusalem; behold,thy King cometh unto thee; he is just, and having salvation;lowly, and riding upon an ass,and upon a colt the foal of an ass. " (Zechariah 9:9)


Display some palm branches in a vase on the table.

Read : Matthew 21:1-11, Mark 11:1-11, Luke 19:28-48, John 12:12-36

Family Discussion:
The meaning of the palm branches to usher in the the Lord to Jerusalem.

The meaning of the word Hosanna!Give them a special handkerchief to use for Temple dedications Hosanna! Shout! And other spiritual times in their life.


How would our family show our Joy if Christ came to visit our Home today.

Sing:
Upon the cross of Calvary page 184 in LDS Hymnal
He is risen Page 199 in LDS Hymnal

Start week long display of pictures of the Holy Week, starting with the picture of Christ on the Donkey on Palm Sunday.Display in sequence as week unfolds.

Begin this Easter week with a love one another poster. Set it up with a pen and candy jar. Each time someone shares their love for someone on the board they take a candy.

Have family think of someone they can serve this week.

Have the Children perform a Triumphal Entry Skit.

Have each person in the family pray for another member of this family every day this week.

Make faux Palm leaves out of green paper. Line the table for dinner with them. Have each member of the family serve the dinner to one another.








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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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