Mtg. He had returned from his mission and married (as did I), and he was asked to give the main Mothers Day talk. This morning I decided to Google search Mothers Day LDS talks and came upon this article. I know my own mother dislikes being called a good mother because she feels so awful about how she raised us from her perspective. On the night before His Crucifixion, Jesus Christ met with His Apostles and instituted the sacrament (see Luke 22:1920). What are we trying to create? If youre already perfect, who needs it? 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. Enter your email address to follow BCC and receive new posts by email. I was dreading it, but I was rescued by my sister coming to town for the next 3 days yayyyy. She was not worthy of any review from me. I think this can be especially true for women who feel theyre just holding on. I cant quite get them right and they would certainly be expunged by the moderators anyway. After the explanation, both seemed excited and accepted the challenge willingly. iPad. Thank you. Can anyone say overdone? (If you want to see an example, search mormon tax exemption on Twitter.) Ours, like most, has its strengths and its weaknesses. With that in mind, there are great ideas in this discussion thread of ways to do exactly that. :( Everyone can just disregard parts that may sound harshor disregard the comment altogether I reckon. I would love to avoid Mothers Day meetings, just because they are usually tedious, but I love to go for the sake of seeing my kids sing. Saw the survey and didnt reply, but one suggestion-Please have enough for EVERY female in the ward or branch. May the blessings of heaven rest upon you. Might spark some interesting conversations. Latter-day Saints in a contemporary congregation partake of the sacrament. So far, so good. Perhaps the reason so many women have an aversion to an all Sacrament Mtg. Mothers Day gifts at church should be like free t-shirt day at the baseball game. So I will be going to church on Sunday, even though I never go to church, so I can remember my mother, who was never a Mormon. 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. Were here to help! Drunk as he could be. I like the idea of a simple gift for those in attendance. Geesh! So this year we are setting up tables and chairs in the gym, hauling in meat and cheese and veggies and chocolate, and the Bishop will talk for five minutes and then we will let everybody socialize while I play the tuba for the entire primary. Yet, we have a tendency to go to extremes, particularly culturally, forgetting that we are worshiping God, and that we are not God nor expected to be God in this, our mortal state. Julie B. Beck reminds women what it means to be a mother who knows listing a number of attributes, including the principles of bearing children, honoring sacred covenants, nurturing others, doing less, teaching, and leading. Elder Perry uses personal stories and memories of his own mother to illustrate the importance of teaching the gospel inside the home. Measure your words with that assumption in mind. It defines our very identity, our divine stature and nature, and the unique traits our Father gave us.. That feels a little thin still, so Im glad this post exists. Today the sacrament is an ordinance in which Church members partake of bread and water in remembrance of Jesus Christs atoning sacrifice. Love your mother, my young sisters. It hasnt yet. This blog post is the result of my musing. It seemed to strike just the right tone. What does that say about the role of motherhood? I asked a mother and daughter to sing the main lines, and then I had the . I dont want to hear Sister Becks controversial mothers who know talk, or president bensons talk come home talk. They cannot eat it, and in fact just having the stuff around is a serious temptation to do so. A friend once proposed a thought experiment. When we value families so strongly we should celebrate the roles of motherhood and fatherhood. My oldest, the musical and noisy one, composed parodies of many favorite primary songs about a decade ago when she was under the tyranny of those zealous but misguided young mothers. They are there, you just have to do a little digging. #46 That is an awesome idea for your talk. This is the same reason we do not have missionary farewells any longer. Required fields are marked *. Gospel Q&A: I Feel Guilty That I Cant Fast Because of Medical Reasons. Crowd-sourcing request. to hear my little kids sing and for my older kids to pass out a flower. Many said not to assign "mother" or "female" focused messages in sacrament meeting, others said to keep your efforts simple as long as it is sincere. Up til now, I have endured going because I thought I had to. By Great post, Mark! No one tries to probe for subliminal meaning in the choice of Fat Boys. Some were difficult for metotell without choking up. Im asking this out of genuine curiosity/responsibility for handing stuff out. Aleah served a mission in California and loves baking, Lang Leav poetry, Gaynor Minden pointe shoes, and Bollywood movies. Its hard to please everyone. After church we can give dear old dad a cookie in a baggie and a kick in the pants, call it good for another year, and send him home. I do think a lot of Mormon women enjoy talks that validate their efforts at motherhood, and I think some of these talks get interpreted as angel mother talks when theyre really not. President Hinckley directly addresses mothers in this talk, commending them for the wonderful thing they have done by becoming mothers, but offering insights on their greatest challenge: to be able to answer the question How well have my children done? with happiness. Diversity and Unity in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Environmental Stewardship and Conservation, Joseph Smiths Teachings about Priesthood, Temple, and Women, Peace and Violence among 19th-Century Latter-day Saints, The Manifesto and the End of Plural Marriage, Translation and Historicity of the Book of Abraham. Mother's Day became the hardest day of the year for me. Every week they strive to prepare for that sacred ordinance with a broken heart and a contrite spirit (see 3Nephi 9:20). Products; . Something else for me to kill.. I wish that EVERY ward had a FD talk on what unrighteousness dominion is, and why it should be the job of every priesthood holder and father to raise sons who understand it and daughters who wont stand for it. Show me a sinless mother and she can be my ideal too. So I would personally prefer if they didnt do those honor-mothers meetings. Maybe. Gospel Q&A: How Can I Find and Foster Celestial Love? 3rd hour had all of the PRI & YW leaders including the YW themselves in RS with homemade lemon cakes from the teacher. Last year, I did an arrangement of "I Often Go Walking" for the Primary children and our ward choir to perform together. It would be much easier for me to hear mothers day talks if they were real instead of ideal, though Id prefer a good sermon on Christ, instead. I meant an ideal not an idea! The Spirits constant companionship is one of the greatest gifts of mortality. I am understanding your POV. This is what I need for . I have had a lot of thoughts about Father's Day because my father passed away on May 23 about a month ago. It is Mother's Day and yet the day is supposed to about everything about women EXCEPT being a mother. rockpond Latter-day Saint Life. . It hurts. The main message I gathered from reviewing this survey is, keep it simple, dont try tohave specific female messages during the meetings, and then serve a fun refreshment in the third hourjust because. There are diabetic men, arent there? It was designed with ward choirs and Sacrament Meeting musical numbers in mind. Probably low on the most desired list, but very creative and I will always remember that with a smile. I am actually traveling with my mother and other members of the family this weekend and showed her this in church to get a laugh. It will easily demonstrate the weaknesses in the position: The logic is faulty. But as for now no praise deserved but the praze to the heavenly Father. Please Please Please! Ere the sun goes down, I didnt enjoy Mothers Day during my years of infertility, but Ive been surprised that I enjoy it even less now that I have children. . That being said, my ward will be nice and quiet next Sunday, one of the joys of the YSA wards. I can only pray no one will take offense, as I certainly never mean any offense. But in Argentina, where Mothers Day is in October, they also tended to recognize International Womens Day (March 8) even in church (in addition to a wide variety of other holidays Childrens Day, Grandparents Day, etc.). Worst Moms Day talk ever: when we (and most of our friends) were newlyweds, one of our friends (a guy) was asked to give the big glory of motherhood talk. Classic! A BIGTHANK YOU to Heather Mecham for compiling all the results from this survey. This was very informative and interesting. Honestly, considering how touchy this subject is (women w/out kids, abusive moms, separated/divorced men who don't want to be, moms who've passed, etc), I'd focus on Womanhood. lesson about prayer. iPhone. Doesn't it seem strange in a religion that supposedly is so family focused that we have people who ignore the cries of many of the women in church who want to be mothers and can't be or who sorrow over children who are not making good eternal choices? On the other hand, women tended to speak about motherhood as the most emotionally-exhausting and time-consuming chore imaginable. I have heard good talks and bad talks, and really dislike the sacralizing of the universal and perfectly average activity of mothering. And the Uchtdorf talk on grace from last conference and his talk on the flowers might be good ones. I spoke one Mothers Day about Eve and Mary, and thought it was a good talk and well-received. Sacrament meeting is the term for a regular Latter-day Saint worship service, usually held each week on Sunday, where the sacrament (similar to communion) is offered to the members of the Church. A nod to moms but no pedestal worshiping. Based on the comments it seems to be prevalent everywhere in the US church. I think this is one of the most confusing topics for men in the church. I dont think it would occur to anyone to give a man a plant for Fathers Day *, but its very common to give women plants for Mothers Day. After living with me for almost 17 years, hed better get it right! THAT is what non-denominational Christian churches do :). Less than nothing because the message of such a gift is that the person is not important. What do you think should be handed out for Mothers Day? It seems like awareness and knowing your audience as mentioned before, is half the battle. Is it callender time, number of posts, how irritated the host is with the comments! Mother's Day: My talk by Kaimi Wenger May 5, 2009 23 Comments It's hard to strike the right balance, between affirming Moms who really need to be told that they made a good decision; and letting others (especially women) know that they're okay, too. Below, youll find an excerpt from each talk and a link to the full text. 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. " Cogito! 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? But I still think the Dove bars our bishop chooses rock the holiday. When we speak of mothers as people who are incapable of gross sin, they know we are lying. In the spirit of the quib in #21 we should just cancel these commercial holidays. I do think it is easy to understand my point and I appreciate it when others understand my position. Especially since whoever asked him to speak didnt learn their lesson and he said the exact same talk a year later. Just pass out the chocolates and let all the women go to a park where buckets of KFC, potato salad and slaw are in abundance and/or veggie pizza and cheesecake. Why in the church is there such a strong, almost secular aversion to motherhood? So that no woman felt left out. Yesterday I enjoyed another Mother's Day sacrament meeting, typical with its children's songs, a talk from a young man about how wonderful mothers are, a talk from a sister about how wonderful women are, and a tearful talk from a brother about all the incredible mothers in his life. Well at least I know what not to talk about. And this is all in addition to the everyday problems like getting the bills paid and the laundry done. I also really like Kristenes suggestion and everything like unto it as EOR suggested. 1) Peanut butter sandwiches served with a smile tastes much better than the fanciest meal served with a side of stress. Your email address will not be published. Do you also not need an idea such as the Savior, your Father in Heaven or your Heavenly Mother? How could I forget? He also addressed many different groups of women separately with distinct advice for their situation, including women with small children, older women, and women who never marry. 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). Also, try to remember that not all the women in the congregation are mothers - which may be because they can't be. 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