Today after church I spent some time at the Mesa Az Temple grounds. I walked around, took pictures, prayed and generally enjoyed the beauty of this sacred place.

This really moved me today when I received it in my email. It really strengthened my testimony of the Truth of the Restored Gospel.

"Joseph's wife Emma bore a testimony similar to Parley P.Pratt's in that she continued to be amazed at the process through whichrevelations came. Years after the Prophet's death she said: 'I amsatisfied that no man could have dictated the writing of the manuscriptsunless he was inspired; for, when acting as his scribe, [Joseph]would dictate to me hour after hour; and when returning after meals, orafter interruptions, he could at once begin where he had left off, withouteither seeing the manuscript or having any portion of it read to him.'("Last Testimony of Sister Emma," The Saints' Herald, 1 Oct.1879, 289.)"

My friend J presented me with a gift this weekend. He took a small plain wooden box and he stained it and carved the Triple Goddess into the top. I was absolutely touched by this gesture. It was hand crafted, it was personalized.......it is beautiful. I believe this is a sign for the Goddess that I am losing touch with my spirituality. It is a time for renewal and rebirth.....it is time for me to get back on track. One of the first things I am doing is keeping a track of the days I feel "spiritual". There are days that I am called and driven to my spirituality and days when I'm not. I want to keep track of theses days because I believe there is a pattern and a reason behind it. I want to figure that out.

Current Mood: curious

This morning on my way to church, I offered a small prayer of thanks to the Heavenly Mother for the rain....for the temperature, for the smell of the air, for the beautiful sky, for the greeness of the plants. As an native Arizonan, the rain is a GLORIOUS blessing. Then today in my Gospel Principles class we were reading a scripture and right there in front of me it said,".....Mother Earth." I was kind of floored by this. I had never come across the scriptures referencing the earth as Mother Earth. Perhaps it is because I had never paid attention to it before. When I was a child, I was a non-denominational Christian. Then as a teenager I was beleived in the Book of Mormon and the teachings of the Mormon church even though I was never allowed to attend meetings and such. As a late teenager and young adult I was connecting with and searching the Pagan faiths.....Now as an adult, I have chosen to combine my faiths of paganism (my own brand of connecting with the sacredness of Nature and paying respects to the Heavenly Mother through ritual and prayer) and my beliefs as a Latter-day Saint (which even in my pagan searches in my young adult life, I never stopped beleiving in). So when I come across things like this, I get very excited. When I got home, I found all the scriptures that made reference to Mother Earth....Here they are.

2 Ne. 9: 7
7 Wherefore, it must needs be an ainfinite batonement—save it should be an infinite atonement this corruption could not put on incorruption. Wherefore, the cfirst judgment which came upon man must needs have dremained to an endless duration. And if so, this flesh must have laid down to rot and to crumble to its mother earth, to rise no more.

Mosiah 2: 26
26 And I, even I, whom ye call your king, am ano better than ye yourselves are; for I am also of the dust. And ye behold that I am old, and am about to yield up this mortal frame to its mother earth.

Morm. 6: 15
15 And it came to pass that there were ten more who did fall by the sword, with their ten thousand each; yea, even aall my people, save it were those twenty and four who were with me, and also a bfew who had escaped into the south countries, and a few who had deserted over unto the Lamanites, had fallen; and their flesh, and bones, and blood lay upon the face of the earth, being left by the hands of those who slew them to molder upon the land, and to crumble and to return to their mother earth.

Tags: heavenly mother; mother earth
Current Mood: grateful

March 21st........I'm finally going to do a house blessing. I am taking March 20th and 21st off for Oestara and intensive massive housecleaning! It has been 3+ years since I really went through all of my stuff and purged what I don't need and rearranged what I do. After I have my house just the way I want it, then Ill do a ritual to bless the house.......to clense it........to push away all the negitive energies that may still be residing there and make room for new happy positive energies. One of the things this year that I am working on is making my home and my body my temple. Cross your fingers!

Tags: blessings
Current Mood: peaceful

I received a blessing from the Lord the other day. I had just left work and was driving towards the freeway. When I was about half a mile from the gas station that was right before the freeway when all of a sudden my car would not accelerate when I pressed in the gas. Of course my heart started pounding and I calmly moved over in the slow lane to prepare to pull off the road and once I hit the brake with only a little force, but when I went to hit the gas the car accelerated. I was so thankful, but I knew something still was wrong. I started looking at my gages and realized I was out of gas! I don't know how I could overlooked the fact I needed gas. Luckily the gas station was about 100 feet away at that point and I easily pulled in and got the gas I needed. The reason that my car had refused to accelerate was because the fuel was so low that it was getting into the fuel pump, but when I braked it must have sloshed in. I was so thankful for that little warning from the Lord. Had that small stalling of my car not happend I would have passed that gas station and ran out of gas on the stretch of freeway where there are not exits for 5 miles and no gas stations for 7 miles. I would have had to call Ed or someone to come get me so I can go to the has station and get a gas can and get gas and go BACK to the car. And Ed didn't get off for another hour anyway. It would have just been a HUGE pain. I am so glad that I was given a warning at just the right moment. It seems small and insignificant but it was hugly important for me. That would have ruined my night and day had I ran out of gas on the freeway.

Tags: blessings;
Current Mood: thankful

Titus 2:9
9 Exhort aservants to be obedient unto their own masters, and to please them well in all things; not answering again;

Col. 3: 22
22 Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God:

1 Tim. 6: 1
1 Let as many servants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God and his doctrine be not blasphemed.

1 Pet. 2: 18
18 Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the forward

Eph. 6: 5-9
5 Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ;
6 Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;
7 With good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men:
8 Knowing that whatsoever good thing any man doeth, the same shall he receive of the Lord, whether he be bond or free.
9 And, ye masters, do the same things unto them, forbearing threatening: knowing that your Master also is in heaven; neither is there respect of persons with him.

Tags: mastery/slavery in the bible
Current Mood: Informational

This post was copied from another journal:

http://motherlovergoddess.blogspot.com/

She is another person I know who is combining Mormonism with Paganism. She discovered this comparison and it gave me the chills. I am now trying to find out what I can of the Gnostic Goddess Texts.

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D&C 110: 3-4 Comparison with Gnostic Goddess texts

On April 3, 1836 Joseph Smith received a vision along with Oliver Cowdery. The message of that vision was set down as Doctrine and Covenants 110. I am concerned primarily with sections 3-4.

In section 3 we see Christ personified as nature.

3 His eyes were as a flame of fire; the hair of his head was white like the pure snow; his countenance shone above the brightness of the sun; and his voice was as the sound of the rushing of great waters, even the voice of Jehovah, saying:

The manner of his body, his eyes and hair described as snow and fire. His body being both ice and flame. The yin and the yang, the feminine and the masculine, light and dark. A paradox of balance. Christ embodies winter and summer at the same time.

His countenance and voice are given the aspects of sun and water. Again, a balance in nature. Sun God, Water Goddess. Yemaya and Ra.

Section 4 goes on to to quote:



4 I am the first and the last; I am he who liveth, I am he who was slain; I am your advocate with the Father.

This might not mean much to anyone who hasn't read the Gnostic gospel, Thunder; Perfect Mind but those who have, this is mind blowing. D and C 110: 4 quotes at one point word-for-word from Thunder; Perfect Mind. For those unfamiliar with this Gnostic Poem here's what Wikipedia says:

The Thunder, Perfect Mind is a poem discovered among the Gnostic manuscripts at Nag Hammadi in 1945.






Thunder Perfect Mind (the title is, more accurately, The Thunder - Perfect Intellect), takes the form of an extended, riddling monologue, in which an immanent saviour speaks a series of paradoxical statements concerning the divine feminine nature.

OK, now here's the section of the poem I'm referring to:


"For I am the first and the last.
I am the honored one and the scorned one.
I am the whore and the holy one.
I am the wife and the virgin.
I am and the daughter.
I am the members of my mother."
Did you get it? First of all these texts which date back to the time of Christ and contained the Gospel of Mary Magdalene for example, were not found until 1945. So first of all, there is no way Joseph could have quoted these texts unless it was through some mystical source.

Second, the poem is a description of a savior contemplating the divine feminine. It seems to me what was given to Joseph in revelation was the masculine counter part to this ancient poem of the divine feminine!

Tags: d&c and gnostic texts
Current Mood: Amazed

I try to pray to the Heavenly Father and Heavenly Mother everymorning AT LEAST if not more. I just thought I'd share one of my rituals. Every morning when I start my prayers, I start them off with this song!

Good Morning Starshine
Good morning starshine
The earth says hello
You twinkle above us
We twinkle below
Good morning starshine
You lead us along
My love and me as we sing
Our early morning singing song
Gliddy glub gloopy
Nibby nabby noopy
La la la lo lo
Sabba sibby sabba
Nooby abba nabba
Le le lo lo
Tooby ooby walla
Nooby abba naba
Early morning singing song

Current Mood: calm

I just got done watchin Evan Almighty......the movie was ok, but I really like the idea of God looking and acting like Morgan Freeman. So Heavenly Father looks like Morgan Freeman and Heavenly Mother looks like Alanis Morsette.........I really like that combo. I think I am going to stick with that during meditations. Its all good.

Current Mood: Inspired