1) Remember Tyson and Jenny? They've been married for a couple of years now, and Tyson seems reluctant to preside over family prayer, scripture study, and family home evening. In fact, without Jenny, these things probably wouldn't happen. How would you counsel Jenny in working with Tyson who seems to be all-too-content to let her lead out in their family's spiritual matters?
I understand the role that you have, for my parents are like that. I have had to lead the family by reminding my parents of their role. I recognize that my parents play a passive role requiring the faith of the entire family to work properly. If the children did not have family prayer as a priority, the family would not practice family prayer. I would have to insist of the important family standards of like Family Home Evening and Family Prayer. Family Scripture study was scraped for a reason unknown to me. The practice has been counted probably less than 50 in my entire life. I have learned the skill to always remind, but let the partiarchial order lead. I don't have the role to be a co-equal with my father, but I would think that counseling with him consistently, concerning the expected practices of family home evening, prayer, and scripture study. If I were a co-equal with someone to lead a family, I would always be counseling with my companion how to lead the family. You may not lead the family, but counseling with Tyson, you always remind him of his role. Let him decide.
2) What stuck out most to you from the panel discussion?
The thing that stuck out to me most is the humility of the fathers and the faith of the mothers. They have taken their roles according to their personality, trying to exercise the greatest wisdom that they know. Their advice seems to be from veteran parents, recommending their wisdom. I did not like how they said that preparation for parenthood is limited.
Family life is the most important thing in the world, and the Earth has been around for many millennia. I would think that the wisdom would abound especially in our age of scientific discovery. There is so much knowledge of humanity and human development.
3) We discussed some elements of what mothers do for families and what fathers do for families. In 150 words or fewer, how are these contributions similar? How are they different?
The father's role is to provide, and the mother's role is to nurture the family. The gender differences of male and female seem to be the difference between each other. Mothers and fathers seem to have opposites. The mother stays at home to nurture for the children, and the father goes out to provide for the children everything that they need. The co-equal part in the union of husband and wife unites these roles as father do not only provide the funds for food, security, shelter, education, and so forth, but the husband works with the mother to provide the bread of life to nourish every member of the family. I hope that you recognize that the bread of life is the word of God and everything else that is necessary to provide for every need for a child.
Thursday, July 11, 2013
To the Mothers in Zion
President Ezra Taft Benson Fireside for Parents
22 February 1987
I rejoice in the opportunity of being with you this evening.
I have been touched by the beautiful music and the splendid instructions we have received.
There is no theme I would rather speak to than home and family, for they are at the very heart of the gospel of Jesus Christ. The Church, in large part, exists for the salvation and exaltation of the family.
At a recent general priesthood meeting, I spoke directly to the young men of the Aaronic Priesthood regarding their duties and responsibilities.
Shortly thereafter, at a general women's conference, I spoke to the young women of the Church, discussing their opportunities and their sacred callings.
Tonight, at this fireside for parents, seeking the sweet inspiration of heaven, I would like to speak directly to the mothers assembled here and throughout the Church, for you are, or should be, the very heart and soul of the family.
No more sacred word exists in secular or holy writ than that of mother. There is no more noble work than that of a good and God-fearing mother.
This evening I pay tribute to the mothers in Zion and pray with all my heart that what I have to say to you will be understood by the Spirit and will lift and bless your lives in your sacred callings as mothers.
President David O. McKay declared: "Motherhood is the greatest potential influence either for good or ill in human life. The mother's image is the first that stamps itself on the unwritten page of the young child's mind. It is her caress that first awakens a sense of security, her kiss, the first realization of affection; her sympathy and tenderness, the first assurance that there is love in the world." (Gospel Ideals, p. 452.)
President McKay continues: "Motherhood consists of three principal attributes or qualities: namely, (1) the power to bear, (2) the ability to rear, (3) the gift to love. . . This ability and willingness properly to rear children, the gift to love, and eagerness, yes, longing to express it in soul development, make motherhood the noblest office or calling in the world. She who can paint a masterpiece or write a book that will influence millions deserves the admiration and the plaudits of mankind; but she who rears successfully a family of healthy, beautiful sons and daughters, whose influence will be felt through generations to come, . . . deserves the highest honor that man can give, and the choicest blessings of God." (Gospel Ideals, pp. 453-54.)
With all my heart I endorse the words of President McKay.
In the eternal family, God established that fathers are to preside in the home. Fathers are to provide, to love, to teach, and to direct.
But a mother's role is also God-ordained. Mothers are to conceive, to nourish, to love, and to train. So declare the revelations.
In Section 132 of Doctrine and Covenants, the Lord states that the opportunity and responsibility of wives is "to multiply and replenish the earth, according to my commandment, and to fulfill the promise which was given by my Father before the foundation of the world, and for their exaltation in the eternal worlds, that they may bear the souls of men; for herein is the work of my Father continued, that he may be glorified" (D&C 132:62). With this divine injunction, husbands and wives, as co-creators, should eagerly and prayerfully invite children into their homes.
Then, as each child joins their family circle, they can gratefully exclaim, as did Hannah, "For this child I prayed; and the Lord hath given me my petition which I asked of him: therefore also I have lent him to the Lord: as long as he liveth he shall be lent to the Lord" (1 Samuel 1:27-28).
Isn't that beautiful? A mother praying to bear a child and then giving him to the Lord.
I have always loved the words of Solomon: "Children are an heritage of the Lord and . . . happy is the man [and woman] that hath [their] quiver full of them" (see Psalm 127: 3-5 ).
I know the special blessings of a large and happy family, for my dear parents had a quiver full of children. Being the oldest of eleven children, I saw the principles of unselfishness, mutual consideration, loyalty to each other, and a host of other virtues developed in a large and wonderful family with my noble mother as the queen of that home.
Young mothers and fathers, with all my heart I counsel you not to postpone having your children, being co-creators with our Father in heaven.
Do not use the reasoning of the world, such as, "We'll wait until we can better afford having children, until we are more secure, until John has completed his education, until he has a better paying job, until we have a larger home, until we've obtained a few of the material conveniences," and on and on.
This is the reasoning of the world and is not pleasing in the sight of God. Mothers who enjoy good health, have your children and have them early. And, husbands, always be considerate of your wives in the bearing children.
Do not curtail the number of your children for personal or selfish reasons. Material possessions, social convenience, and so-called professional advantages are nothing compared to a righteous posterity. In the eternal perspective, children--not possessions, not position, not prestige--are our greatest jewels.
Brigham Young emphasized: "There are multitudes of pure and holy spirits waiting to take tabernacles, now what is our duty?--To prepare tabernacles for them; to take a course that will not tend to drive those spirits into the families of the wicked, where they will be trained in wickedness, debauchery, and every species of crime. It is the duty of every righteous man and woman to prepare tabernacles for all the spirits they can" (Discourses of Brigham Young, p. 197).
Yes, blessed is the husband and wife who have a family of children. The deepest joys and blessings in life are associated with family, parenthood, and sacrifice. To have those sweet spirits come into the home is worth practically any sacrifice.
We realize that some women, through no fault of their own, are not able to bear children. To these lovely sisters, every prophet of God has promised that they will be blessed with children in the eternities and that posterity will not be denied them.
Through pure faith, pleading prayers, fasting, and special priesthood blessings, many of these same lovely sisters, with their noble companions at their sides have had miracles take place in their lives and have been blessed with children. Others have prayerfully chosen to adopt children, and to these wonderful couples we salute you for the sacrifices and love you have given to those children you have chosen to be your own.
Now, my dear mothers, knowing of your divine role to bear and rear children and bring them back to Him, how will you accomplish this in the Lord's way? I say the Lord's way, because it is different from the world's way.
The Lord clearly defined the roles of mothers and fathers in providing for and rearing a righteous posterity. In the beginning, Adam--not Eve--was instructed to earn the bread by the sweat of his brow. Contrary to conventional wisdom, a mother's calling is in the home, not in the market place.
Again, in the Doctrine and Covenants, we read: "Women have claim on their husbands for their maintenance, until their husbands are taken" (D&C 83:2). This is the divine right of a wife and mother. She cares for and nourishes her children at home. Her husband earns the living for the family, which makes this nourishing possible. With that claim on their husbands for their financial support, the counsel of the Church has always been for mothers to spend their full time in the home in rearing and caring for their children.
We realize also that some of our choice sisters are widowed and divorced and that others find themselves in unusual circumstances where, out of necessity, they are required to work for a period of time. But these instances are the exception, not the rule.
In a home where there is an able-bodied husband, he is expected to be the breadwinner. Sometimes we hear of husbands who, because of economic conditions, have lost their jobs and expect their wives to go out of the home and work even though the husband is still capable of providing for his family. In these cases, we urge the husband to do all in his power to allow his wife to remain in the home caring for the children while he continues to provide for his family the best he can, even though the job be is able secure may not be ideal and family budgeting will have to be tighter.
Our beloved prophet Spencer W. Kimball had much to say about the role of mothers in the home and their callings and responsibilities. I am impressed tonight to share with you some of his inspired pronouncements. I fear that much of his counsel has gone unheeded, and families have suffered because of it. But I stand this evening as a second witness to the truthfulness of what President Spencer W. Kimball said. He spoke as a true prophet of God.
President Kimball declared: "Women are to take care of the family--the Lord has so stated--to be an assistant to the husband, to work with him, but not to earn the living, except in unusual circumstances. Men ought to be men indeed and earn the living under normal circumstances" (Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, p. 318 ).
President Kimball continues: "Too many mothers work away from home to furnish sweaters and music lessons and trips and fun for their children. Too many women spend their time in socializing, in politicking, in public services when they should be home to teach and train and receive and love their children into security" (Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, p. 319).
Remember the counsel of President Kimball to John and Mary: "Mary, you are to become a career woman in the greatest career on earth--that of homemaker, wife, and mother. It was never intended by the Lord that married women should compete with men in employment. They have a far greater and more important service to render.
Again President Kimball speaks: "The husband is expected to support his family and only in an emergency should a wife secure outside employment. Her place is in the home, to build the home into a haven of delight.
"Numerous divorces can be traced directly to the day when the wife left the home and went out into the world into employment. Two incomes raise the standard of living beyond its norm. Two spouses working prevent the complete and proper home life, break into the family prayers, create an independence which is not cooperative, causes distortion, limits the family, and frustrates the children already born" (Spencer W. Kimball, San Antonio Fireside, Dec. 3, 1977, pp. 9-10 ).
Finally President Kimball counsels: "I beg of you, you who could and should be bearing and rearing a family: Wives, come home from the typewriter, the laundry, the nursing, come home from the factory, the cafe. No career approaches in importance that of wife, homemaker, mother--cooking meals, washing dishes, making beds for one's precious husband and children. Come home, wives, to your husbands. Make home a heaven for them. Come home, wives, to your children, born and unborn. Wrap the motherly cloak about you and, unembarrassed, help in a major role to create the bodies for the immortal souls who anxiously await.
"When you have fully complemented your husband in home life and borne the children, growing up full of faith, integrity, responsibility, and goodness, then you have achieved your accomplishment supreme, without peer, and you will be the envy [of all] through time and eternity" (Spencer W. Kimball, San Antonio Fireside, Dec. 3, 1977, pp. 11-12).
President Kimball spoke the truth. His words are prophetic.
Mothers in Zion, your God-given roles are so vital to your own exaltation and to the salvation and exaltation of your family. A child needs a mother more than all the things money can buy. Spending time with your children is the greatest gift of all.
With love in my heart for the mothers in Zion, I would now like to suggest ten specific ways our mothers may spend effective time with their children.
First, take time to always be at the crossroads when your children are either coming or going--when they leave and return from school--when they leave and return from dates--when they bring friends home. Be there at the crossroads whether your children are six or sixteen. In Proverbs we read: "A child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame" (Proverbs 29:15). Among the greatest concerns in our society are the millions of latchkey children who come home daily to empty houses unsupervised by working parents.
Second, mothers, take time to be a real friend to your children. Listen to your children, really listen. Talk with them, laugh and joke with them, sing with them, play with them, cry with them, hug them, honestly praise them. Yes, regularly spend unrushed one-on-one time with each child. Be a real friend to your children.
Third, mothers, take time to read to your children. Starting from the cradle, read to your sons and daughters. Remember what the poet said, "You may have tangible wealth untold; Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. Richer than I you can never be--I had a mother who read to me" (Strickland Gillilan, "The Reading Mother"). You will plant a love for good literature and a real love for the scriptures if you will read to your children regularly.
Fourth, take time to pray with your children. Family prayers, under the direction of the father, should be held morning and night. Have your children feel of your faith as you call down the blessings of heaven upon them. Paraphrasing the word of James: "The . . . fervent prayer of a righteous [mother ] availeth much" (James 5: 16 ). Have your children participate in family and personal prayers and rejoice in their sweet utterances to their Father in Heaven.
Fifth, take time to have a meaningful weekly home evening. With your husband presiding, participate in a spiritual and an uplifting home evening each week. Have your children actively involved. Teach them correct principles. Make this one of your great family traditions. Remember the marvelous promise made by President Joseph F. Smith when home evenings were first introduced to the Church: "If the Saints obey this counsel, we promise that great blessings will result. Love at home and obedience to parents will increase. Faith will be developed in the hearts of the youth of Israel, and they will gain power to combat the evil influences and temptations which beset them." This wonderful promise is still in effect today.
Sixth, take time to be together at mealtimes as often as possible. This is a challenge as the children get older and lives get busier. But happy conversation, sharing of the day's plans and activities, and special teaching moments occur at mealtime because mothers and fathers and children work at it.
Seventh, take time daily to read the scriptures together as a family. Individual scripture reading is important, but family scripture reading is vital. Reading the Book of Mormon together as a family will especially bring increased spirituality into your home and will give both parents and children the power to resist temptation and to have the Holy Ghost as their constant companion. I promise you that the Book of Mormon will change the lives of your family.
Eighth, take time to do things together as a family. Make family outings and picnics and birthday celebrations and trips special times and memory builders. Whenever possible, attend as a family, events where one of the family members is involved, such as a school play, a ball game, a talk, a recital. Attend Church meetings together and sit together as a family when you can. Mothers who help families pray and play together will stay together and will bless children's lives forever.
Ninth, mothers, take time to teach your children. Catch the teaching moments. This can be done anytime during the day--at mealtime, in casual settings, or at special sit-down times together, at the foot of the bed at the end of the day, or during an early morning walk together. Mothers, you are your children's best teacher. Don't shift this precious responsibility to day-care centers or babysitters. A mother's love and prayerful concern for her children are her most important ingredients in teaching her own.
Teach children gospel principles. Teach them it pays to be good. Teach them there is no safety in sin. Teach them a love for the gospel of Jesus Christ and a testimony of its divinity.
Teach your sons and daughters modesty and teach them to respect manhood and womanhood. Teach your children sexual purity, proper dating standards, temple marriage, missionary service, and the importance of accepting and magnifying Church callings.
Teach them a love for work and the value of a good education.
Teach them the importance of the right kind of entertainment, including appropriate movies, and videos, and music, and books, and magazines. Discuss the evils of pornography and drugs and teach them the value of living the clean life.
Yes, mothers, teach your children the gospel in your own home, at your own fireside. This is the most effective teaching that your children will ever receive. This is the Lord's way of teaching. The Church cannot teach like you can. The school cannot. The day-care center cannot. But you can, and the Lord will sustain you. Your children will remember your teachings forever, and when they are old, they will not depart from them. They will call you blessed--their truly angel mother.
Mothers, this kind of heavenly, motherly teaching takes time--lots of time. It cannot be done effectively part time. It must be done all the time in order to save and exalt your children. This is your divine calling.
Tenth and finally, mothers, take the time to truly love your children. A mother's unqualified love approaches Christlike love.
Here is a beautiful tribute by a son to his mother: "I don't remember much about her views of voting nor her social prestige; and what her ideas on child training, diet, and eugenics were, I cannot recall. The main thing that sifts back to me now through the thick undergrowth of years is that she loved me. She liked to lie on the grass with me and tell stories, or to run and hide with us children. She was always hugging me. . . . And I liked it. She had a sunny face. To me it was like God, and all the beatitudes saints tell of Him. And sing! Of all the sensations pleasurable to my life nothing can compare with the rapture of crawling up into her lap and going to sleep while she swung to and fro in her rocking chair and sang. Thinking of this, I wonder if the woman of today, with all her tremendous notions and plans, realizes what an almighty factor she is in shaping of her child for weal or woe? I wonder if she realizes how much sheer love and attention count for in a child's life."
Mothers, your teenage children also need that same kind of love and attention. It seems easier for many mothers and fathers to express and show their love to their children when they are young, but more difficult when they are older. Work at this prayerfully. There need be no generation gap. And the key is love. Our young people need love and attention, not indulgence. They need empathy and understanding, not indifference from mothers and fathers. They need the parents' time. A mother's kindly teachings and her love for and confidence in a teenage son or daughter can literally save them from a wicked world.
In closing, I would be remiss this evening if I did not express my love and eternal gratitude for my sweetheart and companion and the mother of our six children. Her devotion to motherhood has blessed me and our family beyond words of expression. She has been a marvelous mother, completely and happily devoting her life and her mission to her family. How grateful I am for Flora.
May I also express my gratitude to you fathers and husbands assembled this evening. We look to you to give righteous leadership in your home and families and, with your companions and the mothers of your children, to lead your families back to our Eternal Father.
Now God bless our wonderful mothers. We pray for you. We sustain you. We honor you as you bear, nourish, train, teach, and love for eternity. I promise you the blessings of heaven and "all that [the] Father hath" (see D&C 84:38) as you magnify the noblest calling of all--a mother in Zion.
In the name of Jesus Christ, amen.
22 February 1987
I rejoice in the opportunity of being with you this evening.
I have been touched by the beautiful music and the splendid instructions we have received.
There is no theme I would rather speak to than home and family, for they are at the very heart of the gospel of Jesus Christ. The Church, in large part, exists for the salvation and exaltation of the family.
At a recent general priesthood meeting, I spoke directly to the young men of the Aaronic Priesthood regarding their duties and responsibilities.
Shortly thereafter, at a general women's conference, I spoke to the young women of the Church, discussing their opportunities and their sacred callings.
Tonight, at this fireside for parents, seeking the sweet inspiration of heaven, I would like to speak directly to the mothers assembled here and throughout the Church, for you are, or should be, the very heart and soul of the family.
No more sacred word exists in secular or holy writ than that of mother. There is no more noble work than that of a good and God-fearing mother.
This evening I pay tribute to the mothers in Zion and pray with all my heart that what I have to say to you will be understood by the Spirit and will lift and bless your lives in your sacred callings as mothers.
President David O. McKay declared: "Motherhood is the greatest potential influence either for good or ill in human life. The mother's image is the first that stamps itself on the unwritten page of the young child's mind. It is her caress that first awakens a sense of security, her kiss, the first realization of affection; her sympathy and tenderness, the first assurance that there is love in the world." (Gospel Ideals, p. 452.)
President McKay continues: "Motherhood consists of three principal attributes or qualities: namely, (1) the power to bear, (2) the ability to rear, (3) the gift to love. . . This ability and willingness properly to rear children, the gift to love, and eagerness, yes, longing to express it in soul development, make motherhood the noblest office or calling in the world. She who can paint a masterpiece or write a book that will influence millions deserves the admiration and the plaudits of mankind; but she who rears successfully a family of healthy, beautiful sons and daughters, whose influence will be felt through generations to come, . . . deserves the highest honor that man can give, and the choicest blessings of God." (Gospel Ideals, pp. 453-54.)
With all my heart I endorse the words of President McKay.
In the eternal family, God established that fathers are to preside in the home. Fathers are to provide, to love, to teach, and to direct.
But a mother's role is also God-ordained. Mothers are to conceive, to nourish, to love, and to train. So declare the revelations.
In Section 132 of Doctrine and Covenants, the Lord states that the opportunity and responsibility of wives is "to multiply and replenish the earth, according to my commandment, and to fulfill the promise which was given by my Father before the foundation of the world, and for their exaltation in the eternal worlds, that they may bear the souls of men; for herein is the work of my Father continued, that he may be glorified" (D&C 132:62). With this divine injunction, husbands and wives, as co-creators, should eagerly and prayerfully invite children into their homes.
Then, as each child joins their family circle, they can gratefully exclaim, as did Hannah, "For this child I prayed; and the Lord hath given me my petition which I asked of him: therefore also I have lent him to the Lord: as long as he liveth he shall be lent to the Lord" (1 Samuel 1:27-28).
Isn't that beautiful? A mother praying to bear a child and then giving him to the Lord.
I have always loved the words of Solomon: "Children are an heritage of the Lord and . . . happy is the man [and woman] that hath [their] quiver full of them" (see Psalm 127: 3-5 ).
I know the special blessings of a large and happy family, for my dear parents had a quiver full of children. Being the oldest of eleven children, I saw the principles of unselfishness, mutual consideration, loyalty to each other, and a host of other virtues developed in a large and wonderful family with my noble mother as the queen of that home.
Young mothers and fathers, with all my heart I counsel you not to postpone having your children, being co-creators with our Father in heaven.
Do not use the reasoning of the world, such as, "We'll wait until we can better afford having children, until we are more secure, until John has completed his education, until he has a better paying job, until we have a larger home, until we've obtained a few of the material conveniences," and on and on.
This is the reasoning of the world and is not pleasing in the sight of God. Mothers who enjoy good health, have your children and have them early. And, husbands, always be considerate of your wives in the bearing children.
Do not curtail the number of your children for personal or selfish reasons. Material possessions, social convenience, and so-called professional advantages are nothing compared to a righteous posterity. In the eternal perspective, children--not possessions, not position, not prestige--are our greatest jewels.
Brigham Young emphasized: "There are multitudes of pure and holy spirits waiting to take tabernacles, now what is our duty?--To prepare tabernacles for them; to take a course that will not tend to drive those spirits into the families of the wicked, where they will be trained in wickedness, debauchery, and every species of crime. It is the duty of every righteous man and woman to prepare tabernacles for all the spirits they can" (Discourses of Brigham Young, p. 197).
Yes, blessed is the husband and wife who have a family of children. The deepest joys and blessings in life are associated with family, parenthood, and sacrifice. To have those sweet spirits come into the home is worth practically any sacrifice.
We realize that some women, through no fault of their own, are not able to bear children. To these lovely sisters, every prophet of God has promised that they will be blessed with children in the eternities and that posterity will not be denied them.
Through pure faith, pleading prayers, fasting, and special priesthood blessings, many of these same lovely sisters, with their noble companions at their sides have had miracles take place in their lives and have been blessed with children. Others have prayerfully chosen to adopt children, and to these wonderful couples we salute you for the sacrifices and love you have given to those children you have chosen to be your own.
Now, my dear mothers, knowing of your divine role to bear and rear children and bring them back to Him, how will you accomplish this in the Lord's way? I say the Lord's way, because it is different from the world's way.
The Lord clearly defined the roles of mothers and fathers in providing for and rearing a righteous posterity. In the beginning, Adam--not Eve--was instructed to earn the bread by the sweat of his brow. Contrary to conventional wisdom, a mother's calling is in the home, not in the market place.
Again, in the Doctrine and Covenants, we read: "Women have claim on their husbands for their maintenance, until their husbands are taken" (D&C 83:2). This is the divine right of a wife and mother. She cares for and nourishes her children at home. Her husband earns the living for the family, which makes this nourishing possible. With that claim on their husbands for their financial support, the counsel of the Church has always been for mothers to spend their full time in the home in rearing and caring for their children.
We realize also that some of our choice sisters are widowed and divorced and that others find themselves in unusual circumstances where, out of necessity, they are required to work for a period of time. But these instances are the exception, not the rule.
In a home where there is an able-bodied husband, he is expected to be the breadwinner. Sometimes we hear of husbands who, because of economic conditions, have lost their jobs and expect their wives to go out of the home and work even though the husband is still capable of providing for his family. In these cases, we urge the husband to do all in his power to allow his wife to remain in the home caring for the children while he continues to provide for his family the best he can, even though the job be is able secure may not be ideal and family budgeting will have to be tighter.
Our beloved prophet Spencer W. Kimball had much to say about the role of mothers in the home and their callings and responsibilities. I am impressed tonight to share with you some of his inspired pronouncements. I fear that much of his counsel has gone unheeded, and families have suffered because of it. But I stand this evening as a second witness to the truthfulness of what President Spencer W. Kimball said. He spoke as a true prophet of God.
President Kimball declared: "Women are to take care of the family--the Lord has so stated--to be an assistant to the husband, to work with him, but not to earn the living, except in unusual circumstances. Men ought to be men indeed and earn the living under normal circumstances" (Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, p. 318 ).
President Kimball continues: "Too many mothers work away from home to furnish sweaters and music lessons and trips and fun for their children. Too many women spend their time in socializing, in politicking, in public services when they should be home to teach and train and receive and love their children into security" (Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, p. 319).
Remember the counsel of President Kimball to John and Mary: "Mary, you are to become a career woman in the greatest career on earth--that of homemaker, wife, and mother. It was never intended by the Lord that married women should compete with men in employment. They have a far greater and more important service to render.
Again President Kimball speaks: "The husband is expected to support his family and only in an emergency should a wife secure outside employment. Her place is in the home, to build the home into a haven of delight.
"Numerous divorces can be traced directly to the day when the wife left the home and went out into the world into employment. Two incomes raise the standard of living beyond its norm. Two spouses working prevent the complete and proper home life, break into the family prayers, create an independence which is not cooperative, causes distortion, limits the family, and frustrates the children already born" (Spencer W. Kimball, San Antonio Fireside, Dec. 3, 1977, pp. 9-10 ).
Finally President Kimball counsels: "I beg of you, you who could and should be bearing and rearing a family: Wives, come home from the typewriter, the laundry, the nursing, come home from the factory, the cafe. No career approaches in importance that of wife, homemaker, mother--cooking meals, washing dishes, making beds for one's precious husband and children. Come home, wives, to your husbands. Make home a heaven for them. Come home, wives, to your children, born and unborn. Wrap the motherly cloak about you and, unembarrassed, help in a major role to create the bodies for the immortal souls who anxiously await.
"When you have fully complemented your husband in home life and borne the children, growing up full of faith, integrity, responsibility, and goodness, then you have achieved your accomplishment supreme, without peer, and you will be the envy [of all] through time and eternity" (Spencer W. Kimball, San Antonio Fireside, Dec. 3, 1977, pp. 11-12).
President Kimball spoke the truth. His words are prophetic.
Mothers in Zion, your God-given roles are so vital to your own exaltation and to the salvation and exaltation of your family. A child needs a mother more than all the things money can buy. Spending time with your children is the greatest gift of all.
With love in my heart for the mothers in Zion, I would now like to suggest ten specific ways our mothers may spend effective time with their children.
First, take time to always be at the crossroads when your children are either coming or going--when they leave and return from school--when they leave and return from dates--when they bring friends home. Be there at the crossroads whether your children are six or sixteen. In Proverbs we read: "A child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame" (Proverbs 29:15). Among the greatest concerns in our society are the millions of latchkey children who come home daily to empty houses unsupervised by working parents.
Second, mothers, take time to be a real friend to your children. Listen to your children, really listen. Talk with them, laugh and joke with them, sing with them, play with them, cry with them, hug them, honestly praise them. Yes, regularly spend unrushed one-on-one time with each child. Be a real friend to your children.
Third, mothers, take time to read to your children. Starting from the cradle, read to your sons and daughters. Remember what the poet said, "You may have tangible wealth untold; Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. Richer than I you can never be--I had a mother who read to me" (Strickland Gillilan, "The Reading Mother"). You will plant a love for good literature and a real love for the scriptures if you will read to your children regularly.
Fourth, take time to pray with your children. Family prayers, under the direction of the father, should be held morning and night. Have your children feel of your faith as you call down the blessings of heaven upon them. Paraphrasing the word of James: "The . . . fervent prayer of a righteous [mother ] availeth much" (James 5: 16 ). Have your children participate in family and personal prayers and rejoice in their sweet utterances to their Father in Heaven.
Fifth, take time to have a meaningful weekly home evening. With your husband presiding, participate in a spiritual and an uplifting home evening each week. Have your children actively involved. Teach them correct principles. Make this one of your great family traditions. Remember the marvelous promise made by President Joseph F. Smith when home evenings were first introduced to the Church: "If the Saints obey this counsel, we promise that great blessings will result. Love at home and obedience to parents will increase. Faith will be developed in the hearts of the youth of Israel, and they will gain power to combat the evil influences and temptations which beset them." This wonderful promise is still in effect today.
Sixth, take time to be together at mealtimes as often as possible. This is a challenge as the children get older and lives get busier. But happy conversation, sharing of the day's plans and activities, and special teaching moments occur at mealtime because mothers and fathers and children work at it.
Seventh, take time daily to read the scriptures together as a family. Individual scripture reading is important, but family scripture reading is vital. Reading the Book of Mormon together as a family will especially bring increased spirituality into your home and will give both parents and children the power to resist temptation and to have the Holy Ghost as their constant companion. I promise you that the Book of Mormon will change the lives of your family.
Eighth, take time to do things together as a family. Make family outings and picnics and birthday celebrations and trips special times and memory builders. Whenever possible, attend as a family, events where one of the family members is involved, such as a school play, a ball game, a talk, a recital. Attend Church meetings together and sit together as a family when you can. Mothers who help families pray and play together will stay together and will bless children's lives forever.
Ninth, mothers, take time to teach your children. Catch the teaching moments. This can be done anytime during the day--at mealtime, in casual settings, or at special sit-down times together, at the foot of the bed at the end of the day, or during an early morning walk together. Mothers, you are your children's best teacher. Don't shift this precious responsibility to day-care centers or babysitters. A mother's love and prayerful concern for her children are her most important ingredients in teaching her own.
Teach children gospel principles. Teach them it pays to be good. Teach them there is no safety in sin. Teach them a love for the gospel of Jesus Christ and a testimony of its divinity.
Teach your sons and daughters modesty and teach them to respect manhood and womanhood. Teach your children sexual purity, proper dating standards, temple marriage, missionary service, and the importance of accepting and magnifying Church callings.
Teach them a love for work and the value of a good education.
Teach them the importance of the right kind of entertainment, including appropriate movies, and videos, and music, and books, and magazines. Discuss the evils of pornography and drugs and teach them the value of living the clean life.
Yes, mothers, teach your children the gospel in your own home, at your own fireside. This is the most effective teaching that your children will ever receive. This is the Lord's way of teaching. The Church cannot teach like you can. The school cannot. The day-care center cannot. But you can, and the Lord will sustain you. Your children will remember your teachings forever, and when they are old, they will not depart from them. They will call you blessed--their truly angel mother.
Mothers, this kind of heavenly, motherly teaching takes time--lots of time. It cannot be done effectively part time. It must be done all the time in order to save and exalt your children. This is your divine calling.
Tenth and finally, mothers, take the time to truly love your children. A mother's unqualified love approaches Christlike love.
Here is a beautiful tribute by a son to his mother: "I don't remember much about her views of voting nor her social prestige; and what her ideas on child training, diet, and eugenics were, I cannot recall. The main thing that sifts back to me now through the thick undergrowth of years is that she loved me. She liked to lie on the grass with me and tell stories, or to run and hide with us children. She was always hugging me. . . . And I liked it. She had a sunny face. To me it was like God, and all the beatitudes saints tell of Him. And sing! Of all the sensations pleasurable to my life nothing can compare with the rapture of crawling up into her lap and going to sleep while she swung to and fro in her rocking chair and sang. Thinking of this, I wonder if the woman of today, with all her tremendous notions and plans, realizes what an almighty factor she is in shaping of her child for weal or woe? I wonder if she realizes how much sheer love and attention count for in a child's life."
Mothers, your teenage children also need that same kind of love and attention. It seems easier for many mothers and fathers to express and show their love to their children when they are young, but more difficult when they are older. Work at this prayerfully. There need be no generation gap. And the key is love. Our young people need love and attention, not indulgence. They need empathy and understanding, not indifference from mothers and fathers. They need the parents' time. A mother's kindly teachings and her love for and confidence in a teenage son or daughter can literally save them from a wicked world.
In closing, I would be remiss this evening if I did not express my love and eternal gratitude for my sweetheart and companion and the mother of our six children. Her devotion to motherhood has blessed me and our family beyond words of expression. She has been a marvelous mother, completely and happily devoting her life and her mission to her family. How grateful I am for Flora.
May I also express my gratitude to you fathers and husbands assembled this evening. We look to you to give righteous leadership in your home and families and, with your companions and the mothers of your children, to lead your families back to our Eternal Father.
Now God bless our wonderful mothers. We pray for you. We sustain you. We honor you as you bear, nourish, train, teach, and love for eternity. I promise you the blessings of heaven and "all that [the] Father hath" (see D&C 84:38) as you magnify the noblest calling of all--a mother in Zion.
In the name of Jesus Christ, amen.
Wednesday, July 10, 2013
To the Fathers in Israel
My dear brethren, I am grateful to be here with you in this glorious assembly of the priesthood of God. I pray that the Spirit of the Lord will be with me and with you as I address you on a most vital subject. This evening I would like to speak to the fathers assembled here and throughout the Church about their sacred callings.
I hope you young men will also listen carefully, inasmuch as you are now preparing to become the future fathers of the Church.
Fathers, yours is an eternal calling from which you are never released. Callings in the Church, as important as they are, by their very nature are only for a period of time, and then an appropriate release takes place. But a father’s calling is eternal, and its importance transcends time. It is a calling for both time and eternity.
President Harold B. Lee truly stated that “the most important of the Lord’s work that you [fathers] will ever do will be the work you do within the walls of your own home. Home teaching, bishopric’s work, and other Church duties are all important, but the most important work is within the walls of your home” (Strengthening the Home, pamphlet, 1973, p. 7).
What, then, is a father’s specific responsibility within the sacred walls of his home? May I suggest two basic responsibilities of every father in Israel.
First, you have a sacred responsibility to provide for the material needs of your family.
The Lord clearly defined the roles of providing for and rearing a righteous posterity. In the beginning, Adam, not Eve, was instructed to earn the bread by the sweat of his brow.
The Apostle Paul counsels husbands and fathers, “But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel” (1 Tim. 5:8).
Early in the history of the restored Church, the Lord specifically charged men with the obligation to provide for their wives and family. In January of 1832 He said, “Verily I say unto you, that every man who is obliged to provide for his own family, let him provide, and he shall in nowise lose his crown” (D&C 75:28). Three months later the Lord said again, “Women have claim on their husbands for their maintenance, until their husbands are taken” (D&C 83:2). This is the divine right of a wife and mother. While she cares for and nourishes her children at home, her husband earns the living for the family, which makes this nourishing possible.
In a home where there is an able-bodied husband, he is expected to be the breadwinner. Sometimes we hear of husbands who, because of economic conditions, have lost their jobs and expect the wives to go out of the home and work, even though the husband is still capable of providing for his family. In these cases, we urge the husband to do all in his power to allow his wife to remain in the home caring for the children while he continues to provide for his family the best he can, even though the job he is able to secure may not be ideal and family budgeting may have to be tighter.
Also, the need for education or material things does not justify the postponing of children in order to keep the wife working as the breadwinner of the family.
I remember the counsel of our beloved prophet Spencer W. Kimball to married students. He said: “I have told tens of thousands of young folks that when they marry they should not wait for children until they have finished their schooling and financial desires. … They should live together normally and let the children come. …
“I know of no scriptures,” President Kimball continued, “where an authorization is given to young wives to withhold their families and go to work to put their husbands through school. There are thousands of husbands who have worked their own way through school and have reared families at the same time” (“Marriage Is Honorable,” in Speeches of the Year, 1973, Provo: Brigham Young University Press, 1974, p. 263).
Brethren of the priesthood, I continue to emphasize the importance of mothers staying home to nurture, care for, and train their children in the principles of righteousness.
As I travel throughout the Church, I feel that the great majority of Latter-day Saint mothers earnestly want to follow this counsel. But we know that sometimes the mother works outside of the home at the encouragement, or even insistence, of her husband. It is he who wants the items of convenience that the extra income can buy. Not only will the family suffer in such instances, brethren, but your own spiritual growth and progression will be hampered. I say to all of you, the Lord has charged men with the responsibility to provide for their families in such a way that the wife is allowed to fulfill her role as mother in the home.
Fathers, another vital aspect of providing for the material needs of your family is the provision you should be making for your family in case of an emergency. Family preparedness has been a long-established welfare principle. It is even more urgent today.
I ask you earnestly, have you provided for your family a year’s supply of food, clothing, and, where possible, fuel? The revelation to produce and store food may be as essential to our temporal welfare today as boarding the ark was to the people in the days of Noah.
Also, are you living within your income and saving a little?
Are you honest with the Lord in the payment of your tithes? Living this divine law will bring both spiritual and material blessings.
Yes, brethren, as fathers in Israel you have a great responsibility to provide for the material needs of your family and to have the necessary provisions in case of emergency.
Second, you have a sacred responsibility to provide spiritual leadership in your family.
In a pamphlet published some years ago by the Council of the Twelve, we said the following: “Fatherhood is leadership, the most important kind of leadership. It has always been so; it always will be so. Father, with the assistance and counsel and encouragement of your eternal companion, you preside in the home” (Father, Consider Your Ways, pamphlet, 1973, pp. 4–5).
However, along with that presiding position come important obligations. We sometimes hear accounts of men, even in the Church, who think that being head of the home somehow puts them in a superior role and allows them to dictate and make demands upon their family.
The Apostle Paul points out that “the husband is the head of the wife,even as Christ is the head of the church” (Eph. 5:23; italics added). That is the model we are to follow in our role of presiding in the home. We do not find the Savior leading the Church with a harsh or unkind hand. We do not find the Savior treating His Church with disrespect or neglect. We do not find the Savior using force or coercion to accomplish His purposes. Nowhere do we find the Savior doing anything but that which edifies, uplifts, comforts, and exalts the Church. Brethren, I say to you with all soberness, He is the model we must follow as we take the spiritual lead in our families.
Particularly is this true in your relationship with your wife.
Here again the counsel from the Apostle Paul is most beautiful and to the point. He said simply, “Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church” (Eph. 5:25).
In latter-day revelation the Lord speaks again of this obligation. He said, “Thou shalt love thy wife with all thy heart, and shalt cleave unto her and none else” (D&C 42:22). To my knowledge there is only one other thing in all scripture that we are commanded to love with all our hearts, and that is God Himself. Think what that means!
This kind of love can be shown for your wives in so many ways. First and foremost, nothing except God Himself takes priority over your wife in your life—not work, not recreation, not hobbies. Your wife is your precious, eternal helpmate—your companion.
What does it mean to love someone with all your heart? It means to love with all your emotional feelings and with all your devotion. Surely when you love your wife with all your heart, you cannot demean her, criticize her, find fault with her, or abuse her by words, sullen behavior, or actions.
What does it mean to “cleave unto her”? It means to stay close to her, to be loyal and faithful to her, to communicate with her, and to express your love for her.
Love means being sensitive to her feelings and needs. She wants to be noticed and treasured. She wants to be told that you view her as lovely and attractive and important to you. Love means putting her welfare and self-esteem as a high priority in your life.
You should be grateful that she is the mother of your children and the queen of your home, grateful that she has chosen homemaking and motherhood—to bear, to nourish, to love, and to train your children—as the noblest calling of all.
Husbands, recognize your wife’s intelligence and her ability to counsel with you as a real partner regarding family plans, family activities, and family budgeting. Don’t be stingy with your time or with your means.
Give her the opportunity to grow intellectually, emotionally, and socially as well as spiritually.
Remember, brethren, love can be nurtured and nourished by little tokens. Flowers on special occasions are wonderful, but so is your willingness to help with the dishes, change diapers, get up with a crying child in the night, and leave the television or the newspaper to help with the dinner. Those are the quiet ways we say “I love you” with our actions. They bring rich dividends for such little effort.
This kind of loving priesthood leadership applies to your children as well as to your wife.
Mothers play an important role as the heart of the home, but this in no way lessens the equally important role fathers should play, as head of the home, in nurturing, training, and loving their children.
As the patriarch in your home, you have a serious responsibility to assume leadership in working with your children. You must help create a home where the Spirit of the Lord can abide. Your place is to give direction to all family life. You should take an active part in establishing family rules and discipline.
Your homes should be havens of peace and joy for your family. Surely no child should fear his own father—especially a priesthood father. A father’s duty is to make his home a place of happiness and joy. He cannot do this when there is bickering, quarreling, contention, or unrighteous behavior. The powerful effect of righteous fathers in setting an example, disciplining and training, nurturing and loving is vital to the spiritual welfare of his children.
With love in my heart for the fathers in Israel, may I suggest ten specific ways that fathers can give spiritual leadership to their children:
- 1. Give father’s blessings to your children. Baptize and confirm your children. Ordain your sons to the priesthood. These will become spiritual highlights in the lives of your children.
- 2. Personally direct family prayers, daily scripture reading, and weekly family home evenings. Your personal involvement will show your children how important these activities really are.
- 3. Whenever possible, attend Church meetings together as a family. Family worship under your leadership is vital to your children’s spiritual welfare.
- 4. Go on daddy-daughter dates and father-and-sons’ outings with your children. As a family, go on campouts and picnics, to ball games and recitals, to school programs, and so forth. Having Dad there makes all the difference.
- 5. Build traditions of family vacations and trips and outings. These memories will never be forgotten by your children.
- 6. Have regular one-on-one visits with your children. Let them talk about what they would like to. Teach them gospel principles. Teach them true values. Tell them you love them. Personal time with your children tells them where Dad puts his priorities.
- 7. Teach your children to work, and show them the value of working toward a worthy goal. Establishing mission funds and education funds for your children shows them what Dad considers to be important.
- 8. Encourage good music and art and literature in your homes. Homes that have a spirit of refinement and beauty will bless the lives of your children forever.
- 9. As distances allow, regularly attend the temple with your wife. Your children will then better understand the importance of temple marriage and temple vows and the eternal family unit.
- 10. Have your children see your joy and satisfaction in service to the Church. This can become contagious to them, so they, too, will want to serve in the Church and will love the kingdom.
Oh, husbands and fathers in Israel, you can do so much for the salvation and exaltation of your families! Your responsibilities are so important.
Remember your sacred calling as a father in Israel—your most important calling in time and eternity—a calling from which you will never be released.
May you always provide for the material needs of your family and, with your eternal companion at your side, may you fulfill your sacred responsibility to provide the spiritual leadership in your home.
To this end I pray, in the name of Jesus Christ, amen.
Wednesday, June 26, 2013
More Diligent and Concerned at Home
DAVID A. BEDNAR
Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
We can become more diligent and concerned at home as we are more faithful in learning, living, and loving the restored gospel of Jesus Christ.
In 1833 the Prophet Joseph Smith received a revelation that contained a strong rebuke to several leading brethren of the Church to set their families in order (see D&C 93:40–50). A specific phrase from this revelation provides the theme for my message—“more diligent and concerned at home” (verse 50). I want to suggest three ways each of us can become more diligent and concerned in our homes. I invite you to listen both with ears that hear and with hearts that feel, and I pray for the Spirit of the Lord to be with all of us.
Suggestion Number One: Express Love—and Show It
We can begin to become more diligent and concerned at home by telling the people we love that we love them. Such expressions do not need to be flowery or lengthy. We simply should sincerely and frequently express love.
Brethren and sisters, when was the last time you took your eternal companion in your arms and said, “I love you”? Parents, when was the last time you sincerely expressed love to your children? Children, when was the last time you told your parents that you love them?
Each of us already knows we should tell the people we love that we love them. But what we know is not always reflected in what we do. We may feel unsure, awkward, or even perhaps a bit embarrassed.
As disciples of the Savior, we are not merely striving to know more; rather, we need to consistently do more of what we know is right and become better.
We should remember that saying “I love you” is only a beginning. We need to say it, we need to mean it, and most importantly we need consistently to show it. We need to both express and demonstrate love.
President Thomas S. Monson recently counseled: “Often we assume that [the people around us] must know how much we love them. But we should never assume; we should let them know. … We will never regret the kind words spoken or the affection shown. Rather, our regrets will come if such things are omitted from our relationships with those who mean the most to us” (“Finding Joy in the Journey,” Liahona and Ensign, Nov. 2008, 86).
Sometimes in a sacrament meeting talk or testimony, we hear a statement like this: “I know I do not tell my spouse often enough how much I love her. Today I want her, my children, and all of you to know that I love her.”
Such an expression of love may be appropriate. But when I hear a statement like this, I squirm and silently exclaim that the spouse and children should not be hearing this apparently rare and private communication in public at church! Hopefully the children hear love expressed and see love demonstrated between their parents in the regular routine of daily living. If, however, the public statement of love at church is a bit surprising to the spouse or the children, then indeed there is a need to be more diligent and concerned at home.
The relationship between love and appropriate action is demonstrated repeatedly in the scriptures and is highlighted by the Savior’s instruction to His Apostles: “If ye love me, keep my commandments” (John 14:15). Just as our love of and for the Lord is evidenced by walking ever in His ways (see Deuteronomy 19:9), so our love for spouse, parents, and children is reflected most powerfully in our thoughts, our words, and our deeds (see Mosiah 4:30).
Feeling the security and constancy of love from a spouse, a parent, or a child is a rich blessing. Such love nurtures and sustains faith in God. Such love is a source of strength and casts out fear (see 1 John 4:18). Such love is the desire of every human soul.
We can become more diligent and concerned at home as we express love—and consistently show it.
Suggestion Number Two: Bear Testimony—and Live It
We also can become more diligent and concerned at home by bearing testimony to those whom we love about the things we know to be true by the witness of the Holy Ghost. The bearing of testimony need not be lengthy or eloquent. And we do not need to wait until the first Sunday of the month to declare our witness of things that are true. Within the walls of our own homes, we can and should bear pure testimony of the divinity and reality of the Father and the Son, of the great plan of happiness, and of the Restoration.
Brethren and sisters, when was the last time you bore testimony to your eternal companion? Parents, when was the last time you declared your witness to your children about the things you know to be true? And children, when was the last time you shared your testimony with your parents and family?
Each of us already knows we should bear testimony to the people we love the most. But what we know is not always reflected in what we do. We may feel unsure, awkward, or even perhaps a bit embarrassed.
As disciples of the Savior, we are not merely striving to know more; rather, we need to consistently do more of what we know is right and become better.
We should remember that bearing a heartfelt testimony is only a beginning. We need to bear testimony, we need to mean it, and most importantly we need consistently to live it. We need to both declare and live our testimonies.
The relationship between testimony and appropriate action is emphasized in the Savior’s instruction to the Saints in Kirtland: “That which the Spirit testifies unto you even so I would that ye should do” (D&C 46:7). Our testimony of gospel truth should be reflected both in our words and in our deeds. And our testimonies are proclaimed and lived most powerfully in our own homes. Spouses, parents, and children should strive to overcome any hesitancy, reluctance, or embarrassment about bearing testimony. We should both create and look for opportunities to bear testimony of gospel truths—and live them.
A testimony is what we know to be true in our minds and in our hearts by the witness of the Holy Ghost (see D&C 8:2). As we profess truth rather than admonish, exhort, or simply share interesting experiences, we invite the Holy Ghost to confirm the verity of our words. The power of pure testimony (see Alma 4:19) does not come from sophisticated language or effective presentation; rather, it is the result of revelation conveyed by the third member of the Godhead, even the Holy Ghost.
Feeling the power, the edification, and the constancy of testimony from a spouse, a parent, or a child is a rich blessing. Such testimony fortifies faith and provides direction. Such testimony generates light in a world that grows increasingly dark. Such testimony is the source of an eternal perspective and of enduring peace.
We can become more diligent and concerned at home as we bear testimony—and consistently live it.
Suggestion Number Three: Be Consistent
As our sons were growing up, our family did what you have done and what you now do. We had regular family prayer, scripture study, and family home evening. Now, I am sure what I am about to describe has never occurred in your home, but it did in ours.
Sometimes Sister Bednar and I wondered if our efforts to do these spiritually essential things were worthwhile. Now and then verses of scripture were read amid outbursts such as “He’s touching me!” “Make him stop looking at me!” “Mom, he’s breathing my air!” Sincere prayers occasionally were interrupted with giggling and poking. And with active, rambunctious boys, family home evening lessons did not always produce high levels of edification. At times Sister Bednar and I were exasperated because the righteous habits we worked so hard to foster did not seem to yield immediately the spiritual results we wanted and expected.
Today if you could ask our adult sons what they remember about family prayer, scripture study, and family home evening, I believe I know how they would answer. They likely would not identify a particular prayer or a specific instance of scripture study or an especially meaningful family home evening lesson as the defining moment in their spiritual development. What they would say they remember is that as a family we were consistent.
Sister Bednar and I thought helping our sons understand the content of a particular lesson or a specific scripture was the ultimate outcome. But such a result does not occur each time we study or pray or learn together. The consistency of our intent and work was perhaps the greatest lesson—a lesson we did not fully appreciate at the time.
In my office is a beautiful painting of a wheat field. The painting is a vast collection of individual brushstrokes—none of which in isolation is very interesting or impressive. In fact, if you stand close to the canvas, all you can see is a mass of seemingly unrelated and unattractive streaks of yellow and gold and brown paint. However, as you gradually move away from the canvas, all of the individual brushstrokes combine together and produce a magnificent landscape of a wheat field. Many ordinary, individual brushstrokes work together to create a captivating and beautiful painting.
Each family prayer, each episode of family scripture study, and each family home evening is a brushstroke on the canvas of our souls. No one event may appear to be very impressive or memorable. But just as the yellow and gold and brown strokes of paint complement each other and produce an impressive masterpiece, so our consistency in doing seemingly small things can lead to significant spiritual results. “Wherefore, be not weary in well-doing, for ye are laying the foundation of a great work. And out of small things proceedeth that which is great” (D&C 64:33). Consistency is a key principle as we lay the foundation of a great work in our individual lives and as we become more diligent and concerned in our own homes.
Being consistent in our homes is important for another reason. Many of the Savior’s harshest rebukes were directed to hypocrites. Jesus warned His disciples concerning the scribes and Pharisees: “Do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not” (Matthew 23:3). This strong admonition is sobering given the counsel to “express love—and show it,” to “bear testimony—and live it,” and to “be consistent.”
The hypocrisy in our lives is most readily discerned and causes the greatest destruction within our own homes. And children often are the most alert and sensitive when it comes to recognizing hypocrisy.
A public statement of love when the private actions of love are absent at home is hypocrisy—and weakens the foundation of a great work. Publicly declaring testimony when faithfulness and obedience are missing within our own homes is hypocrisy—and undermines the foundation of a great work. The commandment “Thou shalt not bear false witness” (Exodus 20:16) applies most pointedly to the hypocrite in each of us. We need to be and become more consistent. “But be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity” (1 Timothy 4:12).
As we seek the Lord’s help and in His strength, we can gradually reduce the disparity between what we say and what we do, between expressing love and consistently showing it, and between bearing testimony and steadfastly living it. We can become more diligent and concerned at home as we are more faithful in learning, living, and loving the restored gospel of Jesus Christ.
Testimony
“Marriage between a man and a woman is ordained of God and … the family is central to the Creator’s plan for the eternal destiny of His children” (“The Family: A Proclamation to the World,” Liahona, Oct. 2004, 49; Ensign, Nov. 1995, 102). For these and other eternally important reasons, we should be more diligent and concerned at home.
May every spouse, every child, and every parent be blessed to communicate and receive love, to bear and be edified by strong testimony, and to become more consistent in the seemingly small things that matter so much.
In these important pursuits we will never be left alone. Our Heavenly Father and His Beloved Son live. They love us and know our circumstances, and They will help us to become more diligent and concerned at home. Of these truths I testify in the sacred name of the Lord Jesus Christ, amen.
Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
We can become more diligent and concerned at home as we are more faithful in learning, living, and loving the restored gospel of Jesus Christ.
In 1833 the Prophet Joseph Smith received a revelation that contained a strong rebuke to several leading brethren of the Church to set their families in order (see D&C 93:40–50). A specific phrase from this revelation provides the theme for my message—“more diligent and concerned at home” (verse 50). I want to suggest three ways each of us can become more diligent and concerned in our homes. I invite you to listen both with ears that hear and with hearts that feel, and I pray for the Spirit of the Lord to be with all of us.
Suggestion Number One: Express Love—and Show It
We can begin to become more diligent and concerned at home by telling the people we love that we love them. Such expressions do not need to be flowery or lengthy. We simply should sincerely and frequently express love.
Brethren and sisters, when was the last time you took your eternal companion in your arms and said, “I love you”? Parents, when was the last time you sincerely expressed love to your children? Children, when was the last time you told your parents that you love them?
Each of us already knows we should tell the people we love that we love them. But what we know is not always reflected in what we do. We may feel unsure, awkward, or even perhaps a bit embarrassed.
As disciples of the Savior, we are not merely striving to know more; rather, we need to consistently do more of what we know is right and become better.
We should remember that saying “I love you” is only a beginning. We need to say it, we need to mean it, and most importantly we need consistently to show it. We need to both express and demonstrate love.
President Thomas S. Monson recently counseled: “Often we assume that [the people around us] must know how much we love them. But we should never assume; we should let them know. … We will never regret the kind words spoken or the affection shown. Rather, our regrets will come if such things are omitted from our relationships with those who mean the most to us” (“Finding Joy in the Journey,” Liahona and Ensign, Nov. 2008, 86).
Sometimes in a sacrament meeting talk or testimony, we hear a statement like this: “I know I do not tell my spouse often enough how much I love her. Today I want her, my children, and all of you to know that I love her.”
Such an expression of love may be appropriate. But when I hear a statement like this, I squirm and silently exclaim that the spouse and children should not be hearing this apparently rare and private communication in public at church! Hopefully the children hear love expressed and see love demonstrated between their parents in the regular routine of daily living. If, however, the public statement of love at church is a bit surprising to the spouse or the children, then indeed there is a need to be more diligent and concerned at home.
The relationship between love and appropriate action is demonstrated repeatedly in the scriptures and is highlighted by the Savior’s instruction to His Apostles: “If ye love me, keep my commandments” (John 14:15). Just as our love of and for the Lord is evidenced by walking ever in His ways (see Deuteronomy 19:9), so our love for spouse, parents, and children is reflected most powerfully in our thoughts, our words, and our deeds (see Mosiah 4:30).
Feeling the security and constancy of love from a spouse, a parent, or a child is a rich blessing. Such love nurtures and sustains faith in God. Such love is a source of strength and casts out fear (see 1 John 4:18). Such love is the desire of every human soul.
We can become more diligent and concerned at home as we express love—and consistently show it.
Suggestion Number Two: Bear Testimony—and Live It
We also can become more diligent and concerned at home by bearing testimony to those whom we love about the things we know to be true by the witness of the Holy Ghost. The bearing of testimony need not be lengthy or eloquent. And we do not need to wait until the first Sunday of the month to declare our witness of things that are true. Within the walls of our own homes, we can and should bear pure testimony of the divinity and reality of the Father and the Son, of the great plan of happiness, and of the Restoration.
Brethren and sisters, when was the last time you bore testimony to your eternal companion? Parents, when was the last time you declared your witness to your children about the things you know to be true? And children, when was the last time you shared your testimony with your parents and family?
Each of us already knows we should bear testimony to the people we love the most. But what we know is not always reflected in what we do. We may feel unsure, awkward, or even perhaps a bit embarrassed.
As disciples of the Savior, we are not merely striving to know more; rather, we need to consistently do more of what we know is right and become better.
We should remember that bearing a heartfelt testimony is only a beginning. We need to bear testimony, we need to mean it, and most importantly we need consistently to live it. We need to both declare and live our testimonies.
The relationship between testimony and appropriate action is emphasized in the Savior’s instruction to the Saints in Kirtland: “That which the Spirit testifies unto you even so I would that ye should do” (D&C 46:7). Our testimony of gospel truth should be reflected both in our words and in our deeds. And our testimonies are proclaimed and lived most powerfully in our own homes. Spouses, parents, and children should strive to overcome any hesitancy, reluctance, or embarrassment about bearing testimony. We should both create and look for opportunities to bear testimony of gospel truths—and live them.
A testimony is what we know to be true in our minds and in our hearts by the witness of the Holy Ghost (see D&C 8:2). As we profess truth rather than admonish, exhort, or simply share interesting experiences, we invite the Holy Ghost to confirm the verity of our words. The power of pure testimony (see Alma 4:19) does not come from sophisticated language or effective presentation; rather, it is the result of revelation conveyed by the third member of the Godhead, even the Holy Ghost.
Feeling the power, the edification, and the constancy of testimony from a spouse, a parent, or a child is a rich blessing. Such testimony fortifies faith and provides direction. Such testimony generates light in a world that grows increasingly dark. Such testimony is the source of an eternal perspective and of enduring peace.
We can become more diligent and concerned at home as we bear testimony—and consistently live it.
Suggestion Number Three: Be Consistent
As our sons were growing up, our family did what you have done and what you now do. We had regular family prayer, scripture study, and family home evening. Now, I am sure what I am about to describe has never occurred in your home, but it did in ours.
Sometimes Sister Bednar and I wondered if our efforts to do these spiritually essential things were worthwhile. Now and then verses of scripture were read amid outbursts such as “He’s touching me!” “Make him stop looking at me!” “Mom, he’s breathing my air!” Sincere prayers occasionally were interrupted with giggling and poking. And with active, rambunctious boys, family home evening lessons did not always produce high levels of edification. At times Sister Bednar and I were exasperated because the righteous habits we worked so hard to foster did not seem to yield immediately the spiritual results we wanted and expected.
Today if you could ask our adult sons what they remember about family prayer, scripture study, and family home evening, I believe I know how they would answer. They likely would not identify a particular prayer or a specific instance of scripture study or an especially meaningful family home evening lesson as the defining moment in their spiritual development. What they would say they remember is that as a family we were consistent.
Sister Bednar and I thought helping our sons understand the content of a particular lesson or a specific scripture was the ultimate outcome. But such a result does not occur each time we study or pray or learn together. The consistency of our intent and work was perhaps the greatest lesson—a lesson we did not fully appreciate at the time.
In my office is a beautiful painting of a wheat field. The painting is a vast collection of individual brushstrokes—none of which in isolation is very interesting or impressive. In fact, if you stand close to the canvas, all you can see is a mass of seemingly unrelated and unattractive streaks of yellow and gold and brown paint. However, as you gradually move away from the canvas, all of the individual brushstrokes combine together and produce a magnificent landscape of a wheat field. Many ordinary, individual brushstrokes work together to create a captivating and beautiful painting.
Each family prayer, each episode of family scripture study, and each family home evening is a brushstroke on the canvas of our souls. No one event may appear to be very impressive or memorable. But just as the yellow and gold and brown strokes of paint complement each other and produce an impressive masterpiece, so our consistency in doing seemingly small things can lead to significant spiritual results. “Wherefore, be not weary in well-doing, for ye are laying the foundation of a great work. And out of small things proceedeth that which is great” (D&C 64:33). Consistency is a key principle as we lay the foundation of a great work in our individual lives and as we become more diligent and concerned in our own homes.
Being consistent in our homes is important for another reason. Many of the Savior’s harshest rebukes were directed to hypocrites. Jesus warned His disciples concerning the scribes and Pharisees: “Do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not” (Matthew 23:3). This strong admonition is sobering given the counsel to “express love—and show it,” to “bear testimony—and live it,” and to “be consistent.”
The hypocrisy in our lives is most readily discerned and causes the greatest destruction within our own homes. And children often are the most alert and sensitive when it comes to recognizing hypocrisy.
A public statement of love when the private actions of love are absent at home is hypocrisy—and weakens the foundation of a great work. Publicly declaring testimony when faithfulness and obedience are missing within our own homes is hypocrisy—and undermines the foundation of a great work. The commandment “Thou shalt not bear false witness” (Exodus 20:16) applies most pointedly to the hypocrite in each of us. We need to be and become more consistent. “But be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity” (1 Timothy 4:12).
As we seek the Lord’s help and in His strength, we can gradually reduce the disparity between what we say and what we do, between expressing love and consistently showing it, and between bearing testimony and steadfastly living it. We can become more diligent and concerned at home as we are more faithful in learning, living, and loving the restored gospel of Jesus Christ.
Testimony
“Marriage between a man and a woman is ordained of God and … the family is central to the Creator’s plan for the eternal destiny of His children” (“The Family: A Proclamation to the World,” Liahona, Oct. 2004, 49; Ensign, Nov. 1995, 102). For these and other eternally important reasons, we should be more diligent and concerned at home.
May every spouse, every child, and every parent be blessed to communicate and receive love, to bear and be edified by strong testimony, and to become more consistent in the seemingly small things that matter so much.
In these important pursuits we will never be left alone. Our Heavenly Father and His Beloved Son live. They love us and know our circumstances, and They will help us to become more diligent and concerned at home. Of these truths I testify in the sacred name of the Lord Jesus Christ, amen.
Tuesday, June 25, 2013
The Nightly World #News Report of the 25th of June 2013
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Public strongly
supports Obama's efforts to combat climate change, says leading pollster,
including coal plant regs: http://reut.rs/14nlEyr
Bloomberg News
@BloombergNews 8h
Rick Santorum takes
leading role in Christian filmmaking | http://bloom.bg/10irVfw
Reuters World
@ReutersWorld 8h
Libya's national
assembly elects new president http://reut.rs/10RekOP
Bloomberg News
@BloombergNews 9h
China will keep
money-market rates at “reasonable” level | http://bloom.bg/14nEhm0
Capitol Report
@capitolreport 9h
Bernanke gets votes of
confidence from Trichet, King http://on.mktw.net/17bgEjh
Al Arabiya
English @AlArabiya_Eng 9h
#BreakingNews:
Libya's general national congress elects Nuri Abu Sahmain as its president
Reuters Top News
@Reuters 9h
Putin says Russia
security agencies "never worked with [Edward Snowden] and are not working
with him today" #breaking
Ruth Mantell
@RuthMantell 9h
San Francisco leads
the home price boom, according to Case-Shiller data. http://on.mktw.net/11Y3T6b pic.twitter.com/O40RJOwIyc
View photo
Bloomberg News
@BloombergNews 9h
Hackers attack
websites of South Korean president, prime minister on Korean War anniversary | http://bloom.bg/12fpFXd
New York Times
World @nytimesworld 9h
Police in 3 European
Nations Raid Terror Suspects http://nyti.ms/1aKparV
Zee News
@ZeeNews 9h
Uttarakhand victims
complain of government apathy http://zeenews.india.com/news/nation/uttarakhand-victims-complain-of-government-apathy_857743.html …
Reuters Top News
@Reuters 9h
Edward Snowden is a
free man, and the sooner he chooses a destination the better: Russia's Putin
#breaking
MarketWatch
@MarketWatch 9h
Draghi: In the euro
zone "the overall economic outlook still warrants an accommodative
stance" http://on.mktw.net/14uEiF6
Reuters Top News
@Reuters 9h
Russia's Putin says
Edward Snowden is at Moscow Airport and has committed no crime in Russia
#breaking
BN Politics
@BNPolitics 9h
Putin says Snowden
arrived in Moscow, still in transit area of Moscow airport.
BloombergNow
@BloombergNow 9h
.@NAACP makes statment
on #scotus voting rights act decision | http://bit.ly/1aaCNlm
New York Times
World @nytimesworld 9h
US lashes out against
China, Ecuador and Russia, which insists Snowden "didn't cross Russian
border." http://nyti.ms/1336GBg
The Daily Star
@DailyStarLeb 9h
#Syria to jail anyone
entering country illegally, SANA reports http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2013/Jun-25/221548-syria-to-jail-anyone-entering-country-illegally-sana.ashx …
Bloomberg News
@BloombergNews 9h
U.S. Supreme Court
will issue final opinions of term tomorrow; includes same-sex marriage cases
Dawn Media Group
@dawn_com 9h
#Sethi’s appointment
as #PCB chief unconstitutional: Transparency http://beta.dawn.com/news/1020693 #Pakistan
#Cricket
MarketWatch
Economy @MKTWeconomics 9h
Sales of new homes
leaped 40.7% in the Midwest and 20.7% in the Northeast in May. But they fell 9%
in the South http://on.mktw.net/16wSKxu
Zee News
@ZeeNews 9h
Railways move 7,945
passengers from #Uttarakhand http://zeenews.india.com/news/nation/railways-move-7-945-passengers-from-uttarakhand_857733.html …
Al Arabiya
English @AlArabiya_Eng 9h
#Kerry counsels
against violence in #Egypt protests http://bit.ly/14Vf2d9 #Cairo
Agence
France-Presse @AFP 9h
Head of Istanbul's bid
to host 2020 Olympics says he is proud of protesters who have flooded Turkish
cities
BloombergNow
@BloombergNow 9h
"The Voting
Rights Act Case is absolutely historic...It probably spells the death knell for
that statute" | http://bit.ly/1aaCNlm
Al Arabiya
English @AlArabiya_Eng 10h
#UAE’s #Etisalat,
#China #Mobile said to be weighing bids for #Pakistan's #Warid http://ara.tv/r6tqn #telecom
Al Arabiya
English @AlArabiya_Eng 10h
#Ahmadinejad says
#Iran looking to be major #fuel exporter http://ara.tv/6xxrc #energy
BloombergNow
@BloombergNow 10h
A divided U.S. Supreme
Court threw out a core part of the 1965 Voting Rights Act | http://bit.ly/1aaCNlm
Bloomberg News
@BloombergNews 10h
Court say Congress
lacks grounds for requiring some states to get approval before changing
election rules | http://bit.ly/14otxUl
Agence
France-Presse @AFP 10h
Hong Kong 'did not
assist Snowden's departure', says incomplete paperwork prevented provisional
arrest warrant
Reuters Top News
@Reuters 10h
U.S. Supreme Court
strikes down key part of Voting Rights Act law aimed at protecting minority
voters #breaking
Bloomberg News
@BloombergNews 10h
MORE: Section 4 of the
Voting Rights Act ruled unconstitutional by Supreme Court
Bloomberg News
@BloombergNews 10h
Qatar, the world's
richest country, set for new era as emir abdicates | http://bloom.bg/17xNG0x
Al Arabiya
English @AlArabiya_Eng 10h
#Syrian Al-Qaeda
branch claims suicide attacks http://bit.ly/14VcCuW #Syria
#Qaeda
The Daily Star
@DailyStarLeb 10h
#Army in pursuit of
gunmen in southern #Beirut, #Lebanon http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Local-News/2013/Jun-25/221547-army-in-pursuit-of-gunmen-in-southern-beirut.ashx …
Egypt
Independent @EgyIndependent 10h
President to give account
of past year in address to nation Wednesday http://dlvr.it/3Z3kmm
Egypt
Independent @EgyIndependent 10h
Former PM Nazif
released in license plates case http://dlvr.it/3Z3knq
Al Arabiya
English @AlArabiya_Eng 10h
#Lebanese military
sources say 110 Assir loyalists are arrested http://ara.tv/gn7yw via
@AlArabiya_Eng
BloombergNow
@BloombergNow 10h
#SCOTUS decisions are
being announced in order of reverse seniority. Follow LIVE | http://bit.ly/1aaCNlm
Al Arabiya
English @AlArabiya_Eng 10h
Death toll: 17
Lebanese soldiers and 50 Assir loyalists were killed after clashes http://ara.tv/gn7yw via
@AlArabiya_Eng #Lebanon
Al Arabiya
English @AlArabiya_Eng 10h
Exclusive footage:
#Lebanese cleric turned mosque into military base http://ara.tv/gn7yw via
@AlArabiya_Eng
MarketWatch
@MarketWatch 10h
June consumer
confidence 81.4
Bloomberg News
@BloombergNews 10h
BREAKING: U.S. May
new-home sales rise 2.1% to 476,000 rate, beating analyst expectations
Bloomberg News
@BloombergNews 10h
Berlusconi's sex-crime
conviction rattles Letta government | http://bloom.bg/17yyAIf
The Daily Star
@DailyStarLeb 10h
#HRW condemns terror
trial of peaceful Syrian activists #Syria http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2013/Jun-25/221545-hrw-condemns-terror-trial-of-peaceful-syrian-activists.ashx …
Dawn Media Group
@dawn_com 10h
|HERALD EXCLUSIVE|
Running on reserve: Is there a more effective way of representing #women in
#parliament?http://dawn.com/news/1020691/herald-exclusive-running-on-reserve …
BBC News (World)
@BBCWorld 10h
"Doctors continue
to do their best to ensure his recovery" - statement on Nelson #Mandela's
condition http://bbc.in/136t8L0
Jeremy Olshan
@jolshan 10h
Shakespeare and
Aristotle are no longer the big men on campus, but in online classes they're
disappearing altogether http://on.mktw.net/1aaxVwv
Haaretz.com
@haaretzcom 10h
#Israel ranks as the
world's sixth largest arms exporter in 2012 http://htz.li/19oNzF5
Zee News
@ZeeNews 10h
#India’s longest
tunnel of 11km Pir Panjal is all set to open tomorrow. Watch Zee News’s special
programme ‘Train to Jannat’ at 8:30
Haaretz.com
@haaretzcom 10h
#Israeli
archaeologists unearth part of ancient #Roman road in East #Jerusalem http://htz.li/14V1kXJ
MarketsTicker
@MarketsTicker 10h
Coming up: New
U.S.home sales, consumer confidence http://on.mktw.net/1aKhSEo
MarketWatch
@MarketWatch 10h
U.S. stocks open
higher as data surpass estimates
Reuters Top News
@Reuters 10h
No need to escalate
'confrontation with Russia' over Snowden: Kerry http://reut.rs/10QSxH3
MarketWatch
@MarketWatch 10h
Dow quickly climbs 115
points at the open: http://on.mktw.net/10QUF1w
The Daily Star
@DailyStarLeb 10h
Eight arrested over
#Egypt #Shiite killings http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2013/Jun-25/221542-eight-arrested-over-egypt-shiite-killings.ashx …
MarketWatch
@MarketWatch 10h
Dow industrials climb
115 points to 14,775.
MarketsTicker
@MarketsTicker 11h
Smithfield cuts ties to
Paula Deen http://on.mktw.net/11Krk46
Chantal Valéry
@chantalvalery 10h
today 6 more decisions
at #SCOTUS: #prop8 #DOMA voting rights, indian adoption and 2 others, but #gay
marriage likely to be for another day
Sanjoy Majumder
@BBCSanjoyM 11h
#uttarakhand An Indian
Air Force Mi-17 helicopter on a flood rescue mission has crashed killing all 8
people on board incl 3 civilians.
Dawn Media Group
@dawn_com 11h
Around the corner from
the GHQ, a market for stolen NATO goods | Featured | http://beta.dawn.com/news/1020684 #Pakistan
Agence
France-Presse @AFP 11h
Australian jailed for
disrupting Boat Race told to quit UK even though his British wife is pregnant
Dawn Media Group
@dawn_com 11h
#US envoy Dobbins
meets with PM #Nawaz Sharif http://beta.dawn.com/news/1020685 #Pakistan
MarketWatch
@MarketWatch 11h
The worst is yet to
come, says @MktwHulbert. There is still too much bullishness: http://on.mktw.net/15BOxGq
Dawn Media Group
@dawn_com 11h
#TTP supports
US-Afghan #Taliban talks in #Qatar http://beta.dawn.com/news/1020677
Bloomberg News
@BloombergNews 11h
German police stage
raids in suspected Islamist model-plane plot | http://bloom.bg/12g6xIs
Dawn Media Group
@dawn_com 11h
#HRCP urges security
forces in #Balochistan to ‘operate within Constitution’ http://beta.dawn.com/news/1020688 #Pakistan
Agence
France-Presse @AFP 11h
Eight coal miners
beaten to death in India
MarketWatch
@MarketWatch 11h
Home prices grow at
the fastest annual pace since 2006: S&P/Case-Shiller http://on.mktw.net/10QQ0N5
New York Times
World @nytimesworld 11h
China Brushes Aside
U.S. Warnings on Snowden http://nyti.ms/11KqG6F
Bloomberg News
@BloombergNews 11h
BREAKING: U.S. April
home prices rise 0.7% versus prior month, FHFA says
Zee News
@ZeeNews 11h
IAF chopper on rescue
mission goes missing in #Uttarakhand http://zeenews.india.com/news/nation/iaf-chopper-on-rescue-mission-goes-missing-in-uttarakhand_857696.html …
MarketWatch
@MarketWatch 11h
Stock futures remain
higher after home-price data
Prashant Rao
@prashantrao 11h
Supermarket workers
pick up the pieces after car bomb - my piece for @AFP about the aftermath of
the Warda attack: http://bit.ly/10QJuFY
MarketWatch
@MarketWatch 11h
Case-Shiller 20-city
home-price index rises 12.1%
MarketWatch
Economy @MKTWeconomics 11h
Core capital goods
orders have climbed for three straight months http://on.mktw.net/16wFw3Q
Reuters Top News
@Reuters 11h
Swiss court blocks
Credit Suisse data transfer to U.S http://reut.rs/10QNJRX
Ruth Mantell
@RuthMantell 11h
Coming up: April
Case-Shiller home prices http://on.mktw.net/17aF1xs
Haaretz.com
@haaretzcom 11h
#Turkey's PM Erdogan:
Protests delayed #Gaza visit http://htz.li/14uDvUs
MarketWatch
@MarketWatch 11h
Draghi: OMT is
"even more essential now" as we see potential policy shifts abroad http://on.mktw.net/1474vdN
Agence
France-Presse @AFP 11h
Taliban gunmen and
bombers using fake NATO identification attack Afghan presidential palace http://sg.news.yahoo.com/explosions-gunfire-heard-central-kabul-023831695.html …
MarketWatch
@MarketWatch 11h
Bearish bets on the
S&P 500 have dropped to 2.3% of all outstanding shares, marking the lowest
level in 6 years: http://on.mktw.net/1aandpG $SPX
Al Arabiya
English @AlArabiya_Eng 11h
#BreakingNews: Kerry
says the #Geneva2 talks are the best chance for a solution to the #Syria crisis
Reuters Top News
@Reuters 11h
Durable goods orders
beat forecasts, business spending plans up http://reut.rs/10QL1Mo
Al Arabiya
English @AlArabiya_Eng 11h
Kerry in #Saudi Arabia
to organize support for #Syria opposition http://ara.tv/mdxpr via
@AlArabiya_Eng
MarketWatch
@MarketWatch 11h
Commercial aircraft
orders surged 51% in May: http://on.mktw.net/15BLhLp
Egypt
Independent @EgyIndependent 11h
Court demands Morsy
reveal Rafah inquiry's findings http://dlvr.it/3Z2Wbq
Egypt Independent
@EgyIndependent 11h
U.S. embassy to close
on 30 June http://dlvr.it/3Z2Wch
Haaretz.com
@haaretzcom 11h
#Belgian gay couple
attacked after installing #mezuzah, lawyer claims http://htz.li/17aAKdc
Al Arabiya
English @AlArabiya_Eng 11h
#BreakingNews: #Saudi
FM says the involvement of Iranian Revolutionary Guards and Hezbollah in #Syria
continues to be a dangerous matter
MarketWatch
@MarketWatch 11h
U.S. durable-goods
orders climb 3.6% in May: http://on.mktw.net/1aasUnK
BBC News (World)
@BBCWorld 11h
Indian business
leaders warn UK plan to make some visitors pay £3,000 bond risks undermining
Anglo-Indian relations
Reuters World
@ReutersWorld 11h
Nelson Mandela: a
symbol of freedom and triumph over adversity http://reut.rs/Mandela
David Shukman
@davidshukmanbbc 11h
President Obama,
fairly quiet on #climate in his first term, is to outline a new strategy on
#carbon emissions: http://bbc.in/1aK2Nmd
MarketWatch
@MarketWatch 11h
Bernstein cuts Netflix
to underperform http://on.mktw.net/1aK3YSF $NFLX
Al Arabiya
English @AlArabiya_Eng 11h
#BreakingNews: #Saudi
says "cannot be silent" at Iran, Hezbollah involvement in #Syria
Reuters US News
@ReutersUS 11h
Could same-sex
marriage rulings come today? Live coverage of the U.S. Supreme Court starts
now: http://reut.rs/SCOTUS13 #prop8
#doma
Reuters Africa
@ReutersAfrica 11h
South African
presidency says #Mandela's condition remains unchanged.
Al Arabiya
English @AlArabiya_Eng 11h
#BreakingNews: #Saudi
FM says #Syria can only be considered an occupied land
Al Arabiya
English @AlArabiya_Eng 11h
#BreakingNews:
#Saudi foreign minister calls for clear resolution banning provision of
arms to Syrian regime. #Syria
Al Arabiya
English @AlArabiya_Eng 11h
#BreakingNews: #Saudi
FM says the kingdom calls on the international community to ban weapons being
sent to the #Syria regime
Al Arabiya
English @AlArabiya_Eng 12h
#BreakingNews: #Saudi
FM says the involvement of Hezbollah fighters in #Syria is dangerous
Al Arabiya
English @AlArabiya_Eng 12h
#BreakingNews: #Saudi
and #US foreign ministers begin joint press conference on #Syria.
New York Times
World @nytimesworld 12h
Russian and U.S.
Officials Return to Geneva for Talks on Syria http://nyti.ms/1aK2FTJ
The Daily Star
@DailyStarLeb 12h
#Brahimi sees #Syria
talks delay, appeals to big powers http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2013/Jun-25/221524-brahimi-us-russia-must-contain-syria-war-peace-talks-delayed.ashx …
The Daily Star
@DailyStarLeb 12h
9,000 Syrian refugees
left #Jordan for home in June: govt #Syria http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2013/Jun-25/221529-9000-syrian-refugees-left-jordan-for-home-in-june-govt.ashx …
Reuters Top News
@Reuters 12h
Obama, Turkey's
Erdogan discuss Turkish protests, Syria http://reut.rs/10QGBFj
Zee News
@ZeeNews 12h
2 UP cops suspended
for disputes over U'khand victim's bodies http://zeenews.india.com/news/uttarakhand/2-up-cops-suspended-for-disputes-over-u-khand-victim-s-bodies_857674.html …
MarketWatch
@MarketWatch 12h
After plunging by as
much as 5.8%, Chinese stocks staged a big recovery to finish the day down 0.2% http://on.mktw.net/11Kg2fY
Bloomberg News
@BloombergNews 12h
Two Fed presidents
emphasize stimulus to persist after QE taper | http://bloom.bg/14lW2C9
The Daily Star
@DailyStarLeb 12h
Gas cylinder blast
causes panic near #Tripoli school #Lebanon http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Local-News/2013/Jun-25/221526-gas-cylinder-blast-causes-panic-near-tripoli-school.ashx …
Reuters Top News
@Reuters 12h
Obama takes on power
plant emissions as part of climate plan http://reut.rs/1chFZZd
Reuters Top News
@Reuters 12h
U.S., Russia must
contain Syria war, peace talks delayed - Brahimi http://reut.rs/1chCJwW
New York Times
World @nytimesworld 12h
European Court Opinion
Favors Google in Privacy Battle http://nyti.ms/11KgkDE
Zee News
@ZeeNews 12h
#Uttarakhand:
Preparations on for mass cremation in Kedarnath http://zeenews.india.com/news/uttarakhand/uttarakhand-air-ops-halted-at-badrinath-hemkund-sahib-toll-822_857542.html …
BBC News (World)
@BBCWorld 13h
Homophobic attacks
reaching dangerous levels in sub-Saharan Africa - Amnesty International http://bbc.in/1aIS8bF via
@BBCAfrica
BBC News (World)
@BBCWorld 13h
Australian Prime
Minister Julia Gillard knits toy kangaroo for British royal baby
BBC News (World)
@BBCWorld 13h
US blocks sale of
$11.5m (£7.4m) Picasso painting at Italy's request, after fraud allegations http://bbc.in/146SpRU
The Daily Star
@DailyStarLeb 13h
Mere start of peace
talks not enough: #Israel PM #Palestine http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2013/Jun-25/221519-mere-start-of-peace-talks-not-enough-israel-pm.ashx …
Al Arabiya
English @AlArabiya_Eng 13h
#BreakingNews: Lakhdar
Brahimi says the recent violence in Lebanon's #Sidon is tied to the #Syria
conflict
Reuters Top News
@Reuters 13h
Suicide bombers target
Iraqi Turkmen, killing 8 http://reut.rs/1chv5m6
Al Arabiya
English @AlArabiya_Eng 13h
#Turkey welcomes
opening of new #EU membership talks http://ara.tv/2xydq via
@AlArabiya_Eng
Jim Roberts
@nycjim 13h
Atty. Gen. Holder was
personally involved in #Snowden extradition effort, but lacked leverage w/ Hong
Kong. http://reut.rs/14o8pxy
Al Arabiya
English @AlArabiya_Eng 13h
#BreakingNews: 10
killed in twin #Iraq suicide bombings: officials
BBC News (World)
@BBCWorld 13h
Workers at Beijing
factory prevent US boss from leaving amid pay dispute http://bbc.in/146QrRw
Al Arabiya
English @AlArabiya_Eng 13h
Excited Gazans await
return of #ArabIdol hero Mohammed Assaf http://ara.tv/6zmg3 via
@AlArabiya_Eng
Egypt
Independent @EgyIndependent 13h
8 arrested over
sectarian killing in Giza http://dlvr.it/3Z0zyT
Haaretz.com
@haaretzcom 13h
Report: U.S. group
tracking #Iran's possible sanctions violations http://htz.li/12mGQBJ
Dawn Media Group
@dawn_com 13h
#Snowden never entered
#Russia: foreign minister | Latest News | http://beta.dawn.com/news/1020678
Al Arabiya
English @AlArabiya_Eng 13h
Customer anger as
#HSBC shuts small business accounts in #UAE - http://english.alarabiya.net/en/business/banking-and-finance/2013/06/25/Customer-anger-as-HSBC-shuts-small-business-accounts-in-UAE.html …
BBC News (World)
@BBCWorld 14h
EU ministers back
German move to postpone fresh EU membership talks with Turkey for about four
months http://bbc.in/146NQHj
Reuters Top News
@Reuters 14h
Mystery girl to
testify in Trayvon Martin murder case http://reut.rs/1chptZ1
BBC Technology
@BBCTech 15h
Sony launches
waterproof giant phone http://bbc.in/136aEu0
Reuters Top News
@Reuters 14h
Exclusive: Samsung in
talks to settle EU antitrust case - sources http://reut.rs/10QlVgB
Al Arabiya
English @AlArabiya_Eng 14h
Bomb explodes in
eastern #Lebanon near #Syria http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2013/06/25/Bomb-explodes-in-eastern-Lebanon-near-Syria.html …
Egypt
Independent @EgyIndependent 14h
Lebanon faces tumult
after deadliest Syria-linked clashes http://dlvr.it/3Z0CCL
Al Arabiya
English @AlArabiya_Eng 14h
Fine wines flourishing
in #Morocco http://english.alarabiya.net/en/variety/2013/06/25/Fine-wines-flourishing-in-morocco.html …
Reuters Top News
@Reuters 14h
China dissident cites
Tiananmen in praising Taiwan democracy http://reut.rs/10Qijva
Agence
France-Presse @AFP 14h
Japan says it has no
intention of dropping its "purely scientific" whaling programme
Reuters Top News
@Reuters 14h
On trip to Africa,
Obama must play catch up http://reut.rs/1chiGOZ
Zee News
@ZeeNews 15h
Delhi Metro stations
in high disaster-prone zone: UN study
http://zeenews.india.com/news/delhi/delhi-metro-stations-in-high-disaster-prone-zone-un-study_857591.html …
RT now...
Agence
France-Presse @AFP 15h
'Password fatigue'
haunts Internet masses -- most web users regularly visit up to 20 sites that
require passwords
Al Arabiya
English @AlArabiya_Eng 15h
Tunisian army chief
retires amid criticism http://ara.tv/rr4pc via
@AlArabiya_Eng #Tunisia
Haaretz.com
@haaretzcom 15h
Convicted N.Y. child
molester Jesse Friedman was rightfully prosecuted, report concludes http://htz.li/10Qf5aV
Rima S.
Aboulmona @RimaSAboulmona 15h
#Sleiman ignores calls
for jihad against #Lebanese #Army. Stay tuned for details. http://www.dailystar.com.lb/
The Daily Star
@DailyStarLeb 15h
Roadside bomb explodes
near #Syria-#Lebanon border http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Politics/2013/Jun-25/221511-roadside-bomb-explodes-near-syria-lebanon-border.ashx …
Agence
France-Presse @AFP 15h
#BREAKING Foreign
minister denies Russia had any involvement in Edward Snowden travel plans, says
he didn't cross border into Russia
Al Arabiya
English @AlArabiya_Eng 15h
#Islamic #finance
lobby plans regional network http://ara.tv/8tyy9 #Bahrain #GCC
Al Arabiya
English @AlArabiya_Eng 15h
#Petrofac’s Ain Salah
project in #Algeria to restart soon http://ara.tv/4jmr2 #gas
Reuters Top News
@Reuters 15h
EU hopes for agreement
to delay Turkey membership talks http://reut.rs/10QdbXY
Reuters Top News
@Reuters 15h
Turkish police detain
20 over anti-government protests http://reut.rs/10QdRMI
Zee News
@ZeeNews 15h
Heavy rains in
#Mumbai; high tides forecast
http://zeenews.india.com/news/maharashtra/heavy-rains-in-mumbai-high-tides-forecast_857612.html …
RT now...
Al Arabiya
English @AlArabiya_Eng 15h
#South #Korea said to
pledge 15% cut in #Iran #oil #imports http://ara.tv/wdckf #energy
The Daily Star
@DailyStarLeb 15h
#Syria battles rage in
#Damascus, #Aleppo, activists say http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2013/Jun-25/221510-syria-battles-rage-in-damascus-aleppo-activists.ashx …
Haaretz.com
@haaretzcom 15h
French police arrest
six suspected of plotting terrorist attack http://htz.li/18cX0pZ #France
Agence
France-Presse @AFP 15h
#UPDATE China says the
claim it facilitated Edward Snowden's exit from Hong Kong is 'groundless'
Dawn Media Group
@dawn_com 15h
|INTERVIEW| Syed Ali
Shah Geelani: Pakistan's stability is of utmost importance to Kashmiris: http://dawn.com/news/1020464/interview-pakistans-stability-is-of-utmost-importance-to-kashmiris …
Al Arabiya
English @AlArabiya_Eng 16h
Opinion: Global #media
romances the rebellion in #Turkey, by columnist Abdallah Schleifer http://english.alarabiya.net/en/views/news/middle-east/2013/06/25/Global-media-romances-the-rebellion-in-Turkey.html …
Reuters Top News
@Reuters 16h
Jailed Kurdish rebel
leader presents peace process proposals http://reut.rs/10Q8IEt
Brooke Anderson
@Brookethenews 16h
#US #embassy in
#Lebanon issues new travel warning after clashes near #Sidon: http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Local-News/2013/Jun-25/221504-us-embassy-sends-warning-after-sidon-clashes.ashx#axzz2XCvtxEQO …
Phani Kumar
@MktwKumar 16h
What a day! #China
stocks end mildly lower, slashing the deep losses they suffered earlier in the
day
The Daily Star
@DailyStarLeb 16h
Lebanese Army raids
homes in hunt for #Assir supporters, #Lebanon http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Politics/2013/Jun-25/221505-army-detonates-bombs-left-behind-by-assir-fighters.ashx …
Zee News
@ZeeNews 16h
Evacuations will be
over in 72 hours: #Uttarakhand govt tells SC
The Daily Star
@DailyStarLeb 16h
#Lebanon faces threat
of chaos if #Cabinet not formed http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Politics/2013/Jun-25/221481-lebanon-faces-threat-of-chaos-if-cabinet-not-formed.ashx …
Reuters Top News
@Reuters 16h
Indian PM in rare
visit to Kashmir after attack on soldiers http://reut.rs/10Q5fGb
Agence
France-Presse @AFP 16h
#BREAKING: China says
US claims it facilitated Snowden exit are 'groundless'
Zee News
@ZeeNews 16h
US, India can lead
world in #education: John Kerry
The Daily Star
@DailyStarLeb 16h
#Army detonates #bombs
left behind by #Assir fighters #Lebanon http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Politics/2013/Jun-25/221505-army-detonates-bombs-left-behind-by-assir-fighters.ashx …
The Daily Star
@DailyStarLeb 16h
#Army’s iron fist in
#Sidon will serve stability #Lebanon http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Politics/2013/Jun-25/221478-armys-iron-fist-in-sidon-will-serve-stability.ashx …
The Daily Star
@DailyStarLeb 16h
#Lebanon risks missing
2.3 pct #GDP growth target http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Business/Lebanon/2013/Jun-25/221453-lebanon-risks-missing-23-pct-gdp-growth-target.ashx …
The Daily Star
@DailyStarLeb 16h
#Indonesia formally
apologizes for smoky haze http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/International/2013/Jun-24/221433-indonesia-formally-apologizes-for-smoky-haze.ashx?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter …
The Daily Star
@DailyStarLeb 16h
White House urges
#Russia to expel #Snowden to #US http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/International/2013/Jun-24/221400-us-should-not-expect-russia-to-expel-snowden-lawmaker.ashx?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter …
The Daily Star
@DailyStarLeb 16h
#Egypt tourism
minister back after #Luxor governor quits http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2013/Jun-24/221435-egypt-tourism-minister-back-after-luxor-governor-quits.ashx?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter …
The Daily Star
@DailyStarLeb 16h
#Turkey policeman
freed pending trial on protester's death http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2013/Jun-24/221434-turkey-policeman-freed-pending-trial-on-protesters-death.ashx?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter …
BBC News (World)
@BBCWorld 16h
Doing nothing was not
an option for #Brazil President Dilma Rousseff ahead of 2014 poll, says BBC's
Gary Duffy http://bbc.in/19xAbv6
The Daily Star
@DailyStarLeb 16h
#Italy minister
resigns over tax troubles http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/International/2013/Jun-24/221452-italy-minister-resigns-over-tax-troubles.ashx?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter …
The Daily Star
@DailyStarLeb 16h
At least 37 dead as
#CentralAfricanRepublic gold mine collapses http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/International/2013/Jun-24/221458-at-least-37-dead-as-central-african-republic-gold-mine-collapses.ashx?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter …
The Daily Star
@DailyStarLeb 17h
#Egypt's Shiite
killings raise alarm on hate speech http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2013/Jun-24/221460-egypts-shiite-killings-raise-alarm-on-hate-speech.ashx?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter …
The Daily Star
@DailyStarLeb 17h
#Brazil leader
#Rousseff meets core protest group http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/International/2013/Jun-24/221464-brazil-leader-meets-core-protest-group.ashx?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter …
The Daily Star
@DailyStarLeb 17h
#UN's #Ban urges
#Lebanon Army to back president #Sleiman http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Politics/2013/Jun-25/221495-uns-ban-urges-lebanon-army-to-back-president.ashx?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter …
BBC Wales News
@BBCWalesNews 17h
'Brutal, inhuman
business' - claim kidnappers demand thousands from African relatives in Wales http://bbc.in/11XsiZs pic.twitter.com/wCn8aEbIye
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Dawn Media Group
@dawn_com 17h
Taliban attack Afghan
presidential palace, CIA office http://beta.dawn.com/news/1020554
The Daily Star
@DailyStarLeb 17h
U.S. Embassy sends
warning after Sidon clashes: The U.S. Embassy in Beirut reiterates its travel
warning to al... http://bit.ly/1328NoU
Reuters Top News
@Reuters 17h
Qatar emir hands power
to son, no word on prime minister http://reut.rs/10PYJip
BBC News (World)
@BBCWorld 17h
Roadside bomb in
#Afghan province of Kandahar kills at least nine members of family http://bbc.in/18cM63E
MarketWatch
@MarketWatch 17h
Shanghai index ends
down 0.2% after volatile trade
MarketWatch
@MarketWatch 17h
Chinese shares erase
most of heavy intraday losses
Al Arabiya
English @AlArabiya_Eng 17h
#BreakingNews: The
#Saudi king and crown prince congratulate #Qatar's new emir. http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2013/06/25/Qatar-s-emir-announces-transfer-of-power-to-son-Sheikh-Tamim.html …
Al Arabiya
English @AlArabiya_Eng 17h
#Kerry heads to Saudi
Arabia in Gulf-backed push on #Syria http://ara.tv/mdxpr via
@AlArabiya_Eng
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