Find JOY in the JOURNEY!: Christmas Eve

Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Christmas Eve

Every year on Christmas Eve we let the kids open one present which is the traditional "new pajamas". After that we read Luke 2. This is such a special time of year which I look forward too. This year was a little more special than most because I am pregnant and can actually put myself in Mary's shoes with carrying a special Child of God! Her situation was of course the most special because she was carrying the Savior, Jesus Christ. I feel very humbled at this time to be carrying a child once again. I know Heavenly Father loves me so much & this sweet baby girl who will join our family in January.

Milk & chocolate covered pretzels for Santa this year...of course Rylan couldn't forget to feed the reindeer some carrots!

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"Parents who have surrendered the sweetest and smallest flowers from the family's garden need to remember our Heavenly Father. He has promised a special reward to those who now suffer in silence, who spend long days and longer nights through their trying times of bereavement. Our Creator has promised glory. He said, "For after much tribulation come the blessings. Wherefore the day cometh that ye shall be crowned with much glory; the hour is not yet, but nigh at hand." (D&C 58:4) That promised glory includes the blessing of reunion with each child who has left the family circle to help surviving members of the family to draw nearer to God. Those children still live and are a heritage to the Lord."
Russell M. Nelson

President John Taylor once said: "that the best explanation he could offer why so many little children among the Saints were called away, notwithstanding the great faith and power of the priesthood exercised to keep them here, was that they were bright and noble spirits who held important positions in the kingdom of God in the spirit world, from which they could not long be spared., They were given brief furloughs, long enough to come to earth, take upon themselves bodies of flesh and bone that they might be prepared for a resurrection to a kingdom of glory; and after a short experience in mortality were called back to resume important labors in a higher sphere."

Joseph F. Smith said:"Joseph Smith taught the doctrine that the infant child that was laid away in death would come up in the resurrection as a child; and pointing to the mother of a lifeless child, he said to her: ' You will have the joy, the pleasure, and satisfaction of nurturing this child, after its resurrection, until it reaches the full stature of its spirit.' There is restitution, there is growth, there is development, after the resurrection from death. I love this truth. It speaks volume of happiness, of joy and gratitude to my soul. Thank the Lord he has revealed these principles to us."