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@JamesBallou @kateiswell This is the answer! People are always wondering how close to the boundary they can get instead of how close to God they can get. Thanks for those words of wisdom.

@kateiswell My wonderful mother in law gave me volumes of wonderful wisdom. One area she emphasized was getting to the point where obedience ceases to be an irritant. Once you are there your mind and heart are open to the wonders of the Kingdom.

Does this woman have a point? #Garments #LDS

@2Sticks1Nation This is so cool! Unfortunately it’s pretty useless for me if it’s exclusive to the website.

I came across this today on the Church’s website. It is not yet available on the Gospel Library app. When signed in, you can now create what is called study sets. What is Study Sets? “Creating a new study set provides the same experience as starting a new paper copy of the Book of Mormon or Bible, but digitally and across all content in the Gospel Library. And just like you can return to an old set of paper scriptures, you can quickly switch between sets to access your old highlights and notes. Study Sets allows you to have a fresh start to your highlights and notes so you can focus on a specific topic or a new year of study.” churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptur… @Ch_JesusChrist

@Crondog78 @Seth_1 Absolutely! But there is also a stewardship of revelation. I cannot receive revelation on your behalf, but i can for my children. However, i can receive revelation to be a friend to you. A bishop is a steward over his congregation and can receive revelation on its behalf.

@Seth_1 Bishops don’t receive revelation for their wards. Good men/women with sincere hearts who want to help and serve people receive inspiration to help others. God blesses us through others. Grandmas, grandpas, parents, friends, spouses, bosses, strangers. God works thru all

Wow. You can’t tell me Bishops don’t receive revelation for their ward. They 💯 do. What a cool experience!

This is the most prevalent and most effective anti-natal propaganda that exists. And it is absolutely false. Yes, children cost money. But it’s way less than you think. And you will change your spending choices to meet those needs. Yes, you can afford a child!!!

People say you have to sacrifice to homeschool... thats true. You also sacrifice when you send your kids to "public" school. So the question is not "whether you sacrifice." It's "what you sacrifice."

1. Get married. 2. Have kids. 3. Don't let the government educate them for you. We win in one generation.

This oddly hit me in the feels. What it was like to be Mormon in the 90s:

@JeanineElsholz This is my favorite scripture. It has given me so much peace as an anxious child and now as an adult with endless challenges. What a wonderful talk by Elder Holland, thank you!

In the words of Jeffrey R. Holland— “The Lord has probably spoken enough “comforting words” to supply the whole universe, it would seem, and yet we see all around us unhappy Latter-day Saints, worried Latter-day Saints, and gloomy Latter-day Saints into whose troubled hearts not one of these innumerable consoling words seems to be allowed to enter. Consider, for example, the Savior’s benediction upon his disciples even as he moved toward the pain and agony of Gethsemane and Calvary. On that very night, the night of the greatest suffering the world has ever known or ever will know, he said, “Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you. . . . Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid” (John 14:27). I submit to you that may be one of the Savior’s commandments that is, even in the hearts of otherwise faithful Latter-day Saints, almost universally DISOBEYED; and yet I wonder whether our resistance to this invitation could be any more grievous to the Lord’s merciful heart. I am convinced that none of us can appreciate how deeply it wounds the loving heart of the Savior of the world when he finds that his people do not feel CONFIDENT in his care or SECURE in his hands or trust in his commandments. Just because God is God, just because Christ is Christ, they cannot do other than care for us and bless us and help us if we will but COME UNTO THEM, approaching their throne of grace in meekness and lowliness of heart. They can’t help but bless us. They have to. It is their nature. That is why Joseph Smith gave those lectures on faith, so we would understand the nature of godliness and in the process have enough confidence to come unto Christ and FIND PEACE to our souls. There is not a single loophole or curveball or open trench to fall into for the man or woman who walks the path that Christ walks. When he says, “Come, follow me”, he means that he knows where the quicksand is and where the thorns are and the best way to handle the slippery slope near the summit of our personal mountains. He knows it all, and he knows the way. HE IS THE WAY! Once we have come unto Christ and found the miracle of his “COVENANT OF PEACE,” I think we are under obligation to help others do so, just as Paul said in that verse to the Corinthians—to live as much like he lived as we possibly can and to do as much of what he did in order that others may walk in this same PEACE and have this same reassurance. Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God. This is his true and living Church. He wishes us to come unto him, to follow him, to be comforted by him. Then he wishes us to give comfort to others. However halting our steps are toward him—though they shouldn’t be halting at all—his steps are NEVER halting toward us. May we have enough faith to ACCEPT the goodness of God and the mercy of his Only Begotten Son. May we come unto him and his gospel and BE HEALED. And may we do more to heal others in the process. When the storms of life make this difficult, may we still follow his bidding to “come,” keeping our eye FIXED ON HIM forever and single to his glory. In doing so we too will walk triumphantly over the swelling waves of life’s difficulties and remain unterrified amid ANY rising winds of despair. I pray we will hear this very night that sweet utterance from the Savior of the world: “Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden. . . . And ye shall find rest unto your souls— BE OF GOOD CHEER; it is I; be not afraid!” BYU Devotional, March 1997 #SaintsOnX

@Tanyaelisabeth You’re one of my favorite accounts on x because of posts like this. Thank you

When you don’t have children, it’s truly impossible to understand what it feels like to have children, it’s hard to understand the deep desire to give everything in us to a small little child the second you know of their existence, but trust me when I say that if you live your life out planning to be a parent, planning on having children you will never regret it. We now spend our lives planning for ourselves, planning for our needs and wants, living life in a self ordained fashion, but this has led to many problems. We aren’t planning on living on one income anymore We aren’t planning on staying home with our children We aren’t planning on uncommon sources of income so that we may stay home or work from home Much of our adult plans don’t start with the assumption or framing that children will come, and when they do come we are surprised, we are shocked at how much our world stops revolving around ourselves. So if I can leave you with one thing, it is this, plan your life around your children, even before you have them.

Family Studies showed % w/ children by ideology. But it understates the gap. Mean children captures both who has kids AND how many. 2020s, ages 25-35: Men: Con 1.06 vs Lib 0.35 Women: Con 1.67 vs Lib 0.87

@Grandpa_Joes_X @Zion_GPT @SocialistMormon Have you ever read two news stories written in 2 completely different ways? This couple isn’t sinning, but the way the message was worded embodied the concerning things the OP mentioned. It could have emphasized God’s plan more instead of their own plan for example.

@Zion_GPT @SocialistMormon Dude! The messaging of the post IS the couple!! You can't separate the couple from their own story!!!!

For the kids in the back… Here is a breakdown of what was awesome and not so awesome about “the post”. The awesome and aligned: • Supporting a spouse • Sacrifice in marriage • Encouraging each other in difficult seasons • Equal partnership in marriage Not so awesome, and very fuzzy: • It implies there is no revealed pattern for family life, when prophets teach there is a divine pattern for marriage and family. • It treats family as something a couple can define as sacred on their own terms, rather than something ordered by God’s plan and covenant law. • It suggests that sincere love and support are basically the main measure, while leaving out obedience, covenant faithfulness, and divine responsibilities. • It blurs the difference between equal partnership and role relativism. The Church teaches equal partnership, but not that husbands and wives simply invent family order however they wish. • “There’s not one right way” can imply that all family models are equally valid before God, which is not what the Family Proclamation teaches. • It centers “my path,” “her dream,” and “our version” in a way that can sound more like modern self-definition than submission to the Lord’s revealed order.

Abortion has a far greater impact than just a “personal medical choice between a woman and her doctor”, my brother or sister they were a real person, a real human, they shared the same parents as me, they were part of me, part of our entire family. Learning about my mothers abortion also made me so confused as to why was I allowed to exist and live? Why did she make the choice to allow me to live and yet did not allow my sibling the same right? Why me and not them? You say you love me but had I come at another time would you have decided to not have me? How can you love someone when you can so easily decide if they live or die? How can you truly love a child if you are willing to live without them, and not only that, be the reason they die?

With the tithing discourse online surrounding the LDS church I can't help but think about when Elder Bednar spoke at ASU. He was asked why we haven't received more scripture or teachings. He said, “Do you think I want to keep teaching about tithing or the law of chastity? I would love to share more things with you, but until you listen to what we are teaching, now we cannot share more with you.” If we can't figure out or follow the simple stuff like tithing we won't receive more of the blessings and truths God has in store for us. Tithing is not about the money. It is about faith. And it is not a new principle. Malachi 3:10 says, "Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it." Those sound like blessings I'd love to qualify for! I also love the principle of tithing because it is one of the commandments we can obey perfectly. Most commandments are much harder to be consistent at. I know the Gospel is not about checklists, but it does feel good to know I have at least one commandment down 😅 Hope you are seeing the blessings of tithing too!

I do not want to raise tamed boys. I want to raise moral boys. There is a difference. To mother boys is to be one of the first voices that tells them what their strength is for, and so I must learn. Every mother of sons faces a difficult decision: Do I shape them to fit the world as it is, or do I raise them to reshape the world as it ought to be? There is a wildness in boys that is not a flaw of creation but a part of it. A gift given by God Himself. A desire to run, to chase, to build, to break, to defend, to explore the unknown and come home covered in dust as if they had conquered the world. If we kill their spirits for the sake of convenience, for quiet classrooms and tidy living rooms, we may win temporary peace, but the cost is at the expense of a future man. And this truth is prevalent all around us.

As a woman in the church I just wish the church would ask more of women. Ask us to sacrifice our desires to better follow the gospel. Ask us to follow modesty guidelines. Ask us to behave more meekly and to submit to divine authority. Ask us to repent and do better. This is the problem a lot of women I know have with relief society. So often it’s a feel-good message about self-worth. That’s important too IF it comes along with asking us to sacrifice & repent! Im tired of hearing “women are so much better than men” and “men only get the priesthood because they suck, while women are inherently perfect creatures.” I’m just tired of being coddled like a special snowflake that will wither with a bit of criticism. CRITICIZE ME! I AM NOT AT ALL WHERE I NEED TO BE! I NEED TO BE BETTER!

US fertility reached 1.57 last year, the lowest ever recorded, and the WSJ explanation is "uncertainty about finances, relationship stability, and the political climate" my great grandma had eleven children during the second world war, in a country being bombed, in a house with no running water, on rations. poor people have always had kids. the poorest people on earth right now still have kids and the financial excuse is a story we tell ourselves because it makes us feel good and the real one is unbearable the real mechanism is that we got rich enough to redefine children as an expense instead of the point. somewhere in the last fifty years the cultural goal inverted and a child stopped being what life is for and became a line item competing with the lifestyle. once you frame it that way the math never works, because the math isnt supposed to work. that's the point we are living in the richest moment in human history and we decided to use the surplus to buy ourselves out of the future. the most prosperous civilization that has ever existed is committing demographic suicide at the altar of personal optimization and comfort, and the official line is that we cant afford it the birthrate is a lagging indicator of a civilization that forgot why it was alive

Hot take that’s actually historically accurate: Women have ALWAYS worked. Every culture. Every era. Every economic system. The difference? It used to be home-based and family-integrated. You didn’t surrender your children to an institution, fight traffic, and spend 9 hours under fluorescent lights. “Women shouldn’t work” isn’t traditional. It’s not even historical. It’s a myth. The real conversation we should be having: why did we build a society where thriving economically requires severing family bonds and why do we call that progress?