This week’s talk
was given towards the end of WWII – however with the ‘war’ currently on-going
throughout the world today. Many definitions can be given for the word ‘war’ –
however, it should be reasonable to think it is any time when one lives in fear
for themselves or their loved ones. One need not be facing tanks or aerial
bombing – but simply be afraid to go out in the evening – to have our minds and
hearing subjected to the filth distributed to the world on an ever increasing
amount. Shootings are commonplace in many of our major urban areas – crime is
at an all-time high - immorality
constantly is becoming worse. Marriage and the family is disappearing –
self-reliance is being replaced by an entitled population. War is all around us
– being waged by those who refuse to acknowledge the rights of others for the
power, lusts, dominion of the few (even those who run our government in the
US).
May we put our
lives in order – prayer – obedience – service – love of the pure righteous type
– learning and understanding the Law of God – and being committed to the
Covenants we made in the pre-existence (before coming to this earth) – thus to
return to Heavenly Father - c
Annual Christmas
Greeting December 16 1944
FROM THE
FIRST PRESIDENCY As the day nears, made holy by tradition as the anniversary of the birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, we again give to all the Saints in whatever land they are, our greetings, our blessings, and our love in the fellowship of the gospel of Christ. May the Lord be with you always.
In this terrible hour of earthwide woe, misery, and death, with their weight of sorrow and grief that pour in upon the households of the people, we turn to the Lord as the source of the only true solace to aching hearts and weary souls. For He said to men of all times, "Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest."
This is an hour of prayer.
Obedient
to the occasion we especially send to you mothers who have lost your sons, to
you wives whose husbands have been killed, to you orphans born of the slaughter
of war-in whatever land you live and on whatever side your departed loved ones
fought-the sympathy and sorrow of our hearts, and we humbly pray our Heavenly
Father to send you comfort and an early surcease of your grief. With deep
feelings of compassion we utter a like prayer to Him that He will sustain and
enhearten you who are crippled and maimed, that He will close and make whole
the wounds of you who are hurt, that He will heal you who are sorely racked
with pain and disease. We pray our Heavenly Father to send to each and all of
you, whoever and wherever you are, you who mourn and you who are plagued with
affliction, the healing influence of His Spirit, to bestow upon you richly of
His love and His mercy, that you may be made every whit whole in mind and body
and spirit, even as in His wisdom shall seem best for the welfare of your
souls.
We
pray for the men and women now in the service of their country, in whatever
land they serve, that they who are sinful may forsake their sins and that all
may come to walk in paths of righteousness so that all may have claim upon the
blessings and mercies of the Lord. We pray that all may so live that the
comforting influence of His Spirit may be their constant companion even in
their darkest hours of dread and awful experiences, to buoy them up, to help
them to know as they suffer in the depths born of evil, that God is good and
kind and loving, and that mankind bring, even upon themselves, through their
wickedness the cruel afflictions that are poured out upon them.
We
ask our Heavenly Father to bless those of us who are at home, who have our work
to do to carry on in this world cataclysm, and especially those of us, the
fathers and mothers, whose sons still fight in the battle lines of the world,
and the wives amongst us whose husbands fight alongside those sons in their
danger and hardship and sacrifice, and the children over whom the threat of
orphanage hangs so heavy-we humbly pray Him to bless all and each of them that
in the day-by-day dread that is always with them lest ill news shall come, they
may feel near to Him, feel the tenderness of His mercy, and the warmth of His
love.
“Enduring War”
cji
12/16/13
From the pre-existence
continuing generations
and now in our lifetimes
war is man’s excuse
it is woman’s excuse
rather than happiness
to return to Father
choosing war instead
arguing contention
disregard for rights
destroying God’s law
thus we’re enduring war
holding fast to truth
eternal truth eternally
seeking to be obedient
while enduring war
which the worldly
seek as their excuse
to justify wickedness
continuing generations
till the Second Coming!
Copyright © 2013 – cji
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