Part 2

My thoughts on Sister Beck's talk "What Latter-day Saint Women do Best: Standing Strong and Immovable" continued.

AMEN!
“They can and should do families better than anyone else.”
I think this statement goes along with her Sunday afternoon talk, but I have to wait to talk about that one ~smile~

Again I’m going to pick three of her nine points.
4. maintain strong marriages. As we know Satan is working over, over time trying to destroy the foundation of families and is doing a fabulous job! You just need to go through the grocery store check out stand to see how he is doing it. Two things I observe when I go through the line. 1. Women are NEVER thin enough, fat enough, pretty enough, nice enough, mean enough, ugly enough, rough enough, gentle enough, etc, etc. to hold on to “their man.” 2. Marriage is an outdated practice and there is no sanctity in it. I could quote headlines here, but I won’t. It doesn’t matter if we are married or not, supporting and sustaining the idea of marriage is what we must do. I know of many marriages that are broken and that is sad, but those that I’m intimately connected with all have very good reasons to be broken. So I support the institute of marriage. I also try to strengthen my own marriage, which at times can be hard. I just gave the RS lesson on marriage and it seemed that when we broke down the basic view of marriage from the world’s point of view the main cause was SELFISHNESS and on the Lord’s side of the line was UNSELFISHNESS. Again, I was called to repentance. I’m not a unselfish person, quite the opposite. I’m very selfish and that has to change.
6. express love for and nurture family members. It seems that is all I do all day long, but I’m not doing it with 100% love. “it’s my job!” is not longer good enough for me. “I do it because I love you.” Will have to be the better statement for me. I need to get back to the basic in my home. I have to take seriously my role in the home. I do think I’m kind of lazy in this fashion and take the easy way out and that needs to change.
7. accept responsibility to prepare a righteous rising generation. It is MY responsibility to raise my children. Not the scout masters, not the primary teacher. NO it is MINE! I hope I NEVER forget that. It is my responsibility to be passing along the gospel with a back up of the ward members who are leaders and guides to my children.

“…raising your voice in defense of the doctrine of the family is critical to the strength of families the world over.” (See why I started with “amen”?)

She talks about how we are to defend the divine role of women in the world and how we are bombarded with false messages. AMEN to that one too! I could put what I wrote about the marriage right her as well. I’m not good enough, I’m not bad enough and on and on and on. Satan is very effective in his pulling down women and with her comes the family.

I love how she tells us the only place to learn this is “in this Church and its doctrines.” You sure aren’t going to find it in the latest self-help books, mid-day tv shows or other media outlets.
“Women find true happiness when they understand and delight in their unique role within the plan of salvation.”
Well, if that is where I should find it then I had better start BEING happy. I bet it is because I haven’t done what she says “embrace those roles with all [my] heart.”
“Families mean work, but they are our great work—and we are not afraid of work.”

Once again I’m called to repentance.