Breaking My Heart

I sincerely hope you will take the time to keep up-to-date on what is happening to our brother's, sister's and youth of the church in California. It is breaking my heart. Click here to read.

Feeling Grateful For Support

Yesterday while talking to a dear cousin in Oregon who is a member of a different church than I am, she told me how thankful she was for all the Mormon help in passing legislation to protect marriage and recognized how we were being slandered. That made me feel very good and thankful. Here's a video by another church "sticking up for us" also. And you might want to check out this to see what other's not of our faith are saying about us....don't brace yourselves, it's good.

Bigotry Against Mormons

Catholic Bishop Decries Religious Bigotry Against Mormons

SACRAMENTO 7 November 2008 (This news release was issued by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sacramento) The following statement was released today by Bishop William Weigand, head of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sacramento and former Bishop of Salt Lake City, in response to attacks on (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) for supporting California’s Proposition 8, defending the traditional definition of marriage:
“Catholics stand in solidarity with our Mormon brothers and sisters in support of traditional marriage — the union of one man and one woman — that has been the major building block of Western Civilization for millennia.
“The ProtectMarriage coalition, which led the successful campaign to pass Proposition 8, was an historic alliance of people from every faith and ethnicity. LDS were included — but so were Catholics and Jews, Evangelicals and Orthodox, African-Americans and Latinos, Asians and Anglos.
“Bigoted attacks on Mormons for the part they played in our coalition are shameful and ignore the reality that Mormon voters were only a small part of the groundswell that supported Proposition 8.
“As the former bishop of the Diocese of Salt Lake City, I can attest to the fact that followers of the Mormon faith are a good and generous people with a long history of commitment to family and giving to community causes.
“I personally decry the bigotry recently exhibited towards the members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — coming from the opponents of Proposition 8, who ironically, have called those of us supporting traditional marriage intolerant.
“I call upon the supporters of same-sex marriage to live by their own words — and to refrain from discrimination against religion and to exercise tolerance for those who differ from them. I call upon them to accept the will of the people of California in the passage of Proposition 8.”
SOURCE: Roman Catholic Diocese of Sacramento

I Am Empathetic!

Did you expect that recipe for Apple Crisp with dehydrated apples? I know, I'm sorry. I've spent so much time putting together a most important post over at Snickerdoodles again.


Begging you to please go to that blog and read/watch. Just click on Snickerdoodles.

Thank you. Really, I mean it. This is so serious. Do you know that!

NO BEARS ARE OUT TONIGHT

One of my kiddos recently commented that my blog post's sure are lengthy. They were referring to a poem about flour sacks at my original blog SNICKERDOODLES . They are right. Occasionally there is more than just a photo or two with a little paragraph on each. Oh the case again. But you see, this is really so worth the maybe 5 minutes you will spend reading here. And the benefits potentially are great.

I just read the article NO BEARS ARE OUT TONIGHT on Meridian Magazine by Kimberli Pelo Robinson. . . "Having the priesthood in a home surrounds a family with a sense of security that is available no other way". So much centered on having a righteous priesthood holder/father in your home, protecting the family, working hard to enable the mother to stay home and nurture children and truly make a home. What a huge, huge blessing. It was such a good use of my time to read and I hardily pass it along with recommendation to you.
Photo above: A family playing the game No Bears Are Out Tonight and the Grandpa turned out to be the (bear.)

To read this great article, and I hope you do, click on No Bears Are Out Tonight.

Marri.age Amendme.nt

Can't tell you just how important it is that Pro.position 102 passes. If you haven't made up your mind on this please, please watch this. If you are voting to make marr.iage between 1 man and 1 woman the constitu.tional la.w please watch also. Thank you!

And teaching this in schools is just one of the consequences of this amendment failing. Churches would be forced to marry same-sex couples against their beliefs or be sued and/or lose tax exemption. Charitable organizations, certain adoption agencies, and groups like the Boy Scouts of America that do tremendous good in our society will be forced to change their policies or close down... It's started in MA. It's at our doors.

The Divine Institution of Marriage

Click here to read something we must not pass by. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is joining with many other churches to help pass legislation defining marriage as being between 1 man and 1 woman. This lengthy statement clarifies much and is so worth your time to read. Thanks.