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Saturday, June 12, 2021

Love is not to say, acceptance or endorsement, but it is to say inclusion and not ostracism

It is important that their be love and that their be hope,  Love is not to say, acceptance or endorsement, but it is to say inclusion and not ostracism. We want to be with you and work together....We want people to feel that they have a home here that we have much much more in common than anything that is different about us.  

Acceptancethe action or process of being received as adequate or suitable, typically to be admitted into a group.

Endorsementan act of giving one's public approval or support to someone or something.

Ostracismexclusion from a society or group.

Inclusionthe action or state of including or of being included within a group or structure


D. Todd Christofferson, Library->Life Help->Same-Sex Attraction->Member Stories Retrieved 6/12/2021

Saturday, June 5, 2021

My Mother

No love in all the world can equal the love of a true mother. … I have felt sometimes, how could even the Father love his children more than my mother loved her children? It was life to me; it was strength; it was encouragement; it was love that begat love or liking in myself. I knew she loved me with all her heart. She loved her children with all her soul. She would toil and labor and sacrifice herself day and night, for the temporal comforts and blessings that she could meagerly give, through the results of her own labors, to her children. There was no sacrifice of self—of her own time, of her leisure or pleasure, or opportunities for rest—that was considered for a moment, when it was compared with her duty and her love to her children.

Joseph F. Smith
Teachings of Presidents