Feb Week 1 Linds

Mon 2/1

Mark 8:11-13 when I demand answers in the way I want instead of being humble and open to His will, am I any different than the Sadducees? 

Mark 8:21 how often do we experience miracles and not understand them or let them sink into our hearts? 

Mark 8:23-25 why does the Savior heal this man "in stages?" It's certainly not because He couldn't have done it all at once. I think it's because sometimes in order for our benefit healing takes a lot longer than we want. If He had healed this blind man all at once, maybe he wouldn't have been acclimated to the light and it would have been damaging? Or maybe it was a test of this man's faith? 

Matt 16:15 "but whom say Ye that I am?" It doesn't matter what we know about Christ historically; it only matters if we have a personal relationship with Him. Christ's interrogation about who Peter thinks He is vs who the world thinks He is shows that we will be accountable for our own personal experiences with the Savior. Am I making time for Him? How can I be more like Him today?

Tues 2/3
 And the Greatest of these is Love- President Hinckley (BYU Speech)
 

Wed 2/4
10 Keys to Successful Dating and Marriage Relationships Hugh W Pinnock (BYU Speech)
-Put the same amount of work into your marriages that you to accomplishing other

-find someone with a "wholesome respect for regulations" (obedience), no sexual experiences, and with built-in characteristics you want (don't expect to change him/her)

-good marriages are not built on worldly advice but on gospel principles

1. Belief in eternal marriage

2. Spirituality "To really succeed, your marriages must be Christ-centered." Rely on personal revelation; righteous exercise of the Priesthood; true charity as motivation.

3.  Communication "Do not feel that an intense disagreement in your dating procedure or eventually in your marriage indicates that it cannot succeed. If we are to really communicate, we must be honest when we disagree. We must express hurts and let our feelings show."

 

"If we can just acknowledge our differences in mature ways, then we will realize that our dating procedure is okay or our marriages eventually will be all right. Often what happens is that we have simply failed to communicate. And differences can be worked out without jeopardizing a relationship. As we communicate, brothers and sisters—may I say this quickly—let us first communicate about feelings, those throbbings from within, and then we can be concerned with the historical aspects of communication, where we have been and what we have seen. But let us communicate our feelings first. And if something just doesn’t feel quite right—leaves you with kind of an uncomfortable feeling—that needs to be said to your date or to your husband or wife." 

 

4. Kindness- never make your date/spouse object of public or private mockery. Respect them.

5. Trust- help your spouse fulfill their full potential; do not smother with restrictions

-same thing goes for your future children: "[Giving children] gobs of freedom, almost beyond logic sometimes, they will grow in precious ways that will give them the confidence to do what needs to be done." How does this freedom give children the ability to succeed and build confidence?

 

"[The best couples] are interested in one another, and yet they set each other free to grow and mature—never free to flirt, but free to take on new challenges and to pursue new interests."

6. Paying compliments- "Every husband needs a wife who will build him up, and every wife needs a husband to honor and to respect her." It's not my responsibility to keep my husband/spouse humble. Give sincere compliments. 

-treat your relationship as fragile because it is; we will become the persons we believe people think we are (compliments)

7.  Talking openly - don't ever resort to silent treatment

8. Apologizing and forgetting- godly sorrow in repentance and forgiveness

9. Confiding only in Bishop- don't share struggles with friends/family

10. Having fun- maintain a joyful, happy childlike friendship

 Thurs 2/5
How do I Love Thee? Jeffrey R. Holland (BYU Speech)
 

Fri 2/6 

Yielding our hearts to God Neill F Marriott (GC 2015)

Sat 2/7 

Agency and Love in Marriage