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This post is a week late but it’s been in my head all week. Last week our Mother’s Day Sacrament meeting was based on Helaman’s Stripling Warrior’s scripture about, “their mother’s taught them if they did not doubt God would deliver them…” Every speaker read the quote to us verbatim. Only one of the three talks really opened up about their relationship with their mother. (It was the youth talk ironically, and she had a tough life, but that’s a different topic). However the final talk was by a brother. It was for the most part traditional, bland, vague, etc. But his closing caught me. He wrapped it up with the following words, “I know the church is true. I know that I have a Father and Mother in Heaven who are rooting for me and pulling for me. I am glad they gave me this chance to come to earth.” My husband who was busy studying his ipad and I looked at each other. We couldn’t believe it, a traditional member had invoked Heavenly Mother on Mother’s Day. It was a bell ringer and well worth the previous hour to hear it. I shared this in another thread, but in the benediction on Mother’s Day in my ward a former Bishop said: Quote:Heavenly Father, we speak with thee every day, and we look forward to the day when we can renew our relationship with Heavenly Mother.
I’m wondering, if we prayed to our Heavenly Mother would our prayers be wasted? Mike from Milton.
Mike wrote:I’m wondering, if we prayed to our Heavenly Mother would our prayers be wasted?
I don’t think they would be wasted, but it may miss the point of prayer.I have felt, many times, a spiritual presence when praying and meditating. At times, I feel that I have made conscious contact with that presence, in a way that I have been able to ask questions, and have answers come articulately and immediately to my mind and heart.
One day I asked in prayer “how does this work”, and i came to understand, perhaps, that the spirit that guides me operates in the name of god/christ, and therefore operates anonymously. i have heard, somewhere, that anonymity is a spiritual foundation that ever reminds us to put principles before personalities. You may have heard the same thing, iirc.
When I realize that god is anyone who acts in harmony with the spirit to do god’s will for another person, then the service itself is an act of god. to personalize that service is to undeify the act. if i serve in the name of god, but do it for my own “name”, then it is no longer in the name of god.
I feel that whomever Heavenly Mother is, She is one with god and therefore god–no less than her male counterpart. I suppose we personalize Heavenly Father, but we don’t need to: it is simply a label that the male patriarchy has put on god. for that reason, i tend to pray to god rather than to HF, the few times i use words in prayer.
As wayfarer said, I believe no prayer is wasted if it is an attempt to connect to the divine. Great Spirit, the Virgin Mary, Heavenly Father, God, Buddha, Jehovah . . . whatever name is used is that person’s understanding of the divine. It’s the exact same thing, when the motivation is sincere – and when meditation is used to try to tap into the “divine” inside and/or outside of us individually. I don’t get hung up on names. Read the following post for an example of why:
“Why I Like the Jewish Custom of Not Using God’s Name”( http://thingsofmysoul.blogspot.com/2011/12/why-i-like-jewish-custom-of-not-using.html Quote:We couldn’t believe it, a traditional member had invoked Heavenly Mother on Mother’s Day. It was a bell ringer and well worth the previous hour to hear it.
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