We are the Offspring of God (July 29, 2023)

 I have an 11-year-old girl who has long, beautiful blonde hair.

Who, as it turns out, HATES brushing that long, beautiful blonde hair.

When she FINALLY gives in, it’s usually a tangled mess of horrors & she comes to me begging me to brush it all out for her. It’s SUCH A FUN TIME!! 😆

Well, this week she & her friends found her old “Bedazzler” & decided it would be cool to bedazzle her hair! Yep!

When Bedazzling Goes Wrong😂

She kindly asked me to help her get those tiny, sticky jewels out. Which I did, one by one!

During this painstaking task, she exclaimed, “THIS is why there are moms!”

Haha, yep, for untangling & de-jeweling hair!

When Paul found an altar in Athens that said, “TO THE UNKNOWN GOD,” he was like, back up the trolley, these people need to know that we DO KNOW GOD! He created us! He created the earth! He sent us here! He wants us to seek Him! Because “he be not far from every one of us” (Acts 17:27) ❤️

And then this truth bomb: “For in him we live, & move, & have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.” (28)

“We are the offspring of God” (29)

Pres. Nelson said, “I believe that if the Lord were speaking to you directly tonight, the first thing He would make sure you understand is your true identity. My dear friends, you are literally spirit children of God…
I fear that you may have heard this truth so often that it sounds more like a slogan than divine truth. And yet, the way you think about who you really are affects almost every decision you will ever make.”

How does knowing I’m a child of God affect me?

It is everything!

I know I existed before. I know there’s a beautiful bigger picture. I know I’m never alone. I know my divine worth & that I matter. I know everyone else has divine worth. I know my life has purpose & I can become something greater than what I can comprehend. I know I have access to a power beyond my own.

And I know when my life is a tangled knot or if I, ya know, mistakenly bejewel myself, I have someone who loves me unconditionally & will help me smooth things out again.

THIS is why we have Heavenly Parents.

This is why we must remember: we ARE their children.