It's good to finally be back with you for a time. I've had
quite a month and I'm sure your January was busy as well.
As we take time to discuss Women from the Scriptures this year
in our Presidency lessons; I hope we will take time to emulate the lessons
we can learn from these women. Perhaps we can take time to reflect how to
improve our lives and seek to make our lives more in keeping with the gospel
and find peace amid all the busy of our lives.
This month I would like us to reflect upon the first
woman in the scriptures; "Eve the Mother of all Living." I began
thinking of Eve as my mother was going through the dying process; passing away
on Jan. 12. I reflected on what a wonderful mother I had been blessed with and
it made me think of the first mother in this mortal journey we are all on.
There is much we can learn from Eve. She was willing to take the harder road in
life when she accepted partaking of the forbidden fruit; as she came to realize
the need for the fall to open the door for the rest of us to come and
gain the experience necessary to obtain eternal life.
President Russell M. Nelson in a Conference talk entitled
"Lessons from Eve" points to 5 fundamental lessons of everlasting
importance we can learn from Eve.
1. She labored beside her companion (see Moses 5:1)
2. She and Adam bore the responsibilities of parenthood. (see
Moses 5:2)3. She and her partner worshipped the Lord in prayer (see Moses 5:4)
4. She and Adam heeded divine commandments of obedience and sacrifice (Moses:5-6)
5. She and her husband taught the gospel to their children (see Moses 5:12)
I hope we will focus on one of these aspects each month for the
next 5 months to create our legacy we will leave to our posterity as daughters
of Eve and spirit daughters of our Heavenly Father.
Love,
Linda Rogers, RS 2nd Counselor
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