Honor your Farher

I was reading the book of John in The Bible this week, and I want to share something that I learned from it.

I read John chapter 8.  Jesus was in the temple and said to the people in verse 23 “Ye are from beneath; I am from above. Then Jesus said again “if you continue in my word... [ye] shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free”.  The Jews answered to Him:  “We be Abraham’s seed and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, ya shall be made free?”. Jesus explained them that if we commited sin, we are in bondage. Then He explained that if they are the seed of Abraham, they should do what Abraham did.

It is interesting to me that after that Jesus started  talking  about how He honor His Father on Heaven. He said that His Father is please on Him. So, here we are hearing the Jews feeling proud about being called themselves the seed of Abraham, but not honor him or acting in a way that Abraham would never act. At the other had, Jesus is declaring He is the son of God, acting as God would act and declaring that His Father is please with Him. The Jews, felling mad, said: “we have one Father, even God”. Jesus said some hard words to them. He said that they were the sons of evil. That evil that is the father of lies. And because Jesus tell the truth, they don’t believe them and hate him. It is interesting that Jesus do a comparación: Jesus is the truth. The evil is the lie. Those who continue on His who continue on His words will know the truth and they will be free. Those who continue with evil, they will hate truth and be bondages on lies. That is why He was saying that the son of God will make them free.

Another connection Jesus make here is that, when the Jews said that He had evil, He responded saying that He has not evil, but He honor his Farher. Then he added that if man keep His saying, he will never see death. This is interesting to me because the first things that came to my mind was one of the Ten Commandments that send us to honor our father and mother, so we can have a long living. When I remembered this commandment I thought in the connection Jesus was trying to do here. Since the beginning of their discussion He was teaching about Him being the son of God, then about His words, and those words-truths will make us free; He talked about please our father of those whom we came from, He talked about honor our fathers; now He is talking about keeping His words again and we will see not death. I just start thinking in the commandment of honor thy father and mother to have a long life with dual interpretation. Not only honor our mortal father and mother will help us live long, but honoring our Heavenly Father and Heavenly Mother will give us a long life, an eternal life, a life tar will not have death. We honor our Heavenly Parent by keeping their words, by believing on them, by doing their will, by doing what we had seen them do, by living in the path of truth, by make those things that please them.

Are we the group that feel proud to be called the sons and daughters of Abraham, but not do what He did? Are we call ourselves the sons and daughters of God and try to do our best to please Him and honor Him? As Jesus promised, the second one will make us freem and give us eternal life.

Respect for parents

Respect for parents

I believe that we need to respect our parents no matter what. No matter how they are or what they did. The fact that they are parents and we are family make them be worthy of that respect.

Something that make me believe in that was the story of my dad and his dad.

 I don't remember my parents talking to us, his children, about our grandparents from our dad’s side.  But one day, me and my brothers, being in our early teens asked our father where our grandfather had been all these years.

    My Dad told us the saddest story that we have ever heard in our family.  He told us that when he was about 18 years of age,  he lived with his parents and his siblings in a village called Chameleconcito, Honduras. His father was a farmer and my grandmother was a stay at home mom. All their 7 children and parents lived in a small house of only one bedroom, where the children slept on the floor and the parents were the only ones to sleep on a bed. His father was a very heavy drinker and smoker. He would get drunk every night after work and I'm not sure how many cigarettes he would smoke daily.

One day my grandfather came home drunk and he went to sleep on his bed. when the night came everyone else was also asleep. after a while of being asleep, my father hear a screaming. It was my grandmother screaming for help. It was midnight and there was no electricity. Everything was dark. My father woke up scared and frightened, he approached the bed. As he got nearer to the bed, he saw the  image of my grandfather over my grandmother choking her.

My grandfather was screaming at her, that he knew that she was cheating on him with another man. My dad fought him so that he would let her go. He had to physically hit him several times until he finally got his father to react and finally let her go. When he finally let go of  my grandmother it was too late, she was dead. My grandfather was taken to jail, where he was for about 15 years. The next day my dad went to see him. He saw him behind bars, sitting on a small bed looking very confused. When my grandfather saw my dad, he said, “son, thank goodness your came, why am I here? why am I locked up?”. My dad replied, “oh dad, do not remember what you did?" My grandpa didn't remember a thing. My father didn't want to tell him what he had done. He just consoled him telling him to get some rest, and he begged him to stop drinking.

My dad went every day to visit my grandfather and always took him food. My uncles didn't visit him for a very long time because they were mad and angry with him because of what he had done to their mother. My dad was mad with them for not visit their dad.

When my dad finished we asked him with a slightly annoyed tone: “And you, why would you go visit him and help him? You should have left him there alone, he killed your mother.”.

It was there  where I heard in a few and simple words, one of the most poignant, full of truth, respect, powerful, and the best description of the love of our Heavenly Father has for us, that I have heard.

 His answer remained deeply rooted in me, and broadened my understanding of how the heart of my earthly Father really was and of my Heavenly Father.

My father in a tone of reprimand, with a firm voice and a little disappointment because of the harsh and unforgiving words of his children said: "and why not, he’s my father". He then explained to us that no matter what my grandfather had done, that didn't change the fact that he was his father, who had given his life and therefore he was indebted to him forever. My dad took that moment to tell us, still a little upset by harshness of our question, that a child should always honor their parents no matter what, (and vice versa) merely because the family bond that unites them. That day I understood better the father of the prodigal son, and recognized how fast I was to act like the older brother. With that short sentence I understood why we are commanded to love God above all things. The reason is that He is our Father, he give us life and that make us indebted to Him forever. Most when our Heavenly Father have been a perfect Father. We just have not only love unconditionally our earthly and Heavenly parents but our brothers and neighbor, too. The reason is because all the human raze (and spirits) are family, and that bond that unites us is a strong enough reason to perform, without stammering, our duty to love and care for one another.          

¡Razas! ¿Realmente existen?

No te pongas limites

Feliz año 2015

Esta es una foto que se tomó Josh cuando escalaba con sus amigos en el año 2003. Me encanta esta cita de nuestro actual presidente de nuestra iglesia, La Iglesia de Jesucristo de los Santos de los Ultimos Días.
No pongan limites a sus metas y deseos buenos. Las circunstancias, las personas, las discapacidades físicas y ni el mundo son excusa para no lograr lo que deseamos lograr. El único limite que tenemos somos nosotros cuando nos desanimamos, cuando tenemos una baja autoestima, vemos todo lo negativo o culpamos a todo menos a nosotros.

Se lo confesé ¡No puedo creerlo!

Subject: Confesión

Date: Mon Jun 23, 2003 7:56:31 PM

From: Bessy

To: Joshua

¿Qué tal?

Josh, mis compañeras de trabajo le saludan, dicen que usted es muy guapo, están encantadas con usted, ellas son 3 compañeras, son casadas y no son miembros, pasan viendo su foto (siempre la llevo conmigo).

Ayer al mediodía hablé con un líder sobre lo que me esta pasando con alguien... 
Ese líder me dijo cosas que me hicieron sentir que yo no era tan valiosa, que ciertos muchachos no se interesarían en mi. Me señaló de pié a cabeza y me dijo que no era posible que yo creyera que alguien como yo podría llamarle la atención a alguien como usted. Me sentí fatal con esa platica y me desanimé mucho. 
Al día siguiente fui a una *noche fogonera para adultos soltero donde estuvo el *consejero de la misión y dijo que todas eramos valiosas y dignas de cualquier *poseedor del sacerdocio ¡Fue tan especial!. Sentí como que solo yo estaba en ese salón y que él sabia como me sentía, ese hombre realmente estaba inspirado. Pude sentir el contraste entre lo que me dijo el uno y el otro. El primero, creo que solo estaba diciendo lo que pensaba de lo que estaba a su vista; el segundo, siento que estaba diciendo lo que sabia a profundidad. Sé que el Padre Celestial se dirigió a mi por medio del segundo. Ayer me sentía fatal pero ahora me siento mejor. Satanás siempre se mete con mi auto estima, el sabe cuánto me daña eso.

Su carta no ha llegado, estoy impaciente, quiero leerla ya, mejor digame qué me escribió allí :-)

En cuanto a su pregunta de que si tengo novio o alguien especial, pues, no tengo novio. Tuve algunos novios hace unos años. No duré mucho con esos novios porque era demasiado penosa, tímida y casi en todos los casos terminé con ellos al siguiente día, en serio. No se ahorita qué me esta pasando pero tengo más valor de expresar mis sentimientos y no me siento tan penosa. Sera porque ahora sé que el Padre desea que me case y olvide la misión. Tal vez ahora me siento con mas valor porque por primera vez he estado recibiendo tantos halagos y demostraciones de confianza en mis talentos y virtudes de parte de alguien especial y lo mejor de todo es que ¡estoy creyéndole! Creo en sus hermosas palabras porque las siento sinceras, porque lo siento que él es una persona honesta y ve fácilmente el valor interior y lo aprecia de verdad. 

Volviendo a lo de los novios... no he vuelto a tener novio desde hace algún tiempo. Mi papá es enojadisimo y no me permite ningún amigo ni novio, y yo me moriría de la pena si mi familia me viera con alguien. Con aquellos salí a escondidas :-\. Mi plan es que al presentarle a mi papá mi próximo novio, tendré que estar segura que me casare con él porque no creo que me permitirá otro novio, ni yo tendré ese valor dos veces :-)

Usted me preguntó si hay alguien especial por allí... Sí! Hay alguien especial por allí. 
No se de dónde me sale valor ahorita pero se lo diré porque creo que es lo correcto, puedo sentirlo, aun cuando no se cómo lo vaya a tomar…
(Un laaaargo suspiro)

Aqui voy... 

...¡Usted es esa persona especial y está cambiando mi vida! Ahora deseo ser mejor; Al pensar en usted deseo ser mas digna, mas espiritual y siento que lo estoy logrando. 

Ahora, si desea alejarse de mi por lo que he dicho, no hay problema, lo comprenderé.

Lo quiero mucho y le mando un beso. 

Adiós.

*Noche fogonera o\y Devocional, es una charla espiritual donde un líder habla a los jóvenes adultos y alumnos del Instituto de religión de la iglesia cada mes. Para ver vía satélite el devocional para adultos solteros que se transmitirá este 11\septiembre\2011 ve aquí: http://lds.org/video/ces/index.html?lang=spanish&bcpid=659345007001&bckey=AQ~~,AAAAmBrDwtE~,_58lK-P1xvLW10GEp7PS4hxYDnumMZVs&bclid=742132806001&bctid=810050595001

*Consejero de la Misión: En la iglesia tenemos un presidente y dos consejeros por cada misión que hay al rededor del mundo, el año pasado la Iglesia reporto que tiene 340 misiones.

*El poseedor del sacerdocio es un varón mayor de 12 años que tiene el sacerdocio. El sacerdocio es la autoridad y poder que tienen los hombres para administrar las cosas de Dios aquí en la tierra. Un poseedor del sacerdocio debe ser alguien digno, fiel e integro. Para aprender más sobre las características de un poseedor del sacerdocio y por qué las mujeres de nuestra iglesia deben de aspirar a que su esposo sea un digno poseedor del sacerdocio puedes ir a este link http://lds.org/generalconference/2008/04/examples-of-righteousness?lang=spa o ve a este link para saber todo sobre el Sacerdocio http://biliotecasud-discursos.blogspot.com/2010/04/lo-que-todo-un-elder-debe-saber-y-una.html