I am so grateful for this opportunity I have to share some of our basic beliefs with you. I know them to be true. My purpose in creating this blog is to share how I know these doctrines to be true through personal experience. As I post in the future to answer questions being sent to Ashlee, you need to have this foundation of the basics to better understand and accept more complex questions about other doctrines. This is just an overview of some of the basic doctrines. The link, at the bottom of the post, guides you to lds.org where you can search in greater detail for answers to your questions.
- We are
sons and daughters of a loving Heavenly Father
God is our Heavenly Father.
We are His children. He loves
us. He weeps with us when we are sad and
rejoices with us during our times of happiness.
He knows each of us and cares about our lives. We are not forgotten or lost in His eyes; He
sees each tear and feels each pain. His love for us is eternal and no matter what we choose do in this life, whether good or bad, His love for us never changes.
- God has
a plan for us
His plan is called "The Plan of Salvation" or "The Plan of
Happiness". We lived with Him before we
were born and He desires us to return to live with Him again. This earth life is a time for us to prepare
to become more like Him. He wants our
lives to be filled with joy, but he doesn't take
away our agency (the freedom to chose) and allows us to go through difficult
things to help us become stronger.
However, He has given us so many tools to use through those hard trials
and the greatest blessing He has given us is His son, Jesus Christ.
- Christ is the center of that plan
God sent His Beloved Son, Jesus Christ, into the world so
that all of God’s children would have the possibility of returning to live in
His presence after they die. Only through the Savior’s grace and mercy can we
become clean from sin so that we can live in our Heavenly Father’s presence.
His sacrifice in the Garden
of Gethsemane
You can know these truths for yourself. We invite you to kneel down and pray to your Heavenly Father. Prayer is simple. You do not have to memorize a prayer or have poetic words to pray. This is the basic structure of prayer:
1. Begin by saying "Dear Heavenly Father"
2. Thank Him for the blessing you have been given
3. Ask Him to answer questions, help you with things that are troubling you, or to bless others
4. Close, "In the name of Jesus Christ, amen."
He wants to hear from you and he wants to answer your prayers. Find the courage to ask.
LDS.org
Beautiful! Thank you so much for starting this blog! You and your sister are amazing and the lives you have and will touch will help spread his gospel to all corners of the Earth.
ReplyDeleteI love this Abbey. This is such a wonderful way to share the joy of the gospel.
ReplyDeleteWe just had two people in our stake called as digital missionaries. Their job is to do exactly what you are doing! I think this is such an awesome way to use the tools we have available to us in this day and age to spread the gospel.
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