Luncheon of Love

Thank you so much to Mary Lynn Jensen for letting us gather in her beautiful home.  And thank you to Rebecca Fredrick and her committee for organizing such a nice event.  We miss those of you who were not able to come. 

Luncheon of Love!

Don't miss out on the 

Luncheon of Love!

Monday, February 24 @11

Home of Mary Lynn Jensen

  This will be such a fun activity that you don't want to miss.

January 2nd Relief Society Lesson

Carol Lear taught a beautiful lesson about friendship.  She related this to missionary work.  Missionary work should begin with friendship and love.  She talked about how true friendship takes effort.  People made wonderful comments about how true friendship takes more effort than a casual, "how are you today?"  This gospel is centered around Jesus Christ.   Christ is the example of pure love.  He showed us how to love people and care for people.  You sisters, are truly examples of woman who reach out to one another in love and friendship.   This is what is so wonderful about visiting teaching.  It allows us to go into each others houses and really grow to love each other and become true friends.  The organization of the Relief Society is a gift from our Heavenly Father.  We all have burdens and some very heavy.  When we come together to "mourn with those that mourn, and comfort those who stand in need of comfort," we are acting as our Savior would.  We literally have the ability to make each others burdens light, just by being a sincere friend.
  Carol Shared a poem at the end of the lesson.
The story is made even more interesting (and touching) if we know that Walt Whitman (to whom the poem is addressed) was a humanist and embraced all religions as equal.  He lived and wrote in the mid-1800’s.  Ezra Pound (the poem’s author) was a fascist, probably racist and accused of treason.  He lived and wrote toward the end of the 1800’s and died in 1972.

A Pact

I make a pact with you, Walt Whitman - 

I have detested you long enough.

I come to you as a grown child

Who has had a pig-headed father;

I am old enough now to make friends.

It was you that broke the new wood,

Now is a time for carving.

We have one sap and one root - 

Let there be commerce between us.

Ezra Pound