Honoring Fathers And Mothers

Here are some notes I took from a church talk. Any misinformation is the fault of the note taker.

– God created his children in his image.
– Loves us even with our faults
– In Exodus are the Ten Commandments. 1-4 involve relationships with God the rest are relationships with others. 5th commandments encompass both
– The first commandment includes a blessing with it. We are promised a long life.
– What does it mean to honor fathers and mothers> honor comes from Hebrew word related to weighty. It could be a healthy relationship with our parents.
– Parents brought us into the world.
– Are your parents a high priority in your life?
– Besides relationships with our Earthly parents, we need to consider our heavenly parents.
– One way to honor is the nurture feelings of gratitude.
– Parents are imperfect and we need to forgive them. We need to nurture feelings of gratitude.
– Not expressing gratitude to parents is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
– The way to honor parents is to value the life they gave us and to value the counsel they give us a family.
– Parents know us best. Parents are wiser from life’s experience.
– What we become is often from what we receive from our parents.
– We should seek our parents’ counsel as we can. How are we receiving it?
– We also need to see God’s counsel. How do we respond to it?
– What we do is very relate3d to what we become.
– Our parents want to become better than their parents. Emulate their best characteristics and achieve their highest aspirations.
– Are we striving to perpetuate all the things that are good for our parents? Don’t want to give our parents the reason to feel ashamed.
– Honor included attending to our parent’s physical needs as they get older. They have devoted their finances to our help while growing up.
– Christ: one of his final acts was for John to take Christ’s mother into his home.
– Elder Oaks: allow aging parents to live independently as long as they can. Have parents live with their kids rather than a rest home. The last resort is to send home to assistant living. It takes care of physical but family needs to provide emotional support and other needs.
– If you honor your parents, love them, express appreciation. Do this by following their commandments.