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Respect, Love, Compassion

Respect, Love, Compassion. Successful marriages and families are established and maintained on principles of faith, prayer, repentance, forgiveness, respect, love, compassion , work, and wholesome recreational activities. Proclamation, ¶ 7. Attitude and Action.

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Respect, Love, Compassion

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  1. Respect, Love, Compassion Successful marriages and families are established and maintained on principles of faith, prayer, repentance, forgiveness, respect, love, compassion, work, and wholesome recreational activities. Proclamation, ¶ 7

  2. Attitude and Action • Respect, Love, and Compassion imply both feeling and doing in family life • We feel and express honor and esteem • We feel and express affection and liking • We feel and are moved by empathy • These three work together in our family relationships • Love is at the center—respect and compassion foster and become outgrowths of love “Love is the most fundamental principle of the gospel…It is well established both in modern revelation and by secular authority, that no group or social institution is more suited to teaching love than the human family.” Text, p. 170

  3. Understanding Love: Out of the Mouths of Babes (Wisdom from 4-8 year olds) “When my grandmother got arthritis, she couldn’t bend over and paint her toenails anymore. So my grandfather does it for her all the time, even when his hands got arthritis too. That’s love.” “Love is when you go out to eat and give somebody most of your French fries without making them give you any of theirs.” “Love is when someone hurts you. And you get so mad but you don’t yell at him because you know it would hurt his feelings.” “Love is what makes you smile when you’re tired.” “Love is when you kiss all the time. Then when you get tired of kissing, you still want to be together and you talk more. My mommy and daddy are like that. They look gross when they kiss but they look happy, and sometimes they dance in the kitchen while they’re kissing.”

  4. “Love is when you tell a guy you like his shirt, then he wears it everyday.” “Love is when mommy gives daddy the best piece of chicken.” “I know my older sister loves me because she gives me all her old clothes and has to go out and buy new ones.” “You really shouldn’t say ‘I love you’ unless you mean it. But if you mean it, you should say it a lot. People forget.” “There are two kinds of love – our love and God’s love. But God makes both kinds of them.”

  5. Understanding Love: Proclamation Definitions Solemn Responsibility "Husband and wife have a solemn responsibility to love and care for each other and for their children." Sacred Duty "Parents have a sacred duty to rear their children in love" Practice To Be Taught “Teach them to love and serve one another" Principle of Family Establishment "Successful marriages and families are established and maintained on...love" Aspect of Family Leadership "Fathers are to preside over their families in love"

  6. + Higher Law of Love: Self Sacrifice (No Self) 0 Mosaic Law of Love: Equality (Others and Self) - World Law of Love: Self Priority (Self Before Others) Understanding Love: World Contrast “The whole notion of “self-image” as something we should focus on, evaluate, polish, work to improve, and in effect serve, verges on the love of other gods forbidden in the first commandment and the idolatry forbidden in the second… “Nowhere in scripture are we told to love ourselves, but…love of self is explicitly condemned as wickedness to be avoided.” Text, pp. 168-169

  7. Family Love Modeled After Christ’s Love: Suffereth Long Is Kind Envieth Not Vaunteth Not Itself Is Not Puffed Up Doth Not Behave Itself Unseemingly Seeketh Not Her Own Is Not Easily Provoked Thinketh No Evil Rejoiceth Not In Iniquity Rejoiceth In TheTruth Beareth All Things Believeth All Things Hopeth All Things Endureth All Things Never Faileth (1 Corinthians 13) Family Love as Prerequisite to Our Divine Destiny: He that loveth not knoweth not God, for God is love If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgement There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out all fear If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen? He who loveth God loveth his brother also (1 John 4) Understanding Love: Scriptural Definitions

  8. Learning to Love: Personal Questions Love grows through service and sacrifice How can better serve and sacrifice for my family? Love begets Lovein recipients How can I act on love I receive in my family? Love begets Lovein observers How can I be a better example of love in my family? Love produces obedience,which invites the Spirit,which enhances love How can I be more obedient to the Spirit to bless my family? How can I obtain the gift of charity to bless my family? Love is a gift of God

  9. + 0 - Practicing These Attitudes and Actions In Our Family Christ’s Case Study: The Compassionately Loving Good Samaritan Samaritan: Save, heal, humility, sacrifice Jews: Not hurting, but not helping Thieves: Self interest, hurt, damage relationships “Go thou and do likewise” Luke 10:36

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