Partners

Saturday, February 07, 2015,p5:56

What about partners and companions?

As I worked at the FSL-family search library this afternoon I was remembering the different feelings I get working with different types of records.

-Deaths are depressing to me.

-Marriages are wonderful and uplifting.

-Births are wonderful and uplifting.

There is something very special about births. I have indexed over 10K Italian births so I have had a lot of time to think and feel and consider and analyze.

-in most cases there are parents for these new little children. They were born so long ago all of them are dead now, but I am typing all their information at the beginning of their lives.

-the willingness of these parents to care for and provide for these little ones they bring into the world is done with such love and faith and hope.

-they had a partner to create the child. And if all goes well that partner will be a twin to support and raise that child. It is so wonderful to have a partner, a companion. There is an automatic listener and speaker that accompanies you and cares and matters.

-why did HF plan it this way or is it eternal and goes back beyond Him? Where ever it began it is awesome. In a threesome one person usually gets left out. But in a couple, in a pair each reflects the other. I am alone now and the value of being able to pray and talk with God has become more and more important to me. The relationship I have with each of my children and spouses and their children is so unique and special.

-I haven’t really cared about how people look much. But now retired and considering family history, and having had a new medical doctor this week has impacted me. Chris Nicholas is a general conference groupie and a Facebook friend. I realized this week that he looks like my mother’s family and the warm spot in my heart that I have for him just got warmer.  He looks and feels comfortable to me. He looks like us!

-Uncle Harold had his funeral last week. (Funny way to say it!) In the pictures posted by Aunt Jewel on Facebook he looked just like Uncle Leo.

-I am not as comfortable with the appearances of the Jensen clan as I am with the Wright clan and I am not sure why that is.

-David Morgan made note of a statistic at a recent singles fireside. There are just as many singles in the Church, not counting children, as there are marrieds and it has been increasing. Bob Davis confirmed that stat for me this week.

-I love companions. I love company and being accompanied in general. My days would seem empty without my 3 labs and fish. I am constantly aware of those dogs and even depressed by problems with them left unresolved.

-why bother creating a world and plan of salvation if we are intended to be alone. I hope that living the law of chastity will entitle us to the blessing of sexual intimacy for eternity.

-I am sad for those who don’t keep that law. I am sad that they won’t have the joy of a wonderful partner(s) for eternity.  This life is just a little blip on the screen of eternity. Just enough to prove ourselves to ourselves.  We will receive more than we can conceive in the Telestial Kingdom.

-Orson Whitney is quoted with some of the most reassuring statements about family and salvation. In the past I have thought it was referring to exaltation. Studying it a little more carefully recently clarified it. And I had to apply it to my wonderful, heartbreaking son Michael. I had to accept that his joy will be greater than he can imagine in the next life.

-in fact I have had to ask myself, am I really a candidate for the Celestial Kingdom?  I have always assumed, Of Course!  But Kathy never figured she could or would qualify. Woah. Is that part of her decision?

-I quit ldssingles.com at October conference. It was unfruitful. I did document a number of very interesting and close encounters.

-I love how my body can handle overeating! I had my yellow shirt on this morning and looking in the mirror I saw how humongous my stomach and  body are! 279 lbs with clothes was what we measured at the docs this week. I will have to learn to manage that aspect of my life better.

-I have written before how I would like the ultimate sharing. Like is has in science fiction sometimes. To be able to read each other’s mind;To be able to live another’s life through their memories.

-So in this here treatise (facetiously) I would like my commitment to partnerships to be massive!

-WWoodruf served totally faithfully with his whole body, mind and soul as a missionary. Matthias F Cowley says Wilford was a missionary incarnate. At the age of 30 he figured it was time to find a wife. He found one in Kirtland and in 2 months they were married. Then one month later he was ready to missionary some more! So long Phoebe. If you want we can meet at your dad’s house in Connecticut. And off he went again! The Fox Islands where he felt directed rewarded him handsomely.  Totally awesome. When Phoebe got there she walked the 10 miles to where he was. 10 miles walking! She was a trooper too!  Melissa Sevy just turned 30. I wonder?

-in closing I want to thank heavenly father for making us social beings if he had anything to do with it. Thank you! p6:46

PS. I have not been very motivated about fish for months and months. I got a little excited today when I realized I could change the water in my bedroom 55 gal. and transfer all the glofish I have been collecting and acclimatizing. I could take one of the light fixtures that works with just one bulb and use it for the Ultra-violet, black light 4 foot florescent tube!  $20 for that bulb last year and I haven't used it well. Now with two fixtures on my bedroom tank I can use one for day light and one for night light, black light. I succeeded in changing the water and transferring the fish. E x c i t e m e n t !