Parents should help their Children to to be innocent and happy. Happiness is a Choice

I truly believe that childhood should be a time of innocence, joy, playfulness, happiness, and lots of love.

Children do not deserve to go through our nervous breakdown with us.

Life happens, Bad things happen and we feel bad, sad, depressed…etc…

We should not take it out emotionally on our children. Let me explain:

Children are sensitive to us. 

This equates all the way up for different ages. We are all sensitive to our parents. Examples:

In the manuals for toddlers for Nursery…usually if the parent drops off the child and has a giant guilt trip and feels really worried that the child will like it…then the child senses their parents fear and cries. If you want your child to truly love nursery then drop them off excited for them and leave...then have your worry or guilt trip out in the hall. You will save them a lot of grief.

This is also why I always bought myself a Christmas Present to open every year in front of the kids just in case I didn’t get one so I wouldn’t ruin Christmas for them. (I always got one and never put it under the tree...but it was just in case I needed to pull it out) I didn’t want them to feel bad that I didn’t get something and was excited also. I was truly excited for them to open their gifts every year…I could care less if I got a gift. The Savior's love plus Their joy WAS my gift….but they were sensitive to me and I wanted to make sure they were truly joyful without doubt or worry about how I felt during this glorious season.

An example of how we experience or view things as a child vs things as an adult:

When I was a child my mom and dad left me at my aunt and uncles to be raised for my own health.    

My aunt is a very giving person and she gave them fruit from her garden that had been bottled. Those bottles took up the place in the car where I had been sitting. The child in my mind equated that to thinking that I had been traded for bottled fruit. After that time, I hated eating bottled fruit. It would physically make me sick for years and years until my adult mind figured out why. Our child like minds perceive differently and personally. So if we are going through a difficult time emotionally (someone hurts our feelings, death, divorce etc….) and when we are depressed, lifeless and without emotion when we are around our children…they can equate that in all sorts of child mind ways; perhaps that we don’t love them, perhaps that we don’t think they are fun to be around, perhaps that we think they are too dumb to enjoy our company….etc…  it almost always hurts them in some way.

So, when we experience a hard time….We need to shake it off and enjoy our children while they are children and ‘to infinity and beyond’ as Buzz  Lightyear would say.

My mother was a wonderful example of that:

My dad was a cool and smart man when he was sober…..but….When I was little my dad would drink alcohol and come home and beat mom and the kids. The emotion was scary and intense…but after he would leave, my mom would assess the damage and if there were no broken bones..etc…then she would excitedly say, “Let’s change the mood in this home!” and she would honky tonk the piano and we would all dance around in joy and delight. What a wonderful woman she was.  

That proved to me that Happiness is a Choice. So choose to be happy for Kids Sake.

God Bless America

In honor of 9/11 May we remember and pray for all families

who have lost someone they love.

“God Bless America”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfQmborHQvE&feature=youtu.be

Deep & Wide Music Video

DEEP & WIDE

Music Video by Patti Miner

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HEU-non0yE&feature=youtu.be

"Your love is to me like a clear blue mountain stream. Just like mama sang, it's Deep & Wide"

All Creation Speaks of God

ALL CREATION SHOW THAT THERE IS A GOD

Here are at least 16 scientific reasons in the creation of our Earth 

that if off even a degree would not sustain life. 

These scientific facts alone should indeed prove 

that there had to be a great design on the part of a supreme creator.

1. The Earth must be positioned exactly where it is in the Milky Way and have two gas giants; Jupiter and Saturn to protect the Earth from cataclysmic destruction.
2.  If we were 5% closer to the Sun we would have a runaway Green House Effect like Venus up to 900 degrees
3.  If we were 20% farther we would have carbon dioxide clouds creating ice similar to Mars.
4. If our Sun was not the size it is and was smaller, (like 90% of the stars in the galaxy) Earth would be locked into the Sun’s rotation thus one side hot and one side cold.
5. If our Moon was not stabilized at 23.5 degree tilt it would not allow the seasons and also have cataclysmic destruction.
6. If our Earth was spinning too fast or too slow, or our magnetic field was weaker it would allow the solar wind to strip away our atmosphere.
7. If our Earth was a circular orbit and not a ‘near circular orbit’ it would not be ideal for human life as well.
8. The liquid on our planet is perfect to absorb and retain heat from the sun to regulate the Earth’s surface temperature, protect it from harmful radiation and yet
9. The liquid is capable of transporting nutrients to all living things.
10. The liquid water on our planet differs from most other liquids on other planets – it is most dense at 4 degrees Celsius and not as solid as most planets liquid
11. Our atmosphere is the perfect mix of oxygen and nitrogen, enough for respiration and fire, but not explosive. 
12. Strong magnetic field requires molten metal core- ours is iron, and protects us from radiation. If the Earth had a smaller magnetic field it would be too weak and would allow the solar wind to strip away our atmosphere and turn it into a barren wasteland like Mars.
13. Our Atmosphere protects us from harmful radiation, yet it allows only the special radiation crucial for life to come through
14. Plate Tectonics regulate the interior temperatures and re-cycles the carbon and mixes chemical elements essential for life. It also shapes the continents.
15. The Strength of Gravity has to be exact to hold us to the planet yet allowing our movement.
16. The specific Electromagnetic frequencies that enable plants to manufacture food –it represents less than 1 trillionth of a trillionth of the Universe’s normal range of  Electromagnetic emissions. It protects us from the solar winds and radiations. There is even a back up barrier in case any harmful emissions get through the first one. Then those emissions are directed towards the two poles to protect the rest of the land mass. (Sometimes we can see them - Thus the Northern Lights) 

Charles Darwin said, “If you believe in God your entire life and there isn’t a God, you have wasted a lifetime. If you don’t believe in God your entire life and there is, you have wasted an eternity.”

 I know there is a God who created this Earth and is my Heavenly Father and I love Him very much and I know that He loves me and each and everyone one of us…His children.

Sincerely

Patti Miner

GOD BLESS AMERICA

Here is my YouTube Video with my Prayer for America

God Please Bless America!

Patti Singing “God Bless America”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfQmborHQvE&feature=youtu.be

PARABLE OF THE SOWER

LAW OF AVERAGES / SALESMAN/MISSIONARY WORK

They didn’t have tractors back in the day………they had a guy with a bag of seeds called   ‘the sower’

This ‘sower’ was WISE – he had knowledge and was smart to use his knowledge therefore…wise.

This ‘sower’ had EXCELLENT SEEDS – the Gospel is the best seeds that I know of.

He was HIGHLY AMBITIOUS = he went to work.

1- seeds fell by the WAYSIDE = so you have a new investigator and on Friday he tells you that he is excited to come to church on Sunday…but he doesn’t come…what happened?  The BIRDS done got him.  Perhaps his brother-in-law said, ‘wait you can’t miss poker Sunday with the boys.’ His plumber says, “Wait, I heard that was the church of the devil.” . What do you do? You could chase the birds…but if you leave the field you aren’t planting anymore… What did the sower do?

HE KEPT ON SOWING

2- seeds fell in STONY PLACES  = so you have a new convert that just joined the church and comes for 3 Sundays and then doesn’t show up any more after that…you say “I was sure he’d last at least a month?…what happened?  SCORCHED, FIRST HOT DAY WITHERS AND DIES…not fellowshipped. What do you do? Get the members to fellow ship them…. What did the sower do?

HE KEPT ON SOWING

3- seeds fell upon THORNS = new convert joins and CHOKED..TOO BUSY WITH THE CARES OF LIFE…deceit of worldly riches instead of spiritual riches, too busy with worldly pleasures, boating, vacations. Some people Major in Minor things. What did the sower do?

HE KEPT ON SOWING

4- seeds fell on GOOD GROUND and brought forth GOOD FRUIT =  joined the church, had a testimony and stayed active…= if you keep sowing long enough you will be successful.

The law of averages were even displayed with the GOOD FRUIT...some produced 30% some 60% and some 100%.....

How could a loving GOD allow Bad things to happen to Good People?

I am often asked “How could a loving God allow Bad things to happen to Good People?”  Here is the shortest way that I can answer that.

In the pre-existence we were Intelligences and then we were spiritually born of Heavenly Father. We had progressed as far as we could as Spirit Children and wanted to progress farther. A Loving Father in Heaven saw this and presented a Plan of Salvation where we could accomplish this. Two thirds of us chose His Plan and came to Earth to receive our bodies and go through Trials by Faith to see if we would continue to choose His plan over and over again regardless of what trials we would have to face. Earth time is very short compared to God’s time so we are only here minutes to Him. The most important part of this plan was our Free Agency. No one could take this away from us…it was a Gift. God has given us EVERYTHING. The only gift we can possibly give Him back is our Agency to choose to be with Him and try to become Like Him.

While we are on Earth, we are all here bumping into the Free Agency of other People, the Free Agency of Nature, the Free Agency of Disease, the Free Agency of all Life… Our job is to continue to choose God in all that we come upon and endure through it all.

Our reaction to these trials are more important than what the trials themselves actually are. We need to eventually develop empathy for others, patience, kindness, and become spiritually great as a true child of Deity should become.

It will be difficult…but it will be worth it. We will be filled with Joy to Return to Heavenly Father to work in His Kingdom and Increase Forever.