Respect,%20Love,%20Compassion

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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

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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 centerrespect and compassion
  foster and become outgrowths of love

Love is the most fundamental principle of the
gospelIt 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
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Understanding Love Out of the Mouths of Babes
(Wisdom from 4-8 year olds)
When my grandmother got arthritis, she couldnt
bend over and paint her toenails anymore. So my
grandfather does it for her all the time, even
when his hands got arthritis too. Thats 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 dont yell at him because you know it
would hurt his feelings.
Love is what makes you smile when youre 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 theyre kissing.
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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 shouldnt 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 Gods
love. But God makes both kinds of them.
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Understanding Love Proclamation Definitions
"Husband and wife have a solemn responsibility to
love and care for each other and for their
children."
Solemn Responsibility
"Parents have a sacred duty to rear their
children in love"
Sacred Duty
Teach them to love and serve one another"
Practice To Be Taught
"Successful marriages and families are
established and maintained on...love"
Principle of Family Establishment
"Fathers are to preside over their families in
love"
Aspect of Family Leadership
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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, butlove of self is explicitly
condemned as wickedness to be avoided. Text
, pp. 168-169
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Understanding Love Scriptural Definitions

• Family Love Modeled After
• Christs 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)

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Learning to Love Personal Questions
How can better serve and sacrifice for my family?
Love grows through service and sacrifice
How can I act on love I receive in my family?
Love begets Lovein recipients
How can I be a better example of love in my
family?
Love begets Lovein observers
How can I be more obedient to the Spirit to bless
my family?
Love produces obedience,which invites the
Spirit,which enhances love
How can I obtain the gift of charity to bless my
family?
Love is a gift of God
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Practicing These Attitudes and Actions In Our
Family
Christs 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 1036