My Saviors Love...

Today at church was ward conference and so the stake relief society taught our relief society... they taught us on the women in the scriptures... of any subject that can be my favorite this is it... i love the women in the scriptures but my favorite is the new testiment women... I am amazed that we have these amazing glimpses into the LOVE that the savior has for women and how much he cherishes them... i tried to express my thoughts and failed miserably because i cry when its anything close to my heart so i am NEVER able to fully express my passion that i have for these scriptures... i guess its because it gave me a glimpse of how truly cherished and revered i am...

there were a couple of points that always are so interesting when we are taught about the women in the scriptures... i have often heard it said that we are as women are so loved and cherished that we are kept out of the scriptures... really? i think that that is an interesting point... but here is my thought... it was written by men who didnt think about women as their equals (not going all womens lib here) it was written by the prophets in a time where women were property... then it was transcibed by men that had taken a vow of celibacy... so yep your right we dont have names of these women... unless like Mary and Martha who were literally called Friends of Christ...or Mary his mother and Mary the women who he wept for the loss of His physical body after he had been crucified... we dont have names... could it be that there are scriptures about women that were weeded out as not important scripture by men that didnt think about the true importance of women? ( this is all just my thoughts)

So this is what i do know....... i know that it was to a woman that He told that He was the savior of the world (but more importantly HER). it was women that he called friends. ( always thought that would be the coolest thing in the world... to be called His Friend. (i have had way tooooo many friendships with men to last me a lifetime... but he is a man i would be honored to be friends with) it was a woman that annointed his hands and his feet as prophesied. it was woman that he saved from being stoned to death... where was the man that she had sinned with... why was he not about to suffer the same fate? dont you think that He wiped her tears when the crowed went away and gave her a little pep talk telling her to be better and to stop what she was doing... i think after her shame of being caught because of Him there was HOPE... it was a woman that had so much faith that he physically felt her feeling his robe even though he couldnt see her when she tried to sneek touching his robe because she was unclean in the views of the world... When He felt some of His power leave his body he turned and talked to her... he took time out to talk to an unclean woman... amazing... it was a woman He thought about when He hung in agony on the cross... his concern was for his MOM... just like any son he wanted his mom to be taken care of in life... ( does anyone know if Joseph was still alive at this point? because it wasnt said that he was there and if he was would Christ have given Mary another son who could take care of her?) it was a woman that he first showed his hands and feet and showed his resurrected body too... all the most important things that happened in His life happened with or by women...

and another thought about our Heavenly Mother... this subject when brought up makes a teacher in church shiver... because she is not talked about... and it is always said that because God loves her so much that he doesnt let the world know about her... well this is my thought... i know her... i know her characteristics because I know my OWN mom... i know that when i get to the other side i will know HER because i had my mom in this life... and that is an honor.