What Does Nurturing with God Look Like?
November 28th - Nurture - What does nurturing with God look like?
Notes from the gathering:
Enos 1:1 sounds a bit like Enos was taught about a Mother and a Father; the language “nurture and admonition” is so similar to the responsibilities of each listed in the family proclamation: —for he taught me in his language, and also in the nurture and admonition of the Lord—and blessed be the name of my God for it—(Enos 1:1)
Our heavenly parents presented the Plan of Salvation; it was their paradigm, their framework for their children. Someone, Lucifer, thought it was horrible and tried to change it. That didn’t work out so well for him and his followers.
Likewise, in our day, the framework of the church is managed by priesthood, honoring people male but also female leaders, perhaps admonition and nurture.
Similarly, we have the proclamation which states that marriage is between a man and a woman. It is an eternal paradigm and framework for families.
When people try to change the framework, are they rebelling against eternal nurture and admonition?
1820 dictionary definitions:
Nurture = feed, protect, support, encourage, train, educate
Admonish = counsel, advise, caution
President Ballard: Some women wish they could find more stories of women in the scriptures and in Church history. We need to develop the skill to find their influence—Mormon - amazing wife - have raised a remarkable son like Moroni— If you look carefully and with the right spirit, you can find similar manifestations of effective nurturing throughout the scriptures. https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/liahona/2021/03/the-essential-role-of-women?lang=eng
“Enos and the Words Concerning Eternal Life”
David R. Seely, “Enos and the Words Concerning Eternal Life,” in The Book of Mormon: Jacob through Words of Mormon, To Learn with Joy, eds. Monte S. Nyman and Charles D. Tate Jr., (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1990), 221–33.
Taught me in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. The phrase “in the nurture and admonition” occurs in the Bible only in the King James translation of Ephesians 6:4, where it also occurs in the context of the family. [2] The English word nurture does not occur elsewhere in the Old or New Testament in the KJV, and the word admonition is only slightly more common. Both Greek words in Ephesians 6:4 (paideia, “nurture,” and nouthesia, “admonition”) are quite common in the Septuagint translation of numerous Hebrew verbs both in the context of the Lord and of the family. Thus such a concept could have been known to Enos from the brass plates, and it is at least possible that both passages are derived from a common antecedent in the Hebrew tradition that is no longer extant in our English translation of the scriptures. For our purposes, we are interested in seeing if there is anything in the teachings of Jacob to which Enos may have been referring with this phrase.
As noted above, the word nurture does not occur elsewhere in the Book of Mormon, but it is possible that the concept Enos refers to with nurture may be found in its English cognate nourish (both of which derive from the Latin root nutrire), which occurs 25 times (in various forms) in the book of Jacob, all but one in the context of the allegory of the olive tree where the term is used in reference to the care the Lord and his servants give to the vineyard. [3] Jacob also applies it to the people in conjunction with hearing the word when he mentions their being “nourished by the good word of God all the day long” (Jacob 6:7). The same concept may also be found in the English cognate nursing which is found in Jacob’s quotation of Isaiah referring to the “nursing fathers” and “nursing mothers” (2 Nephi 6:7). Enos’ use of “nurture of the Lord,” as taught him by his father Jacob, might refer to the Lord’s care for his children as demonstrated by Jacob’s quotations and his discussion of the allegory of the olive trees (Jacob 5–6).
"The Lord’s Church needs Spirit-directed women who use their unique gifts to nurture, to speak up, and to defend gospel truth. Our inspiration and intuition are necessary parts of building the kingdom of God, which really means doing our part to bring salvation to God’s children.” Neil Marriot
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/2016/04/what-shall-we-do?lang=eng
Jenet Erickson
https://rsc.byu.edu/divine-design/motherhood-restoring-clarity-vision-world-confusing-messages
Jennifer Finlayson-Fife Podcast
Want vs Desire
1:08:43 mark: “Protect though is different because the feminine is the life force, it is growth, it is beauty, it is art, it is expansion, and so the masculine looks outward to protect the feminine so the feminine can flourish and even cast a shadow over the masculine. And that’s what good sexuality is. Because it facilitates the feminine flourishing because she knows, “you have my back, I know you care about me, why would I not flourish here. . . . We want to teach that kind of feminine— we need it societally, the feminine is equal to the masculine—but to thrive, we need to protect it so it can flourish but not own it and not condescend to it.”
Jenet Erickson
https://byustudies.byu.edu/article/it-takes-two/
Nurturing - equal partners - mothers of the sons of Helaman - be a leader in the nurturing of the gospel in the home - President Eyring’s talk -
Women should just jump in when needed - wife/husband -
Take turns calling on family members to pray
Be like Eve - take the lead - Eve and Adam by Melinda Wheelwright Brown
Women love to gather and talk — share —
Look and work to be inspired -
Sister Marriott: “What does the Savior do continually?” He nurtures. He creates. He encourages growth and goodness.
Creating and nurturing go together
Protect so she can nurture — outward/inward
To create is fulfilling — satisfying — transforming
President Uchtdorf’s 2008 talk on creating
Thus, the meaning of ritual [li] is to nurture.
https://rsc.byu.edu/our-rites-worship/ritual-process-deification