He came quietly.
No crown. No announcement fit for kings. Just a child wrapped in cloth, laid where animals fed, breathing the same cold air as the world He came to save.
The hands that would one day heal were tiny and trembling. The voice that would still storms first learned to cry. Omnipotence chose dependence. Eternity stepped into time.
This is the miracle that still undoes me. God did not arrive distant or untouchable. He came as a child, vulnerable and near, inviting love before demanding anything in return.
The Christ child reminds us that salvation began not with power displayed, but with humility embraced.
President Oaks: "Some people consider feelings of same-gender attraction to be the defining fact of their existence. There are also people who consider the defining fact of their existence that they are from Texas or that they were in the United States Marines. Or they are red-headed, or they are the best basketball player that ever played for such-and-such a high school. People can adopt a characteristic as the defining example of their existence and often those characteristics are physical.
We have the agency to choose which characteristics will define us; those choices are not thrust upon us.
The ultimate defining fact for all of us is that we are children of Heavenly Parents, born on this earth for a purpose, and born with a divine destiny. Whenever any of those other notions, whatever they may be, gets in the way of that ultimate defining fact, then it is destructive and it leads us down the wrong path."
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“All human beings—male and female—are created in the image of God. Each is a beloved spirit son or daughter of heavenly parents, and, as such, each has a divine nature and destiny” (“The Family: A Proclamation to the World,” Gospel Library). As we approach the 30th anniversary of “The Family: A Proclamation to the World” on September 23, please follow along on social media and study the September edition of the Liahona magazine (available today) by tapping the link in our story.
Read about this in the September edition of the Liahona, linked below:
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