Week Two of FF

This week in my Family Foundations class, we have been focusing on the second paragraph of The Family, which states, "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. Gender is an essential characteristic of individual premortal, mortal, and eternal identity and purpose." What got me thinking about this paragraph was how incredible it is to know that each of us was given a 'divine destiny, identity, and purpose' to create and fu-fill while on this earth. I keep trying to figure out what I am supposed to be doing here and why and I think that is something that we all won't completely understand or figure out until we leave this earth. God has created us for a specific reason and we are supposed to figure out what that reason is in order to accomplish what we are asked to accomplish. That is kind of the fun of it I think; like the Prophets and scriptures say, we have a divine potential and that divine potential is going to bless us if we use it the right way. 

As the week continued on we started getting into the subject of gender roles and why God created males and females and as I was continuing to write on the discussion boards, I came across someone that had written something about same sex marriage. Now I am not going to say anything about whether I approve or not, because that isn't the point of this post and it isn't my business to judge someone's use of agency the way they want to; the point is to let everyone and myself know that God created everyone for a reason, despite of where they came from and where they are going, God created each of us in HIS OWN IMAGE. He took traits from himself and our Heavenly Mother and mixed them together:) to make someone that He knew was going to make a difference (in some way) to the world and the people around them. God has made it so that we can do anything and that we have the power to cease control and do what He has asked us to do. We are powerful human beings and knowing that we can be anything and do anything we want is a pretty awesome thing to be blessed with.