Bev Psalm 74: Nine Wo’s

The prophet Jacob testifies that the atonement satisfies the

   eternal law of justice with mercy.

He says O how great the holiness of our God! 

   For He knows all things.

He suffered for all men, women, and children.

At our resurrection, we will be judged. The Lord is the only 

   one who stands at that gate.

It’s not Saint Peter!

Waste not these days of mortal probation.

Nine declarations of Wo, God’s grief, are listed.

What a check-list to avoid being found accused of.

Wo to the rich who despise the poor, meek and lowly.

Wo to the deaf who won’t hear God’s words.

Wo to the blind who won’t see truth and goodness.

Wo to having a heart impervious to divine correction.

Wo to the liar.

Wo to the murderer.

Wo to those practicing sexual immorality and unfaithfulness.

Wo to those who worship idols, whether they be money, sports,

celebrity, 

   political power, cell phone addiction or social media recognition.

The ninth Wo is to all those who die in their sins, for they shall return to 

   God, behold His face and remain in their sins.

Let us be wise and learned, and hearken unto the counsels of the Lord.

Bev Psalm 73: Daughters of Zion

Sisters, have you recently felt that burning spark of inspiration?

KINDLE THAT FIRE!

Circle yourselves about with that glorious light.

Isaiah saw our day. It was so shocking that he recorded God pleading with us.

It was so important that Jacob copied Isaiah’s prophetic vision in the Book of Mormon.

I guess the Lord really wants us to pay attention.

God pleads, Hearken or Listen to Me.

Look unto your first ancestors Abraham and Sarah even though they are dead and their bones are turned to dust.

Lift your eyes toward Heaven. Your forefathers watch you with love from above.

Don’t listen to people who revile you, point fingers and mock your goodness. Fear them not!

Awake and arise. Put on your beautiful garments.

Stand up tall in the power of the priesthood.

Revel in the beauty of your temple covenants.

Shake off the dust of daily battle.

Climb out of the pit of sin, sorrow and sadness.

Look up and say to yourself, “I can do this!”

Choose to feel good.

Be cheerful O daughters of Zion.

Let your life be a light to your family, friends and neighbors, community, country and world.

Fear not because the Lord promises He is with you.

Seek to do His will in all things and find comfort in the Holy Ghost.

Acknowledge how He has clothed you in the robes of His righteousness.

Do you feel that warmth?

Determine to fulfill your grand purpose in mortality and He will have proved you, claimed you, as His own.

Now, go forth, be cheerful and know that you understand the words of Jacob and Isaiah.

Bev Psalm 72: What? Nephi Had Sisters

Imagine Lehi gathering his sons Laman, Lemuel, Sam

   Nephi, Jacob and Joseph in his tent.

Were the women sent outside while he taught?

Outside or inside, the tent walls were thin enough to

   hear them talking.

When you were young, remember listening with

   your ear to the door?

Nephi had sisters as well as a wife.

Some sisters were older and some younger that him.

Like you and me, some may have yearned to

   sit on their father’s lap to learn spiritual things;

   feel of his love.

My grandmother was the 16^th and youngest child

   In her family.

Two of her sisters died at birth or shortly thereafter.

Were there deaths of children in Lehi’s family in

   The wilderness? Miscarriages?

The sisters of Nephi are only mentioned once.

My grandmother had eight older brothers and

   They loved her dearly.

When she married one of their friends, one brother

   named Elijah, recorded it with his new camera.

“Lige” came to play with her daughter, my mother

   Ruth, and recorded it too.

My wish is that when we receive the “other” plates

  That they will tell more about the wives and sisters

   And their good works.

My hunch is that they will, because the story of the

   stripling warriors in Alma tells that they did not doubt

   God would deliver them because their

   mothers taught them and knew it.

Women of faith are needed in every dispensation

   whether they are mentioned in the records or not.

Uncle Lige, Ruth and dolls

Bev Psalm 71: The Pure Love of Christ

 Upon this blog I write the things of my soul.

My soul delighteth in the scriptures and I like

   Nephi, pondereth them in my heart.

Perhaps my readers will profit from them like

   bee pollen is carried from bloom to bloom.

Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote:

   “Every book is a quotation and every

   house is a quotation out of all the forests and

   and mines and stone quarries; and every

   man is a quotation from all his ancestors.”

Nephi wrote a psalm in which he revels in the

   goodness of the Lord and His marvelous works

   and all the things he’s seen and heard.

He, as I, grieve because of this mortal flesh.

We are circled about with temptations and the sins

   which so easily attack us from many directions.

President D. Todd Christopherson warned us 

   Recently about gambling.

Fortunately, that one has never tempted me.

But others such as delicious food shown on TV, in

   ads on YouTube or within emails besiege my life.

Trusting always in God’s support, I fast and He has

   Heard my cry and angels have ministered unto me.

I have experienced again the pure love of Christ as

   I once had in my epiphany of 1978.

As if upon a high mountain, even higher, where the

   stars shone brightly, I saw my eternal companion,

   past, present and future.

Oh, how grand and overwhelming was that pure love of

   Christ for him. I felt it.

Last Sunday, I felt it again; for me and my ministering

   elder.

His love comes often now as I draw closer to my Savior.

So, I as Nephi did, question, “Why should I yield because 

   Of my flesh’s weakness?”

Awake, my soul!

Rejoice, O my heart.

I will praise the Lord and walk the covenant path

   and trust Thee forever.

My life is a book being read on this blog.

Come with me as I share Christ’s love for you.

It is individual and intimate. It is eternal and infinite.

The Ascension of BEE

 

The Ascension of BEE

PROLOGUE

God said, “We will go down, for there is space there, and we will make an earth whereon these may dwell; and we will prove them herewith, to see if they will do all things whatsoever the Lord their God shall command them.” (Abraham 3:24-25)

I am Beverly Elaine Eckles and was born into the world through worthy parentage. I am of the seed of Joseph through the loins of Ephraim, and unto Ephraim and his descendants the Lord has given great promises of blessings and many opportunities of service.

Through the blessings of the Priesthood, I have had the privilege of joining hands with Robert Eugene Field, Sr. in the house of the Lord.

ASCENSION

In the eighth month of the year 1978 while talking with Robert for the second time, (having just been introduced to him, he in Tennessee and me in California) I was carried away in the spirit to a place high above the earth where I beheld the works of God’s hands and the majesty of the stars and galaxies. Mine eyes beheld these great things and I saw Robert as God saw him. Past, present and future were before me all at once.

Now I had not supposed that he was so great a spirit in the pre-existence, but he was one of the great and valiant ones. God showed me that Robert had agreed to all the circumstances and trials that he was to face in this life and that he would keep his second estate. I saw Robert in the life beyond the veil and his works were one with God.

CONCLUSIONS

God says, “There is no God beside me, and all things are present with me.” I know this is so because I have seen as God sees. All things were present to me in that moment of time and space in 1978.

After many years have passed away and my body grows old, I have come to realize that I have been chosen as a helpmeet to Robert. I, too, was valiant in the pre-existence. I, too, come trailing clouds of glory.

My great work and assignment here on earth is to support Robert and to prepare to create worlds without end, to participate in the great work of bringing about the salvation of our combined families and seeing that their work is done for them in the temple. This is the work of Ephraim and in obedience and will carry out God’s work and glory to bring about the eternal life of man.

Together Robert and I will become saviors upon Mount Zion and how beautiful will become our feet as we publish great tidings for our dead ancestors.

(I came upon this testimony written May 2009. Robert died 2012 and now I share this sacred experience with all who read my blog. I am now 82 years of age and look forward to continuing to do the Lord’s work he has asked of me. Writing Bev Psalms was His commandment to me in December 2025.)

Bev Psalm 70: Joseph O Joseph

Joseph of old sold into Egypt, the youngest son

   yet he saved his brethren from famine.

Lehi descended from Joseph and named his

   youngest son born in the wilderness, Joseph.

This Joseph was promised that his seed

   should never perish.

We know that his descendants are Native

   Americans, one was even named Chief Joseph.

They were here to welcome the pilgrims.

They fought on both sides of the Revolutionary War.

Joseph Smith, Jr. who was named after his father,

   Joseph Smith, bridges these generations of Joseph.

He was chosen by God and Jesus Christ as the

   prophet to head this last dispensation;

   to restore Christ’s church founded in former days.

Now over 18 million people worldwide belong to the

   Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

By their works, ye shall know them.

The missionaries found me.

My father’s name was Joseph.

My mother descended from an early Cherokee

   lineage, unproven and torn, a part of the

   Trail of Tears.

If I had had a son, would I have named him Joseph?

Joseph and Ruthe, my parents

Bev Psalm 69: Agency is Key

The Savior Jesus Christ’s atonement is both

   intimate and infinite.

He died for me; He died for you.

We are God’s children.

The world was created for us to learn and to be

   tested to see if we will obey.

Agency to choose is key to God’s plan for us.

As it was in the pre-existence, we were taught

   Through eons with God as our Master teacher.

But there we learned only theory.

Then we had a choice.

If we have a body in our second estate, we chose

   the right: to follow Jesus.

Now we, with two thirds of God’s spirit children,

   live in our mortal laboratory.

Here there is an opposition in all things;

   bitter or sweet; liberty or captivity.

Here we may act or be acted upon.

These are the days of our probation.

God is omniscient, He knows all things,

   therefore, He must see all things at once.

As a loving parent, He knows us intimately.

Yet He lets us choose.

Even if we choose wrongly, He still loves us

   and continually places before us numerous

   opportunities to get back on the covenant path.

Ponder, if you will, what future duties we will be

   given in the worlds to come by an omniscient

   God in order to show us proof of our ability to

   “get it right,” let us know we’ve earned esteem.

He and His Son saw our day and the trials and

   tribulations we are passing through.

Their promise to us is that it will be but for a small moment.

The eternal perspective reminds us that

   this is God’s purpose:

To bring to pass the eternal life of man.

Men are that they might have joy.

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