I AM A CHILD OF GOD

Who am I? This question was answered for me at an early age. I am a Child of God, and He sent me here, He sent me to an earthly home... My journey starts even before I came to this earth.

My Belif is that we are all children of God and that we lived as spirit children of a loving Heavenly Father and Mother, before we even came to this earth. I believe that Heavenly father and Mother have immortal, perfected bodies and are resurrected beings. We knew and could see this about them. We are spiritual children that came into existence from these perfected parents.

We have intelligence (intelligence for this purpose, meaning responding positively to the light of Christ and the ability to make choices). We lived with and knew Christ as our older brother and friend. We knew the love our Heavenly Father has for each one of us and we had a desire to become like him. We made choices and we grew in understanding. There were plans, goals, ideas made in this premortal place where we lived.

On one occasion Heavenly Father presented us all with a plan, that we come to earth to gain a physical body like he has. In that plan we would grow and learn, so we too could become like our Heavenly parents. Also in that plan we were to be tested and tried to see if we could find our way back home again, even though a vale of forgetfulness would be placed upon us.

While presenting this plan, Father called out for someone to come and be a Savior, or in other words, one who would show us the way to obtain this path back to Heaven. This call was answered by two: Jesus and Satan. Both presented ideas and plans to the Father of how they would help us achieve this plan. Satan presented a Sure-thing plan, one in which he would make sure we all returned to heaven no matter what; he would force Fathers will upon us to make sure this happened. Jesus presented a plan where we would have free agency and choices and would be tested and allow our intelligences to grow.

When Father announced that He chose Jesus' plan over Satan's then a war, so to speak, developed. Satan's plan was rejected and he got mad and jealous, so much so that Heavenly Father saw fit to cast him out of this premortal place. One third of the spirit children followed Satan and did not receive a chance to comne to this earth life and get a physical body. They are mad and have carried their war here, on earth, to those who followed the Savior's plan.

I accepted to follow the Savior's plan and thus my Journey began. Being born into a family of 11 children was no easy challenge, and being the 8th, a little girl, after six boys in a row was even more interesting.

My Father, having served in WWII as a Drill Sargent, was now a Banker when I was born. There was a picture of our large family in the paper with us all lined up from oldest to youngest. I never Knew why or how we got into the news. to be continued...