Chapter 5

Principles of Zion, Part V

Courtship, Temple Marriage, Love at Home

Lead in the priesthood with tenderness. Lead in the home with tenderness.

Be home on Sunday night––a Sabbath time together (JRE Link, 2018-0813 (Mon), WSE-MAIN).

How does the Lord make an apostle out of an otherwise average Melchizedek Priesthood
holder? With the help of a loving wife standing by his side to perfect him in the gospel.

Men: Find your sweeter, kinder self in all of your interactions with your wife and
children at home, with everyone at work, and with everyone you meet in your travels every day.

Make the lady of your life more perfect. There are heights in the gospel she has yet to
discover. The glory of eternity will be far greater for her (JRE Link, 2017-0316 (Thu), COM-STR2).

Love your sweet wife. Love the sweet gospel. The rest of your life on earth will be filled
with everything (JRE Link, 2017-0530 (Tue), COM-STR2).

She'll sweeten your eyes. She'll hold the gate open for you to eternal life.

She'll look good in the celestial kingdom. The kiss will be overwhelming (JRE Link, 2018-0309 (Fri), COM-STR2).

You'll be eternalized, celestialized together (JRE Link, 2021-0710 (Sat), WSE-MAIN).

Seek out your fortune in love.

Long to be part of a marriage companionship. Long to hear her voice (JRE Link, 2018-0928 (Fri), COM-STR2).

Be a perfect gentleman of faith (JRE Link, 2018-0609 (Sat), COM-STR2).

You look like a guy with an angel by your side.

Strive for Johnny Angel love. Romance will sing to you (JRE Link, 2018-0525 (Fri), COM-STR2).

A music kiss––Till there was you. Walk together on the footbridge. You'll shine together.

Romantic love blossoms in the gospel (JRE Link, 2018-0503 (Thu), COM-STR2).

Look into her eyes with an honest and pure heart (JRE Link, 2018-0811 (Sat), COM-STR2).

A supreme courtship is based on celestial ideals (JRE Link, 2017-0210 (Fri), WSE-MAIN).

Give her a lasting stone, a stone more precious than the most exquisite diamond. Her
friendship in life will make you great. You will be together in paradise.

The beautiful green meadows of love everlasting––walk in them to your heart's content.

Marry in the temple and enjoy the steamboat ride to Nauvoo on your honeymoon.

Steamboat. Love boat. The Happiness Express.

The inconceivable implications of a temple marriage sealing. Remember that day. Don't
let those precious memories fade.

The fulness of the gospel is all around you as you walk together down the pathway to the
temple entrance. The Holy Ghost and a strong marriage go hand in hand.

Holding hands brings added strength to your marriage relationship. Dating and holding
hands should be a lifelong thing.

Holding hands and feeling relationship security—a true friendship forever.

I had a great time. We spent the whole evening together. Our hearts are as one.

Continue in love and romance throughout your married lives. Make plans together for
eternity (JRE Link, 2019-0125 (Fri), COM-STR2).

Romance paints a pretty picture in our lives (JRE Link, 2019-0108 (Tue), COM-STR2).

The Spirit is a hopeless romantic, adding bright and beautiful colors to your marriage
relationship with every brush stroke (JRE Link, 2019-0108 (Tue), COM-STR2).

Romance in marriage: fun in dating, kisses, sweet caresses, and intimacies.

She'll enjoy love making competency where time is taken and there is no rush.

Her bright eyes and bright smile will light up the house.

Celestial marriage––Two best friends. Two great people. The love of God is within them (JRE Link, 2018-0818 (Sat), COM-STR2).

Her faith and your faith together—what a match! (JRE Link, 2020-0707 (Tue), WSE-MAIN)

Marriage is an equal partnership. Equal in things on earth. Equal in things in heaven.
Equal in things for eternity (JRE Link, 2017-0903 (Sun), COM-STR2).

More communication between you, not less. More exchange of glad tidings and goodwill
between you, not less. Greater familiarity leads to greater trust in marriage (JRE Link, 2017-0422 (Sat), COM-STR2).

A man and wife should not live on separate islands. Love between them is their common
goal (JRE Link, 2018-0828 (Tue), COM-STR2).

Love is found in the first few words of the Sermon on the Mount (JRE Link, 2018-0828 (Tue), COM-STR2).

Write sweet letters to your husband every so often. Include a little perfume (JRE Link, 2018-0107 (Sun), COM-STR2).

Serve your wife breakfast in bed once a month using an elegant silver tray. Like the
ordinance of washing of feet, it is something you can do regularly for your wife in remembrance
of the covenant of marriage. When not in use, the silver tray can be put on display in a prominent
place in the home as a reminder of this special ordinance.

Kindness to others begins in the home (JRE Link, 2017-0310 (Fri), COM-STR2).

Home is where the family resides. Home is where the Spirit resides––reverent, peaceful,
and inviting (JRE Link, 2018-1219 (Wed), COM-STR2).

Build love in family relationships through the Spirit. Love of the Spirit is fresh and new (JRE Link, 2018-0226 (Mon), COM-STR2).

Love at home––welcome to paradise (JRE Link, 2018-1110 (Sat), WSE-MAIN).

Love in the home is music to your children's ears (JRE Link, 2019-0108 (Tue), COM-STR2).

Love in the home makes for a wonderful day. Your family can triumph over everything (JRE Link, 2019-0324 (Sun), COM-STR2).

Family prayer on a daily basis creates a wonderful homelife (JRE Link, 2017-0903 (Sun), COM-STR2).

This morning my testimony grew by leaps and bounds through family prayer (JRE Link, 2018-0830 (Thu), COM-STR2).

Remember that special night of the gospel every week––family home evening (JRE Link, 2017-1221 (Thu), COM-STR2).

Family home evening improves the youth (JRE Link, 2018-0119 (Fri), COM-STR2).

Monday night, we were just beginning to understand the gospel when the football game
started (JRE Link, 2018-1009 (Tue), COM-STR2).

We'll all be there tonight. We'll sing together in family home evening (JRE Link, 2018-0722 (Sun), COM-STR2).

Family togetherness. Family foreverness (JRE Link, 2018-0720 (Fri), COM-STR2).

Let the joy of family home evening extend throughout the week (JRE Link, 2018-1227 (Thu), COM-STR2).

The power of the Spirit in the home will be magnified by weekly temple attendance.

Set a tee time this Saturday for the whole family. Go for a long drive in the country and
enjoy a picnic together (JRE Link, 2019-0101 (Tue), COM-STR2).

Sing your family a lullaby. Your husband and children will find rest in Zion (JRE Link, 2018-0811 (Sat), COM-STR2).

My wife's desire for building Zion is transforming our home (JRE Link, 2018-0120 (Sat), COM-STR2).

Zion in the home is the ideal of married life. Your children and grandchildren will be
quickened by the Spirit (JRE Link, 2017-0727 (Thu), COM-STR2).

Speak softly to your children. Pray with them daily (JRE Link, 2018-0824 (Fri), COM-STR2).

Make family dinners like mini-Thanksgivings as often as you can (JRE Link, 2019-0108 (Tue), COM-STR2).

Two cooking—a happy married couple working together on the evening meal.

Give her a cape––a Wonder Woman in the home and in the ward.

Honey at the stove––a wife and mother cooking a fabulous dinner.

She sets the table for success in the home.

She keeps the fire going at home all day long, strengthening the faith of everyone in the
family (JRE Link, 2018-0720 (Fri), COM-STR2).

She stokes the flames of passion in the gospel. Find a place in her arms (JRE Link, 2018-0720 (Fri), COM-STR2).

She speaks to you in your patriarchal blessing—Meet me at the top of the world. We'll
travel the eternal worlds together on a chariot of fire (JRE Link, 2018-0905 (Wed), COM-STR2).

She loves righteousness. She loves the Spirit. It is her will to follow the Holy Ghost and
save many souls, starting with those in her own family, and then those in her ward (JRE Link, 2020-0604 (Thu), COM-STR2).

She bears a strong testimony that uplifts her children and provides for them a clear
roadmap in their lives (JRE Link, 2020-0130 (Thu), COM-STR2).

Her children will hold fast to the iron rod and come to her at the tree of life.

She'll wonder each day where all the happiness in her heart is coming from.

She'll kneel to pray to her Heavenly Father, her heart bursting with joy.

She will enjoy jolly good things in life. The Spirit will see to that.

Her happiness is the Lord's happiness (JRE Link, 2018-0925 (Tue), WSE-MAIN).

He gave her strength through his good example as a husband, father, and priesthood
holder (JRE Link, 2017-0921 (Thu), COM-STR2).

She is one of the choosiest, choicest, chosen woman of all time, and yet she chose you.
So, work hard to become the husband of her dreams.

A righteous woman attains unto miracles and other great works of faith. She is known to
God (JRE Link, 2019-0329 (Fri), COM-STR2).

A righteous woman's eyes bring life to a man's soul.