On his Wife's Heavenly Power

He wonders if speaking to his wife is a little like praying and he wonders often if someone is listening on the other side?

He has been taught since his early youth, the standard of pray for his faith community.

Dear Heavenly Father
Then he should state what he is grateful for.
Then he should ask for what he needs.
Then he should close in the Name of Jesus Christ
Amen

 

This is the way he has prayed for his entire lifetime.

He has begun to wonder if prayer is more of a party-line affair.

In his youth laying telephone lines was an expensive affair, often two or more neighbors would share the same physical phone line.  His parents shared a phone line with the adjacent home.  When the phone rang once, it was for you, if it rang twice it was for your neighbor. You could pick up the phone and hear the neighbor's conversation.

What if in prayer there was an additional deity on the line when you called home. Might God be married, and might his wife be listening?

They rarely speak of a Heavenly Mother in his faith community.  He has been instructed this is because of respect and to avoid vulgar repetition of her name. They are beginning to speak more of the Heavenly Mother, in his faith community, and he longs to know more of her and the role she plays in his life.

His relationship with his Earthly Mother was always difficult.  They danced in and out of each other’s lives.  He reaching out and she is pushing away, she reaching out and he pushing away.  In the end, they danced together the most beautiful dance, when he began to see his Mother for the Mom she became.

Was the Eternal Mom listening in on that party line and doing her best to help them dance, together?

He knows that his wife is listening to him, not from the things she says, but from the life, she lives.

She knows what he needs before he knows what he needs.

She spent 25 years always being at home when he arrived home or arranging for someone to be there when she could not.  Less than 10 times in those years was she not home when he arrived home.

She cooked and she cleaned, and she kept a fine house.  She cared for their children.

She provided the proper advice even when he would have preferred different advice.

She can be tenacious as a bulldog.  When she gets hold of an idea she never let’s go.

He wonders if she has a special connection with the Heavenly Mother.  When God listens in on the party line, does she then communicate with one of her daughters to meet the needs discovered in the prayer?

His Wife's Priesthood power seems like such a mystery to him.  Women preach they serve missions, they serve in the temple, they bless their children when their children are ill, often with a silent prayer of faith.  He has seen his wife do it many times as she rocked a child or placed it in a cool basin of water to reduce a fever.  He knows her prayer of faith is as effective a priesthood blessing as a formal prayer from him. These things he is not authorized to do without formal ordination.

Some speculate that endowed women share their father's and husband’s priesthood power after the temple endowment.  I am not sure this is correct. Might the Heavenly Mother be sharing her Priesthood Power with her daughters after the Temple Endowment.  A two-track priesthood line from the Heavenly Parents to the Earthy Adam and Eve would be such a strength to the family.

Maybe someday it will be revealed to him from where his Wife's Priesthood Power is derived, for now, he is grateful for his wife’s exercise of her Priesthood Power.