{"id":24453,"date":"2013-02-03T07:30:34","date_gmt":"2013-02-03T12:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=24453"},"modified":"2013-02-03T08:26:10","modified_gmt":"2013-02-03T13:26:10","slug":"literary-dcgd-6-may-i-remember-thee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2013\/02\/literary-dcgd-6-may-i-remember-thee\/","title":{"rendered":"Literary DCGD #6: May I Remember Thee"},"content":{"rendered":"

The principle of personal revelation is a foundation of Mormonism, a key to our understanding of the gospel. And few places in the scriptures make this as clear as in D&C 8 and 9, which are discussed in Gospel Doctrine lesson 6. There we learn, among other things, that faith is a key aspect of personal revelation. Thus to receive personal revelation, we need to remember the Lord, as is described in the poem I selected for this lesson.<\/p>\n

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Its author, Minnie Iverson Hodapp, was a prolific Mormon poet of the first half of the 20th century. Born in Utah in 1889, she served an LDS mission to Hawaii, received a bachelor’s degree from BYU and married a german convert, Fred Hodapp, who died in 1918, leaving her to raise a son alone. Despite the challenges of a single parent, she was a frequent contributor to the Church magazines and in her later years published several books, including Cartwheels to Zion<\/em>, Nauvoo Bell<\/em> and Flowering Moments on Temple Square<\/em>.<\/p>\n

.<\/p>\n

May I Remember Thee<\/h3>\n

by Minnie Iverson Hodapp<\/em><\/p>\n

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May I remember Thee, O Lord,<\/dd>\n
With joyful innocence,<\/dd>\n
Nor read thy dear and precious word<\/dd>\n
With darkened countenance,<\/dd>\n
But as the crystal streams upstart<\/dd>\n
With bright and mirthful glee,<\/dd>\n
With gladness and a willing heart<\/dd>\n
May I remember Thee.<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
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May I remember thee, O Lord,<\/dd>\n
But not with sighing fear,<\/dd>\n
By sweet revealings of Thy word,<\/dd>\n
Inspire and draw me near.<\/dd>\n
By every dear and lovely thing<\/dd>\n
Which all around I see<\/dd>\n
\u2019Mid flowers a-bloom and birds that sing,<\/dd>\n
May I remember Thee.<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
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May I remember Thee, O Lord,<\/dd>\n
In happiness and smile,<\/dd>\n
All graciously and willingly<\/dd>\n
With spirit free from guile.<\/dd>\n
\u2019Neath balmy skies of summer blue<\/dd>\n
Where life is glad and free,<\/dd>\n
With loving heart and spirit true,<\/dd>\n
May I remember Thee.<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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\n(H.T. Keepapitchinin<\/a>)<\/p>\n

.<\/p>\n

The portion of this poem most relevant to this lesson is the second stanza, where Hodapp sees personal revelation as itself something that helps her to remember the Lord:<\/p>\n

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By sweet revealings of Thy word,<\/dd>\n
Inspire and draw me near.<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n

In a way this sentiment is almost paradoxical, personal revelation helps us to remember the Lord, just as remembering the Lord facilitates personal revelation. When both are working they put us in a virtuous cycle.<\/p>\n

Perhaps a poem like this will help us find and stay in that cycle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The principle of personal revelation is a foundation of Mormonism, a key to our understanding of the gospel. And few places in the scriptures make this as clear as in D&C 8 and 9, which are discussed in Gospel Doctrine lesson 6. There we learn, among other things, that faith is a key aspect of personal revelation. Thus to receive personal revelation, we need to remember the Lord, as is described in the poem I selected for this lesson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sunday-school-lesson-doctrine-and-covenants"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24453"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24457,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24453\/revisions\/24457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}