{"id":3936,"date":"2007-07-07T10:29:37","date_gmt":"2007-07-07T14:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=3936"},"modified":"2007-07-07T10:32:44","modified_gmt":"2007-07-07T14:32:44","slug":"the-gathering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2007\/07\/the-gathering\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gathering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Moroni first appeared to Joseph Smith, <a href=\"http:\/\/scriptures.lds.org\/en\/js_h\/1#39\">he quoted a number of scriptures, including Malachi&#8217;s prophesy<\/a> that &#8220;And he [ie the Lord] shall plant in the hearts of the children the promises made to the fathers, and the hearts of the children shall turn to their fathers.&#8221;  We generally read these words as a reference to temple work, but there is much more going on in them, I believe.  This morning, after playing baseball with my son, I sat watching him play on the lawn with his stuffed seal (who had been transformed into a super hero) and I read the following poem, which unknown to the author, I am sure, is about Malachi&#8217;s prophesy:<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>The Gathering<\/i><\/p>\n<p>At my age my father<br \/>\nheld me on his arm<br \/>\nlike a hooded bird,<br \/>\nand his father held him so.<br \/>\nNow I grow into brotherhood<br \/>\nwith my father as he<br \/>\nwith his had grown,<br \/>\ntime teaching me<br \/>\nhis thoughts in my own.<br \/>\nNow he speaks in me<br \/>\nas when I knew him first,<br \/>\nas his father spoke<br \/>\nin him when he had come<br \/>\nto thirst for the life<br \/>\nof a young son.  My son<br \/>\nwill know me in himself<br \/>\nwhen his son sits hooded on<br \/>\nhis arm and I have grown<br \/>\nto be brother to all<br \/>\nmy fathers, memory<br \/>\nspeaking to knowledge,<br \/>\nfinally, in my bones.<\/p>\n<p>Wendell Berry, <i>Collected Poems: 1957-1982<\/i> (New York: Farrar, Straus &#038; Giroux, 1984), 161.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The brotherhood of fathers and sons and the gathering across generations struck me as images that Malachi, Moroni, and Joseph would have appreciated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Moroni first appeared to Joseph Smith, he quoted a number of scriptures, including Malachi&#8217;s prophesy that &#8220;And he [ie the Lord] shall plant in the hearts of the children the promises made to the fathers, and the hearts of the children shall turn to their fathers.&#8221; We generally read these words as a reference to temple work, but there is much more going on in them, I believe. This morning, after playing baseball with my son, I sat watching him play on the lawn with his stuffed seal (who had been transformed into a super hero) and I read the following poem, which unknown to the author, I am sure, is about Malachi&#8217;s prophesy:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corn"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3936","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}