From the Proclamation on the Family (1995) we learn that we have Heavenly Parents, a principle that has not been emphasized in years prior to 1995.  It means that our heavenly father is a husband and a father; his wife is a wife and a mother.  They become our models to become the kind of spouses and parents that They became.  Joseph Smith indicated that Heavenly Father once lived on an earth the same as Jesus Christ and the rest of us.  That means that He knows how to bless our lives; He understands the challenges of mortality; He knows how best to parent us as His children.