Proclamation Paragraph 7, sentence 6.
"Successful marriages and families are established and maintained on principles of faith, prayer, repentance, forgiveness, respect, love, compassion, work and wholesome recreational activities."
I love that the Proclamation is direct. When I read this I realized that I could and should ask myself often if these principles are being taught and acted upon in my home. My goal is to create an environment in my home where meaningful, strong, lasting, and eternal relationships can be planted, tended to, and eventually harvested. I've already seen some blooming here and there while watching my kids interact together. I've also seen them when there is a lack of respect and/or compassion. Parts of these relationships will be missing if we only focus on one or two of these principles, and I want the WHOLE relationship. All of it. With everyone of my family members. I better plant a few more seeds.
1 comment:
What a profound paragraph... reading it just like that and not with the whole proc it has quite a few things that stand out to me. Lately I have realized that obviously no one is perfect and in turn there is NO family that is perfect. It is up to us to work as hard as we can to perfect and grow those relations. It is always easier to see the changes that others need to make and a lot less easy to see the changes you/yourself needs to make. I recently have been thinking about what I need to change and it is so silly how hard it can be to do even though it could be so easy... there's just that natural man thing that gets in the way ugh!
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