Sunday

It is Sunday again and this time I am alone while my boys are at church. A quiet home is weird when you have such crazy boys around you all the time. But I am grateful for the time to reflect on the gospel. The talk I dove into today for my Sunday meal was by President Eyring, Our Perfect Example.

Here is a link to it

Our Perfect Example


My grandmother is dying and it is hard to know that I won't be able to fly back for the funeral since I am still hugely pregnant. My grandparents are amazing! Really, they are and have been the best example for me. They constantly made me feel loved and were a great example of living the gospel. This also comes at a time when we have to watch our prophet lose his precious wife. And my husbands boss has recently suffered a loss as well.

During times like these I am reminded that family relationships is all that matters. That when the cards are down the most important thing in this life is our family.

I love this talk because it talks about how to love in every relationship. How important it is to develop this kind of love and how the Savior is the only one who can bring us peace. A peace that comes from using His atonement to fill the sorrow we feel after such losses.

Here are just a few highlights from the talk.

"That ought to help you understand why any believing Latter-day Saint is an optimist about what lies ahead for him or her, however difficult the present may be. We believe that through living the gospel of Jesus Christ we can become like the Savior, who is perfect. Considering the attributes of Jesus Christ should quash the pride of the self-satisfied person who thinks he or she has no need to improve. And even the most humble person can take hope in the invitation to become like the Savior."

"Love is the motivating principle by which the Lord leads us along the way towards becoming like Him, our perfect example. Our way of life, hour by hour, must be filled with the love of God and love for others. There is no surprise in that, since the Lord proclaimed those as the first and great commandments. It is love of God that will lead us to keep His commandments. And love of others is at the heart of our capacity to obey Him."

"That is because the greatest joys and the greatest sorrows we experience are in family relationships. The joys come from putting the welfare of others above our own. That is what love is. And the sorrow comes primarily from selfishness, which is the absence of love. The ideal God holds for us is to form families in the way most likely to lead to happiness and away from sorrow. A man and a woman are to make sacred covenants that they will put the welfare and happiness of the other at the center of their lives. Children are to be born into a family where the parents hold the needs of children equal to their own in importance. And children are to love parents and each other."

"First, I give counsel to husbands and wives. Pray for the love which allows you to see the good in your companion. Pray for the love that makes weaknesses and mistakes seem small. Pray for the love to make your companion’s joy your own. Pray for the love to want to lessen the load and soften the sorrows of your companion."

"You have felt it in your family when you asked the pardon of your spouse or forgave a child for some mistake or disobedience. These moments will come more often as you try to do the things you know Jesus would do. Because of His Atonement for you, your childlike obedience will bring a feeling of love of the Savior for you and your love for Him. That is one of the gifts that is promised to His faithful disciples. And this gift can come not only to you alone but also to the loving members of your family. The promise was given in 3 Nephi: “And all thy children shall be taught of the Lord; and great shall be the peace of thy children"