Today my husband called to inform me that Joshua had a baseball game at 6:30. I thought for a moment “don’t they know it’s Family Home Evening?” Then I remembered that “they” don’t care. Surely life would keep us busy enough consuming our days and our children’s days doing worthwhile activities. My mind reflected on a talk given by Julie B. Beck about prioritizing our time into 3 lists ( I have blogged about this before probably because it weighs so heavily upon my mind). The categories are essential, necessary and nice-to-do’s. I contemplated this concept so much this weekend as we went to stake conference and heard Elder Gene R. Cook (emeritus seventy living in our stake) speak in the Saturday Evening session. He spoke for 1 hour 45 minutes on key doctrines in our church that we need to teach our children so they can internalize them, so they can be apart of them. I wondered how on earth am I going to teach my children all that they need to know to be deeply grounded in the gospel of Jesus Christ if I skip out on Family Home Evening for a baseball game? There is not enough time in a day to do it all, something has got to give. I remember years ago when we had to choose between a ballroom dance performance for Brittney and Family Home Evening. Do my children know what I stand for? What is important to me? I am making an essential, necessary and nice-to-do list for our family so we “never let those things that matter most be at the mercy of things that matter least”. I’m glad I have the opportunity to make hard choices, it defines my character.
1 comment:
Yep you definitely set a wonderful example. It is only in those hard moments making choices that we figure out who we really are and what we stand for. Way to go Mom for always being true to what you taught us. Love you!
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