She asked us to ask ourselves,
"How do I show up in my family?"
"What are my roles
and how do I fulfill them?"
We are daughters, mothers, grandmothers, sisters, cousins, friends, wives, aunts, step mothers, great grandmothers and so on, but how do we love in those roles? Are we a source of support, love, guidance and nurture or are we critical, withholding, enabling and rude?
- We need to be consciously doing our part, not just checking things off the list (i.e., prayer, scripture study, Family Home Evening, serving our families and so on).
- Get clear about how you define love in your family (interesting thought isn't it?).
- Why did God establish eternal families? To teach us how to love; having children helps us become more like God. (But it's an incredibly slow process for some of us!)
- There are lots of ways to express love.
- How do we teach this concept of family and love?
- How do we teach our children? Example is the best way to teach them.
- The adversary doesn't take a day off and he is constantly attacking the family.
- Families can be together forever. Can is an action word, we need to our part to have an eternal family.
**Thoughts??**
4 comments:
ok- I am sad too that your summer just got cut... but more sad the kids won't have you to help them! I think it could be fun to work in the office though- ladies I know who work in the jr. high office love it & are good friends-
I Love your Sunday thoughts today- What a GREAT question. I am sitting here pondering it & wow- great question.
I was really hoping to meet up for lunch this summer... I'll email you soon.
You brought up some good things to think about. Like Pooh I shall have to "think, think, think."
Wow! That's a change. It's no fun to lose your summer but I'm glad there is still a job available with such tight funding.
1. I am so sad that you won't have the same job you had last year. I really hope you end up enjoying the office job.
2. I am SO sad that you have to start tomorrow! And I hope that you will still have some summer left to enjoy. Finding this out with no notice is totally uncool.
3. I am very impressed with your attitude.
4. I am going to have to ponder on these Sunday thoughts some more! When I really think about it, I think my main job is to love. Sadly, I am too often critical and withholding. And definitely enabling. Man.
I'm printing this out to ponder!
I like the idea of getting clear on how your family expresses love. In the minor smattering of literature I've read on family or relationships in general, I think misunderstandings concerning actions and motives cause many problems.
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