Service

My thoughts on Elder Snow’s talk “Service”

In a world where we buy our house clean, laundry done, food shopped for, etc. etc. how do we teach our children about service. I’m befuddled and worried. I have lazy children who truly do not know the meaning of hard work or service. I’m truly frightened for them.

An author (I’m too lazy to go look at my book shelf) wrote about the five languages of love. One of them is service. I know that is my predominate way of expressing love and when someone serves me I know they love me. Words are of little meaning. If you love me your will support and serve me. Of course that means that I show my love by service. Therein lies the rub. Not everyone’s primary love language is service. In fact these past few weeks I think I have found one reason my oldest son and I are at odds: his primary love language isn’t service and it is driving me crazy.

As he last line states: “If we fail to serve, we fail to receive the fullness of the privileges and blessings of the restored gospel.”